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Press Releases
Health policy:
Trends and determinants of clinical staff retention in the English NHS: a double retrospective cohort study16 April 2024
Epidemiology:
Association between physical activity over a 10-year period and current insomnia symptoms, sleep duration and daytime sleepiness: a European population-based study26 March 2024
Health policy:
Assessment of quality of data submitted for NICE technology appraisals over two decades13 February 2024
Complementary medicine:
Effect of acupuncture on ischaemic stroke in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide propensity score-matched study13 February 2024
Most Read Articles
Cardiovascular medicine:
Is LDL cholesterol associated with long-term mortality among primary prevention adults? A retrospective cohort study from a large healthcare system28 March 2024
Epidemiology:
Association between physical activity over a 10-year period and current insomnia symptoms, sleep duration and daytime sleepiness: a European population-based study26 March 2024
Cardiovascular medicine:
Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review27 November 2023
Epidemiology:
Association between kimchi consumption and obesity based on BMI and abdominal obesity in Korean adults: a cross-sectional analysis of the Health Examinees study30 January 2024
Health policy:
Assessment of quality of data submitted for NICE technology appraisals over two decades30 March 2024
Mental Health
Mental health:
Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms following exposure to acute psychological trauma in children aged 8–16 years in South Africa: protocol for the Sinethemba longitudinal study11 July 2024
Mental health:
Adaptation and feasibility of WHO PM+ for adolescents living with HIV in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa: an implementation feasibility study protocol9 July 2024
Mental health:
Frameworks describing the transition to open labour employment for persons with mild and moderate intellectual disability: a scoping review protocol9 July 2024
Recent Articles
Oncology:
Cost-effectiveness analysis of rezvilutamide versus bicalutamide in the treatment of metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer13 July 2024
Geriatric medicine:
Demographic, socioeconomic and health determinants of depressive symptoms in adults 50 years and older from Mexico: a secondary data longitudinal analysis from the Mexican Health and Aging Study13 July 2024
Rehabilitation medicine:
EPIC-CP pilot trial study protocol: a multicentre, randomised controlled trial investigating the feasibility and acceptability of social prescribing for Australian children with cerebral palsy13 July 2024
Public health:
Burden of non-communicable diseases among women of reproductive age in Kenya: a cross-sectional study13 July 2024
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