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An international team of scientists have examined data from six studies to examine when teen smokers take up smoking. The researchers are all involved in the Ageing Lungs in European Cohorts (ALEC) study which is co-ordinated by Deborah Jarvis of Imperial College, London. The study was published in PLOS, which is a peer-reviewed journal. It is available to read online...Read More

A team of scientists have studied whether prescribing video game exercises at home could help improve chronic lower back pain. The researchers from the University of Sydney, Australia looked at the benefits of prescribing patients self-managed video games, to be played at home. The study was a randomised, controlled trial and the results were published in Physical Therapy. The abstract...Read More

A team of scientists have developed an online calculator that doctors can use to help predict the risk of return of certain breast cancers, elsewhere in the body. Late distant recurrence of breast cancer is when the the cancer returns in another part of the body, longer than 5 years after the initial diagnosis. 

The online tool has been called Clinical...Read More

A team of US scientists have found that people who develop a common form of skin cancer, may have an increased risk of other forms of cancer in the future. The scientists, from Stanford University School of Medicine in California, published their research in JCI Insight and the article is free to access.

The study recruited 61 patients who were being...Read More

A European team of scientists have found that there is a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease if a patient is taking drugs to lower their cholesterol and blood pressure levels. The team presented the study at European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress, 2018 and also published their findings in The Lancet. An abstract of the study is available to...Read More

At a recent British Medical Association meeting (BMA), the members called for a review of mental health support offered to students, after stories of students’ unmet need were brought to their attention. They called for more research into the types of issues with mental health that medical students face, more training for those who deal with students so that they...Read More