Expert Comment
NICE Hypertension Guidelines for adults: what is new? Professor Francesco Cappuccio comments
"This is not only a missed opportunity to improve the management of hypertension in people with the highest risk, but a challenge for the implementation of the guideline in primary care."
Dr Raquel Nunes highlights the problems with extreme weather advice
Dr Raquel Nunes, Senior Research Fellow at Warwick Medical School, discusses the problems with extreme weather advice and outlines improvements to public health guidance on how to stay cool during the heatwave that the UK is currently experiencing.
Dr James Gill comments on report that 1 in 10 hospital inpatients are alcohol dependent
A new report suggesting that 1 in 10 hospital inpatients are alcohol dependent has been published today, but Dr James Gill, Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Warwick and a Locum GP, argues that to we need to ask why alcohol is such a feature in an individual’s life.
Expert comment: fibre and wholegrains important for longterm health
Dr Oyinlola Oyebode, Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School, comments on new research findings confirming that fibre and whole-grain intakes are important for longer term health.
Felicity Boardman on the claims of the world’s first gene-edited babies
Expert on genetic technologies from Warwick Medical School, Dr Felicity Boardman, comments on the claims by a Chinese scientist that the world's first genetically edited babies have been created.