“This updated Cochrane review provides robust evidence that exercise can moderately reduce depressive symptoms in adults compared to no treatment or control interventions, with effects appearing ...

What happens to body weight and measures of cardiometabolic health after people stop taking obesity drugs?

“This work is unique in its scale of assessment of food additives in a large number of study participants, and also puts added focus on the recognition by the International Agency for Research on ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis published in the BMJ looks at weight regain after stopping obesity drugs. Prof Jason Halford, Professor of Biological Psychology and Health Behaviours, University ...

Dr Michael Branney, Emeritus Professor of Volcanology, University of Leicester, said: “From the drone & media footage, the canal burst at Whitchurch in Cheshire last night seems to have been a canal ...

A study published in Neurology looks at the association between high fat cheese and dementia risk. Prof Eef Hogervorst, Professor of Biological Psychology and Director Dementia Research, National ...

Scientists comment on a sperm donor carrying a cancer causing gene mutation used to conceive children. Prof Allan Pacey, Professor of Andrology at the University of Manchester, said: “This is a very ...

Scientists comment on a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announcement that a new mpox strain has been identified in England. Dr Jonas Albarnaz, Institute Fellow, Capripoxvirus Biology, Pirbright ...

Francis Ruiz, Senior Policy Advisor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), said: “The big question is where will the extra money come from? If the Government is committing extra ...

Scientists respond to article published in Nature Medicine exploring the link between weight-loss drugs and food cravings. Dr Simon Cork, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), ...

Prof Adam Finn, Professor of Paediatrics, University of Bristol, said: “There are several current concerns relating to the 2025-26 seasonal flu epidemic. The main one is that it appears to have ...

Prof John Britton, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, University of Nottingham, said: “These figures vindicate UK tobacco policy over the past 15 years, with the transition to vaping leading to ...