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Jul 31, 2024 | 
pavilionhealthtoday.com | Rod Tucker
Patients take omega-3 fish oil supplements in the belief that these oils are heart healthy. But emerging evidence suggests a possible downside and that the benefits are dependent on an individual’s current state of health.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
pavilionhealthtoday.com | Rod Tucker
A good deal of attention has been paid to the potential benefits of limited exposure to sunlight as a means of producing vitamin D and which has a wide range of purported health benefits. This is important from a public health perspective because vitamin D deficiency has become a world-wide concern.
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May 29, 2024 | 
pavilionhealthtoday.com | Rod Tucker
Hypertension is a major cause of premature death. The World Health Organisation1 estimates that hypertension affects 1.28 billion people aged between 30 and 79. Furthermore, with an absence of symptoms, hypertension is a silent killer, leading to approximately 7.5 million global deaths.2Drug treatment is the mainstay of management with a recent meta-analysis3 finding that reducing systolic blood pressure (SBP) by only 5 mmHg, lowered the risk of major cardiovascular events by 10%.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
pavilionhealthtoday.com | Kathy Oxtoby |Kanwaljit Singh |Rod Tucker |Joaquín Casariego
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
hospitalhealthcare.com | Rod Tucker
The recent UK approval of ruxolitinib for the blood cancer polycythaemia vera marks a significant milestone in tackling unmet need for an under-represented patient population. Here, consultant haematologist Professor Claire Harrison speaks to Rod Tucker about ongoing challenges for the condition’s management, how this latest approval will benefit patients and clinicians, and other key research in the pipeline.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
hospitalhealthcare.com | Rod Tucker
The potential for detection of colorectal cancer based on an analysis of the variability in a patient‘s gut microbiome has been highlighted in a study presented at United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Week. The findings come from the Dutch microbiome project, which is a large-scale studying involving 8,208 participants.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
hospitalhealthcare.com | Rod Tucker
Air pollution contains particulate matter that can carry antibiotic resistance genes, which have been found to accelerate microbial threats to human health. Here, Rod Tucker considers the extent to which air pollution could serve as a primary vector and driving force behind the increasing levels of global antibiotic resistance. There‘s no doubt that global antibiotic resistance represents a major health challenge and is responsible for a huge number of deaths.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
hospitalhealthcare.com | Rod Tucker
Tobacco dependency and e-cigarettes are never far from the headlines, and while progress is being made across the UK, there’s still a long way to go to ensure a consistent approach to smoking cessation support in secondary care. Here, Dr Zaheer Mangera, respiratory consultant at North Middlesex University Hospital, speaks to clinical writer Rod Tucker and shares his insights and advice around best practice.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
hospitalpharmacyeurope.com | Rod Tucker |Helena Beer
The psychological burden and subsequent impact on quality of life of skin diseases such as acne, hidradenitis suppurativa and urticaria has been revealed in a large pan-European study published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV).
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
hospitalhealthcare.com | Rod Tucker
Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) causes more global deaths than melanoma, despite its lower severity, and dark skin phenotypes were found to be at risk, according to research presented at the recent European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress 2023.
