Patterns of medication use across society from national primary care dispensing data
Between 1 November 2019 and 31 December 2024, we identified 5.8 billion prevalent medications dispensed to a population…
Implications of wait times for sentinel node biopsy on melanoma disease progression, micrometastatic tumour burden and survival outcomes in the modern treatment era
The data confirms that our service began to struggle to achieve a waiting time of 90 days or…
Study maps biological pathways of weed killer during pregnancy
Exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in many weed killers, was linked to changes in several hormones that…
Study: Antibiotic resistance is increasing in Shiga toxin-producing E. coli
Resistance to antimicrobial agents is rising among human infections with Escherichia coli bacteria that produce the Shiga toxin,…
Anti-Vax Dating Apps Are Going IRL. People Are Mad as Hell About It
As a crowd of 60 anti-vaxxers squeezed into the upstairs dining area of Jonathan’s Grille in Nashville on…
Symptoms of respiratory illness in wind players and their relationship to instrument hygiene
Rusu, H. Z., Mutlu, H. B., Kilic, V., Poyraz, N. & Eryilmaz, H. Bacteria found in brasswind instruments:…
How an AI system learned to write expert-level scientific code
A new study shows how ERA combines large language models with tree search to rapidly build expert-level research…
Does the PSA test for prostate cancer save lives? New data reverse gold-standard findings
Prostate cancer (cells, artificially coloured) affected 1.5 million people worldwide in 2022.Credit: Dr Gopal Murti/Science Photo Library Does…
Sleep linked to slower ageing: huge study pinpoints the right amount
Getting roughly 6 to 8 hours of sleep each day has been linked with a longer life —…
Impact of daylight saving time on physical activity patterns
Rep. Buchanan, V. R-F.-16. 119th Congress (2025–2026). H.R.139: Sunshine Protection Act of 2025. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/139 (2025). De Lange, M.…
Economic burden of falls for 190 countries and territories from 2020 to 2050 based on health-augmented macroeconomic modelling
GBD 2021 Demographics Collaborators. Global age–sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and…
Alzheimer’s monoclonal antibodies fail to deliver meaningful results
Despite successfully removing amyloid plaques from the brain, widely anticipated antibody therapies fail to deliver meaningful cognitive improvements,…