For ages, doctors have used BMI (Body Mass Index) — the simple calculation of weight and height — to judge whether someone is ...
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Many within Labour fear that the Prime Minister will never be able to escape the shadow of Peter Mandelson ...
In the latest in our CPD series, nurse kidney specialist Gloria Munoz–Figueroa explains the principles of sustainable chronic ...
While the labour movement often seems at its lowest ebb, what Marx identified as capitalism’s main internal contradiction – ...
When researchers pooled data from six major clinical trials of semaglutide, the drug behind Ozempic and Wegovy, they found ...
The new device uses sound waves to gather blood pressure data from blood vessels, monitoring the response with ultrasound. The new technique, called resonance sonomanometry, holds the promise to ...
Love, pain, joy, fear, desire: the full spectrum of emotion resides in facial expression. We grasp this almost intuitively. However, we still lack a quantifiable understanding of the nuanced ...
Blood pressure sits at the centre of heart health – one of the most common risk factors for cardiovascular disease, yet also one of the most controllable. That dual reality makes it especially ...
In their recent Viewpoint, Frieden and colleagues argue that mass blood pressure screening diverts resources from improving hypertension care. We present a counterargument that community-based blood ...