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Researchers track how microbiome bacteria adapt to humans via transmission

Beneficial bacteria in the gut microbiome use different means to transmit from one person to another which impacts their abundance in the gut and the functions they provide, new research has found. [...]

Reducing antibiotic use in primary care may be insufficient alone to curtail antimicrobial resistance

The first evaluation of NHS England's Quality Premium intervention on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The Quality Premium scheme was introduced in 2015 and rewarded groups of general practitioners (GPs) for improvements in quality of care, including reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in primary care. [...]

Help me tell people about Healthy Start scheme to give kids a chance, Marcus Rashford urges health professionals

The celebrated international footballer and child food poverty campaigner, Marcus Rashford, has called on healthcare professionals to help spread the word about a government scheme designed to give young children in low-income households in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland a nutritious start in life. [...]

Should COVID-19 vaccination be mandatory for health and care staff?

Italy, France, and Greece have made COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for healthcare workers, and England is making it compulsory for care home workers and consulting on whether to extend this to healthcare workers and other social care staff. Experts debate in The BMJ whether frontline health and social care workers should be compelled to take up the vaccine, if efforts to encourage them fail. [...]

Increasingly poor physical function from age 65 linked to increased risk of death

Increasing poor physical (motor) function from around age 65 is associated with an increased risk of death, finds research published by The BMJ today. [...]

Low glycaemic diet shows meaningful improvements for people with diabetes

For people with diabetes, sticking to a low glycaemic diet results in small but important improvements in blood sugar levels, cholesterol, weight and other risk factors, finds a study published by The BMJ today. [...]

Full-dose blood thinners reduce need for organ support in moderately ill COVID patients

A large clinical trial conducted worldwide shows that treating moderately ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients with a full-dose blood thinner reduced their need for organ support, such as mechanical ventilation, and improved their chances of leaving the hospital. However, the use of this treatment strategy for critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring intensive care did not result in the same outcomes. The formal conclusions from the trial, which was supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, appear online in The New England Journal of Medicine. [...]

WHO 'deeply concerned' by Long Covid

With nearly 200 million people known to have had COVID-19, the WHO said Wednesday it was deeply concerned by the unknown numbers who may still be suffering with Long COVID. [...]

Hotels become hospitals as Cuba battles soaring COVID cases

Cuba's hot spot for COVID-19 infections has shifted to the central province of Ciego de Avila, where officials are converting hotels into hospitals. [...]

Scaling the model of care for patients with opioid use disorder

Data show that concurrent with the opioid overdose crisis, there has been an increase in hospitalizations of people with opioid use disorder (OUD). One in ten of these hospitalized medical or surgical patients have comorbid opioid-related diagnoses. [...]