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Press Releases
Epidemiology:
Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and hospital admission burden in Scotland: 16 year prospective population cohort study18 December 2024
Public health:
Exploration of fathers’ mental health and well-being concerns during the transition to fatherhood, and paternal perinatal support: scoping review12 November 2024
Public health:
Health impact of urban green spaces: a systematic review of heat-related morbidity and mortality22 October 2024
General practice / Family practice:
The changing shape of English general practice: a retrospective longitudinal study using national datasets describing trends in organisational structure, workforce and recorded appointments3 September 2024
Occupational and environmental medicine:
Investigating sustainability in work after participating in a welfare-to-work initiative using a 2-year cohort study of Work Programme participants in Scotland22 August 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
Communication:
How does communication affect patient safety? Protocol for a systematic review and logic model27 May 2024
Pharmacology and therapeutics:
Low-dose naltrexone for post-COVID fatigue syndrome: a study protocol for a double-blind, randomised trial in British Columbia13 May 2024
Mental Health
Mental health:
KindMap: an e-mental health tool to promote the well-being and mental health of people facing infertility—study protocol for a feasibility randomised control trial9 December 2024
Mental health:
Young people’s sense of agency and responsibility towards promoting mental health in Brazil: a reflexive thematic analysis7 December 2024
Mental health:
Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial of the effects of near-infrared spectroscopy neurofeedback training coupled with virtual reality technology in children with ADHD7 December 2024
Recent Articles
Public health:
Identifying essential resource parameters for pandemic preparedness and response: an international Delphi study within the EU PANDEM-2 project16 December 2024
Epidemiology:
Factors associated with preterm birth and mother-to-child transmission in HIV-positive pregnant women in Henan, China, 2016-2022: a retrospective cohort study16 December 2024
Diabetes and endocrinology:
Characterisation of type 2 diabetes subgroups at diagnosis: the COPERNICAN prospective observational cohort study protocol16 December 2024
General practice / Family practice:
Assessing the acceptability to general practitioners of the French College of General Medicines recommendations on considering patients social situations: a Delphi study16 December 2024
Rehabilitation medicine:
Comprehensive spinal correction rehabilitation (CSCR) study: a randomised controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness of CSCR in children with early-onset idiopathic scoliosis on spinal deformity, somatic appearance, functional status and quality of life in Shanghai, China16 December 2024
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