A multiyear study of midlife women found that both age and reproductive stage influence how anger is experienced, with older women reporting more control but less expression of anger over time.
Institutional bias in the NHS is harming patient outcomes and staff wellbeing—and political and organizational action is long overdue, according to a new analysis published as part of The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS.
Researchers find that hearing aids and cochlear implants improve social quality of life and reduce perceived social handicap in adults with hearing loss.
The UK hospital study of over 80,000 patients found that certain opioids, including morphine and oxycodone, carried a higher risk of severe constipation compared with others.
A study of over 24,000 patients identified four common diagnostic paths that lead to Alzheimer’s disease, with multi-step sequences posing higher risk than single conditions and showing reproducibility in a national validation cohort.
Scientists engineered E. coli to perform a synthetic chemical reaction that enables the conversion of plastic waste into the common drug paracetamol using a non-toxic, phosphate-driven process inside living cells.
Deprescribing interventions reduce the number of medications taken by older adults but show no clear effect on hospitalization, mortality, or quality of life—and appear to be safe.
A large Danish study found that newborns with early-onset sepsis had a higher chance of developing autism later in life, while the link to ADHD was weaker when familial factors were considered.