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Making sense of the widening gender mental health gap: what teenage girls told us

Women experience greater low mood and anxiety than men. This longstanding gender mental health gap reflects a complicated mix of biological, psychological, social, and sociocultural factors – though we are still far from fully understanding it.

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How blast waves can damage the brain without a head injury

An explosion does not need to strike the head to injure the brain. When a blast occurs, it generates a sudden pressure wave that can pass through the body and skull in milliseconds, potentially deforming brain tissue and blood vessels along the way.

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Public healthcare and contracting out: can it work? Global review presents some answers

Universal health coverage – ensuring everyone can get quality, affordable healthcare when they need it – is one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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NHS to trial potentially life-saving treatment for deadly liver disease

Acute-on-chronic liver failure will be treated with device that cleans patients’ blood corrupted by toxins

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Cannabis dependence is rising in England and Wales – but treatment is lagging

Cannabis dependence is on the rise, according to the latest data on drug use and dependence published by NHS England.

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What looks like ‘overdiagnosis’ is really a system struggling to provide continuous care

After waiting more than a year to see an NHS specialist, Sam’s assessment for ADHD took less than two hours. It happened over video, involved a short checklist and brief history, and ended with a swift decision.

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Minority ethnic women in the UK face economic abuse at twice the rate of white women. These are their experiences

Economic abuse may not be as obvious as physical abuse, but for the millions of people it affects in the UK, economic abuse can be totally devastating.

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Man who battled depression hails outdoor swimming for changing his life

Richard Williams had survived a suicide attempt when a talk with a friend led him to joining a study exploring the impact of cold water on depression.

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‘I wish I had taken part sooner’: how a medical trial transformed a young person’s life

Exclusive: Gulliver Waite signed up after antidepressants and talking therapies failed to alleviate clinical depression

The Guardian - UK

Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds

Upgraded medical tool can diagnose heart failure, heart valve disease and abnormal heart rhythms

The Guardian - UK

Elderly people being excluded from medical research in UK, charities warn

The exclusion of older people from research due to arbitrary age cut-offs could stall the development of life-saving treatments

The Guardian - UK

Obesity care: why “eat less, move more” advice is failing

For years, people living with obesity have been given the same basic advice: eat less, move more. But while this mantra may sound simple, it’s not only ineffective for many, it can be deeply misleading and damaging.

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Signing up for clinical trials to be new feature on NHS App

Eventually the app will automatically match patients with studies based on their own interests and health data.

Evening Standard

How mindfulness therapy could help those left behind by depression treatment

For some people, depression is like an unwanted guest who moves in and refuses to leave. Even with therapy and medication, the heavy fog of low mood, exhaustion and hopelessness never fully lifts for long. For around 30% of people with depression, this is a daily reality.

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Do people really want to know their risk of getting Alzheimer’s?

A new study has highlighted the complex emotions and ethical dilemmas of learning your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Among 274 healthy research participants from the US aged 65 and over, 40% declined to receive their personal risk estimates – despite having initially expressed an interest in doing so.

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Dementia care: are terms of endearment like ‘sweetheart’ comforting or condescending?

In the emotionally complex world of dementia care, communication is more than just what we say – it’s how we say it. Terms of endearment like “darling”, “my lovely” and “sweetheart” are often used by healthcare staff with the best intentions: to comfort, connect and show warmth. But some people…

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New blood test trial offers ‘exciting new era in cancer detection’

The laboratory will house leading scientists conducting ‘cutting-edge’ research and could be used in the NHS

Evening Standard

New NHS blood test can pick up 12 types of cancers

Scientists are assessing a blood test which can detect 12 different cancers

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Wes Streeting announces landmark trial to harness AI to speed up breast cancer screening

The trial, if successful, could free up more specialists to help reduce wait times

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How people with eating disorders are negatively affected by calories on menus

If you have recently been to a restaurant or cafe, you may have noticed calorie information displayed on the menu for each item. This is one example of so called “out-of-home” nutritional labels, referring to any food and drink bought outside the home which is not already prepackaged. Several countries…

The Independent UK

World-first vaccine for vomiting bug norovirus trialled in the UK

The jab uses mRNA technology to tell the immune system to recognise a ‘foreign’ protein on viruses and mount an attack.

The Independent UK

Rare and aggressive skin cancer initially dismissed as verruca on pregnant mum

Tests revealed that Beatrice Buckley had stage three acral melanoma

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UK teenagers get two-thirds of their calories from ultra-processed foods – new study

Humans have been processing food for thousands of years. While some processing can increase food’s safety and shelf-life, consuming lots of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is linked to health issues such as obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

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How do we know the UK’s sugar tax is working?

The soft drinks industry levy came into effect in the UK in early 2018. The first study to investigate the effect of this “sugar tax” on individual-level consumption has just been published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The headline finding is that adults reduced their daily added…

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NHS: six key challenges facing the Labour government

In 1997, Tony Blair’s election “pledge card” included a promise to cut NHS waiting lists, then totalling 1.16 million. Keir Starmer’s “first steps for change” include a similar pledge to cut waiting times, but his task is on a different scale, with 7.5 million people currently awaiting treatment. How did…

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