Category: Health

The greatest jump in ADHD diagnoses was seen in children. Studio Romantic/ Shutterstock Diagnoses for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have increased in many countries across all age groups, our latest review has found. We have also shown that prescriptions for ADHD treatments have seen similar increases across all age groups. Our latest review, published […]

VH-studio/Shutterstock Vitamins in pregnancy are usually discussed in terms of a baby’s health at birth. But could the amount of vitamin D taken during pregnancy also influence how a child’s brain works many years later? A recent Danish study suggests that it might. Children whose mothers received a higher dose of vitamin D during late […]

Igogosha/Shutterstock Prime Minister Andy Burnham has argued that parliament should wait before returning to assisted dying until palliative and social care are properly funded. His intervention comes before MPs are due to debate a new assisted-dying bill for England and Wales on September 11. Public debate often centres on people with terminal illnesses who are […]

Many describe a runner's high as a feeling of 'euphoria.' Prostock-studio/ Shutterstock While most runners are chasing after a new goal or a personal best, some are chasing after something slightly more elusive: a runner’s high. Some describe it as euphoria. Others as calm, clarity or even a sense of being completely absorbed in the […]

Towfiqu ahamed barbhuiya/ Shutterstock Around 78% of people who are living with HIV take a daily pill to manage their infection. These drugs work by preventing the HIV virus from multiplying. Although these drugs are very effective, some people struggle to stick with the daily regimen. There are many reasons for this – including pill […]

Mialcas/Shutterstock.com Close the door, shut the windows and turn up the heating, and you have all the ingredients for a sick bedroom in your home – and you spend about eight hours in there every night. Kitchens and bathrooms usually take the blame for stale air and damp. But researchers spent a winter monitoring airtight, […]

SeventyFour/Shutterstock.com Modern medicine increasingly judges itself by long-term outcomes. In cancer care, we routinely compare treatments according to whether patients survive longer. In cardiology, we ask whether interventions prevent future heart attacks and extend life. This long-term data allows healthcare to continually improve. Child and adolescent mental health services are different. Long-term outcomes have received […]

l i g h t p o e t/Shutterstock You can spend every day surrounded by other people and still feel lonely. You can also spend long periods alone without finding the experience distressing. That difference may help explain why loneliness affects health differently from social isolation. In a new study, my colleagues and I […]

VH-studio/Shutterstock.com Take a medicine and start feeling a bit off, and it’s easy to assume you’re imagining it. Sometimes you’re not. It could be a known side-effect – the sort of thing listed on the leaflet in the packaging. Or it could be something known as an adverse drug reaction, or ADR. The terms get […]

Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com On an average day, around one in ten hospital beds in England are occupied by someone medically fit to leave, but unable to do so because the care they need at home is not available. At an estimated cost of £562 per hospital bed per day, this costs £2.7 billion a year. Pressure is […]