The American Heart Association advisory warns that ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) are linked to serious health issues, including heart attack and stroke, and calls for policy changes and more research.
The UK Government is creating GP league tables which will measure "appropriate levels" of face-to-face appointments - those failing to hit quotas will not receive NHS funding.
The University of Oxford found that teenagers with depression "mute" upsetting information, while depressed adults do not have the same coping mechanism.
Here, Paddy Hanrahan, Strategy & Innovation Director at Helpforce, tackles five major misconceptions around volunteering for the NHS, setting the facts from fiction.
The 150-page Health and Social Committee report says the UK Government "ultimately failed" to establish a working Test and Trace system - which led to thousands of COVID deaths.
Targeted neuromodulation may be a future method to help those with severe, untreatable depression - traditionally, this is used to correct misfiring brain circuits in people with epilepsy or Parkinson's.
The "COVID pill" by Merck, found to halve virus hospitalisation and death rates, will be sold in the US at $712 per treatment - while costing $17.74 to produce.
Experts Diane Bunn, Ellice Parkinson and Lee Hooper discuss the problem of dehydration particularly in care homes, first of all asking us to grab a coffee, tea, water, or juice before reading on...
We reflect on the work of the Molecular and Cellular Biosciences division (MCB), especially in context of the “complex biological web” of a global pandemic.
The study, published in The Lancet, finds that two doses of the Pfizer vaccine are 90% efficient for six months - decreasing to 47% after that time period.
New research suggests that regular walks can change brain structure - a team of scientists noticed changes in the prefrontal cortex, which improved participant concentration and memory.
