Women also use drugs – not that you can tell from drug policy

Nov 27, 2017 14:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

In the UK, men are more likely to try drugs than women and they significantly outnumber women in accessing treatment, reinforcing the view that male drug use is the norm. But there are limitations with the way drug use is...

Surgeons and the opioid crisis: We need prescription guidelines

Nov 22, 2017 02:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Of all the possible ways of alleviating the opioid crisis, one has so far garnered far less attention than it deserves: prescription guidelines for surgeons. Surgeons are the third-biggest prescribers of opioids, often...

The public's knowledge of anatomy is sketchy – here's why it matters

Nov 08, 2017 16:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

British people dont seem to know their armpit from their elbow. Our latest study found that only 15% of the participants could locate their adrenal glands, and only 20% knew where their spleen and gallbladder...

Counselling doesn't work in the long term

Nov 08, 2017 15:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Person-centred counselling is one of the most popular treatments for mental health problems. Often just shortened to counselling, the approach focuses on how patients view themselves in the here and now, rather than how a...

3 things I learned from delivering medical aid to a remote part of Puerto Rico

Nov 07, 2017 06:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

I belong to a group called Doctors for Puerto Rico. We have been dispatching medicine and small teams of medical staff to the island, in coordination with local health authorities since two-and-a-half weeks after...

The long, strange history of dieting fads

Nov 07, 2017 06:02 am UTC| Health

Of all the parasites that affect humanity I do not know of, nor can I imagine, any more distressing than that of Obesity. So started William Bantings Letter on Corpulence, likely the first diet book ever published....

Three proven psychological treatments for young people that need to be funded

Nov 03, 2017 07:44 am UTC| Health

From the first of November Australians living in rural and remote areas will be eligible to receive Medicare rebates for psychological treatments delivered in part via video conferencing. This is a step in the right...