His 2014 book, The Body Keeps the Score, has become a huge pandemic hit, topping bestseller lists this summer and becoming a meme on social media. What does it tell us about the world we live in?When Dr Bessel van der Kolk published The Body Keeps the …
UK psychiatry chief urges funds to tackle mental health backlog
Pandemic has had catastrophic impact and risks wiping out years of progress, college leader warnsThe “catastrophic” impact of the pandemic on mental health could wipe out years of progress unless there is a significant injection of cash, the president …
Folic acid to be added to non-wholemeal flour under new UK rules
Fortification of flour is a public health policy known to reduce neural tube defects in babiesFolic acid is to be added to the most commonly consumed flours in the UK to help prevent spinal conditions in babies, the government has announced.Doctors adv…
Gordon Brown calls for urgent action to avert ‘Covid vaccine waste disaster’
More than 100m doses could be discarded by December if global leaders do not share jabs with poorest countries, warns former PMMore than 100m Covid vaccine doses are due to expire and be “thrown away” unless global leaders urgently share surplus suppli…
Depression is not a one-size-fits-all condition – we need a more nuanced approach | Sidney Bloch
Feelings of sadness are ubiquitous but the concept of depression is ill-defined – and the risk is medication being inappropriately prescribedThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workNot a week …
Doctor ‘bias’ behind women getting worse treatment for heart attacks, Australian study finds
Researchers say care for a common type of heart attack differs between men and women ‘every step of the way’Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingWomen receive worse medical treatment than men for common heart attacks, according to new r…
Scottish Covid vaccine trialists ‘treated like second-class citizens’
Novavax volunteers fear start of vaccine passports next month could put them at further disadvantageScottish vaccine volunteers are being treated like “second-class citizens” while waiting for the Novavax jab to be approved, an MSP has said, as they co…
‘Highly effective’ ovarian cancer treatment could help thousands of women
New drug combination shrunk tumours significantly in 46% of patients with treatment-resistant form of disease Thousands of women with ovarian cancer could benefit from a revolutionary drug combination after it was shown to shrink tumours in half of pat…
Health ‘levelling up’ will flop if cuts are not reversed, Javid told
Exclusive: Ministers must restore public health funding after decade of cuts, world expert Michael Marmot to saySajid Javid’s vow to “level up health” will fail unless the government reverses a decade of cuts to public health, one of the world’s leadin…
Use of 10p statins in organ donation ‘could save thousands of lives’
Exclusive: NHS launching large trial of approach that could boost number of transplants and their success rateThousands of lives could be saved globally by giving patients a 10p statin before transplants, doctors have said, as the NHS launches the worl…