Medical panels are constantly lowering thresholds across many diseases, which results in more and more healthy people being diagnosed as sick.
José Martín/Unsplash
More of us are labelled as sick with the constantly changing diagnostic cut-offs for diseases. Now an international expert panel has drafted a list of things to consider before setting new thresholds.
How can we help the one in three people in hospital end-of-life care who suffer from delirium?
from www.shutterstock.com
Food, drug and other companies often sponsor research in the hope it might produce results favourable to their products. How can we ensure such research remains independent?
Resveratrol, found in cocoa and red wine among other things, is just one of hundreds of potential health-promoting components in food.
Kate Ware/Flickr
Nutrition research often loses sight of the wood for the trees by focusing on a single component of food. The latest example of this comes from a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine today that shows…