Health
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Health Children Trafficked to the US: A Doctor Asks What Medicine Can Do
A perspective essay in the New England Journal of Medicine raises the question of what the US medical community owes to child victims of…
26 September 2026 -
Health Blood-Thinning Drugs and Stroke Risk: What a New AF Trial Found
A major randomised trial has examined whether blood-thinning medication should be routinely offered to atrial fibrillation patients…
26 September 2026 -
Health American Science Under Strain, Says New England Journal of Medicine
A new Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that 20 months of political turmoil have caused lasting damage to…
25 September 2026 -
Health Rare Blood Disorder Carries High Cancer Risk, Major Study Finds
A large international study has found that people with Shwachman–Diamond syndrome face a high risk of developing myeloid blood cancer, and…
25 September 2026 -
Health Children’s Health Needs a System Fix, Not Just a Symptom Fix, Say Researchers
A new perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that improving child health requires redesigning the environments…
24 September 2026 -
Health Lung Cancer Screening Evidence Reviewed in Major International Update
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has published its 21st handbook, summarising what the latest evidence shows about the…
24 September 2026 -
Health Oral HRT Linked to Higher Blood Clot Risk — Skin Patches Show No Such Effect, Study Finds
A study published in the BMJ has found that taking menopausal hormone therapy by mouth is associated with a greater risk of blood clots…
24 September 2026 -
Health Seeing the Person, Not Just the Patient Record
A piece in the BMJ argues that medical notes can describe a patient’s condition but can never capture what it actually feels like to be…
23 September 2026 -
Health Three Long Covid Trials Offer Hope as New Research Findings Emerge
Two out of three recent randomised trials for long Covid have shown promising results, according to a new blog post published by the New…
23 September 2026 - Health
NHS-Galleri Blood Test Trial Finds No Significant Reduction in Late-Stage Cancer Diagnoses
A large-scale NHS trial of a blood test designed to catch multiple cancers early found that it did not much cut the number of late-stage…
23 September 2026 -
Health New Drug Trial Shows Promise for Lupus Patients
The New England Journal of Medicine has published findings from the ALLEGORY trial, examining whether adding obinutuzumab to standard…
22 September 2026 -
Health Martha’s Rule to Cover All England Emergency Departments
The patient safety initiative that lets families demand an urgent medical review is being extended to every emergency department in England…
22 September 2026