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Tackling NHS crisis: Experts call for immediate £8.5 billion yearly cash injection

The NHS needs an immediate cash injection of around £8.5bn a year over the next four years to make up a £32bn shortfall in funding and help tackle the current crisis, especially in areas such as waiting times, access to primary care, workforce and capital investment, say experts in the second report of The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS.

21 Mar 2024

Sugar tax shows sweet results in cutting obesity and diabetes rates

Study finds national SSB taxation linked to reduced obesity, overweight, and diabetes rates, particularly among children, suggesting effectiveness of tax policies in improving public health outcomes.

29 Feb 2024

Transforming global food system could unlock trillions in economic gains

The Food System Economics Commission's study reveals transforming global food systems could yield economic gains of up to $10 trillion annually, with implementation costs being a fraction of global GDP.

31 Jan 2024

Experts urge new government to declare a national health and care emergency

The government in post after the election should declare a national health and care emergency, calling on all parts of society to help improve health, care, and wellbeing, say experts in the first report of The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS.

31 Jan 2024

Overweight, not just obesity, drives higher healthcare costs, Norwegian study finds

A study at NTNU shows that while individual healthcare costs are highest for obese individuals, the overall societal costs are greater for the larger number of overweight people, highlighting the need for population-level health measures.

14 Dec 2023

Study points to binge drinking and genetics as key factors in liver disease

Those who binge drink and have a certain genetic makeup are six times more likely to develop alcohol-related cirrhosis, according to new research from UCL, the Royal Free Hospital, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.

14 Dec 2023

Germany's potential billions in savings and health gains with sugar-sweetened beverage tax

A recent study in the journal PLoS Medicine examines the potential impact of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation in Germany. The research suggests that implementing a 20% tax on SSBs could lead to reduced sugar consumption, significant health benefits, and substantial societal savings, especially when extended to include fruit juices.

26 Nov 2023

Tiered tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Germany could extend healthy lifespans and save billions

In Germany, taxing sugar-sweetened beverages could prevent or postpone cases of type 2 diabetes, extend healthy lifespans and save up to €16.0 billion in societal costs over the next 20 years, according to a new study led by Karl Emmert-Fees of the Technical University of Munich, published November 21st in the open access journal PLOS Medicine.

21 Nov 2023

Diverse plant-based diets emerge as key to combating non-communicable diseases and climate change

The health and environmental benefits conferred by plant-based diets.

10 Nov 2023

Can artificial intelligence transform public health nutrition?

Researchers described the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to population well-being and nutrition.

11 Oct 2023

New report forecasts growing health and economic impacts from stroke between 2020 and 2050

Unless urgent action is taken, the number of people who die from stroke globally is estimated to increase by 50% by 2050 to 9.7 million deaths per year, with annual costs as high as US$2.3 trillion possible, according to a new report on pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke: a World Stroke Organization–Lancet Neurology Commission.

9 Oct 2023

What is the association between soft drink consumption and prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents?

Daily soft drink consumption is strongly associated with overweight and obesity.

31 Jul 2023

Everything old is new again? The latest round of health policy proposals reprises existing ideas

Forget "repeal and replace," an oft-repeated Republican rallying cry against the Affordable Care Act.

24 Jul 2023

Global study: children's lack of vegetable and fruit consumption linked to wealth and maternal factors

Researchers reviewed demographic and health surveys between 2006–2020 at the global scale.

3 Jul 2023

Increasing numbers of doctors in England and Wales are opting to take voluntary early retirement

Increasing numbers of doctors are opting to take voluntary early retirement, rather than waiting to claim their pension at retirement age, official figures show.

28 Jun 2023

Smart drugs fall short as cognitive function enhancers

A recent Science Advances study investigated the effectiveness of three popular smart drugs, namely, modafinil (MOD), methylphenidate (MPH), and dextroamphetamine (DEX), against the difficulty of real-life daily tasks, i.e., the 0-1 knapsack optimization problem (“knapsack task”). A knapsack task is basically a combinatorial optimization task, the class of NP-time challenging problems.

18 Jun 2023

The effects of alcohol taxation, minimum unit pricing, and restricted temporal availability on overall alcohol consumption

Researchers estimate the impact of three main alcohol control policies on alcohol consumption levels.

26 May 2023