Objective About 90% of eye health problems are preventable or curable with existing cost-effective interventions. There is ...

Objectives We aimed to determine the prevalence and factors affecting antenatal anxiety (AA) among Sri Lankan women. Design We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of first trimester data from a ...

Introduction Paradoxical intention (PI) is an insomnia treatment developed in the 1970s, which instructs patients to gently attempt to remain awake while in bed at night with the lights off. Previous ...

Cohort profile: a nationwide study in Dutch CHEK2 c.1100delC families using the infrastructure of the HEreditary Breast and Ovarian cancer study Netherlands – Hebon-CHEK2 ...

Introduction Although the disclosure of medical errors is an integral component of medical ethics, it remains inconsistent in practice worldwide. Despite various explanations of why healthcare ...

Introduction In western countries, early visiting services (EVS) have been proposed as a recent intervention to reduce both general practitioner workload and hospital admissions among housebound ...

Health is more than the absence of disease. It is also more than a biological phenomenon. It is inherently social, psychological, cultural and historical. While this has been recognised by major ...

1 NDORMS (Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences), Kadoorie Centre, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK 2 NDORMS (Nuffield Department of ...

2 School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Objective To investigate whether reported fast-food consumption over the previous year is associated with higher ...

Objectives Although cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and pharmacotherapy are equally effective in the acute treatment of adult depression, it is not known how they compare across the longer term. In ...

Objectives Evidence comparing the effectiveness of surgical and conservative treatment of symptomatic lumbar disc herniation is controversial. We sought to compare short-term and long-term ...

Objective Statins are commonly prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs. Preclinical studies suggest that statins may possess cancer preventive properties. The primary objective of this meta-analysis was ...