Evidence-based health, medicine and wellbeing you can actually use.
Musculoskeletal problems fill a fifth of GP consultations, and the system now routes many of them straight to physiotherapists, while the…
Resistant infections already kill more than a million people a year worldwide, and the causes and defences run through everyday…
Menopause symptoms push a measurable number of experienced women out of work each year, and the legal and practical tools for keeping them…
The NHS dental contract pays practices in units that can make health-service work loss-making, and the exodus it caused explains the…
Millions work while their circadian clock says sleep, and although biology cannot be fully overridden, evidence supports specific tactics…
UK latitude makes winter sunlight useless for vitamin D synthesis, which is why official advice recommends a small daily dose through the…
GP surgeries have moved from first-come booking to clinical triage of every request, a change driven by workforce arithmetic that patients…
High blood pressure is the most treatable major risk factor for heart attack and stroke, yet millions carry it undiagnosed because it…
The waiting list counts treatment pathways rather than people, and understanding how patients enter, move along and leave it explains why…
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