Objective To analyze mortality attributed to Alzheimer’s disease among taxi drivers and ambulance drivers, occupations that ...

Objective To evaluate the cognitive abilities of the leading large language models and identify their susceptibility to cognitive impairment, using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and ...

Credit: Rowena Sheehan Far too many people dying and grieving remain undersupported and feared. Dying is “as natural and inevitable a transition as birth,” says Lucy Selman, an expert in dying and ...

Fairy tales offer opportunities to engage with children about healthy and disordered sleep, say Megan Thomas and colleagues Healthy sleep is a public health priority, with at least a third of children ...

Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why. Epidemiological information is used to plan and evaluate strategies to prevent illness and as a guide to ...

The UK government has announced plans to introduce a league table of NHS providers, with rewards for the leaders.1 Managers get more pay for better performance, but what do all the staff get who do ...

The selective noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor atomoxetine and stimulants (amphetamines and methylphenidate) are the “most effective treatments” for managing the symptoms of attention ...

Despite growing public interest in death, support for end-of-life care and bereavement remains inadequate. We urgently need a community centred, public health approach to the social processes of dying ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put on hold all respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine trials involving infants (aged under 2 years) or RSV naive children aged 2-5 years, after a ...

With vaccination rates against respiratory illnesses continuing to decline among healthcare staff, Emma Wilkinson examines what’s behind the trend and efforts to tackle it Flu hit early this year, and ...

“Is this disease increasing in incidence? Does it occur with undue frequency in my local community? Does its incidence correlate with some suspected cause? Has the outcome changed since control ...

A new approach for teaching clinical skills At the heart of the practice of medicine is the tenet “to do good or to do no harm.”1 Fundamental to achieving this objective is continuing professional ...