by John McMillan | May 29, 2026 | Health
Helen Pearson, UCL In 1959, a young doctor named David Sackett stumbled on a clinical trial that would change his life – and most of ours. The study showed that conventional wisdom on bed rest in medicine was wrong. And it helped lead Sackett and others to develop...
by John McMillan | May 29, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philip McMillan, John McMillan Cancer rates after the pandemic should be falling. In many cases they are not. During the pandemic, a cancer diagnosis made severe or fatal COVID outcomes much more likely. Many patients who would otherwise be filling oncology...
by John McMillan | May 22, 2026 | COVID-19
Bruce Y. Lee, City University of New York and Hannah Dimmick, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Public Policy Headlines on long COVID have become much more rare than during the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic. But that doesn’t...
by John McMillan | May 22, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philip McMillan, John McMillan Something has shifted in the rhythm of public health news. Open any headline aggregator over the past month and the litany reads like the table of contents of a virology textbook. Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nipah...
by John McMillan | May 15, 2026 | Cancer
Ahmed Elbediwy, Kingston University and Nadine Wehida, Kingston University We’ve all heard the advice: eat your fruit and vegetables, get your vitamins, and stay healthy. For the most part, that guidance holds up. But some nutrients have a more complicated story, and...
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