‘Once-weekly semaglutide versus placebo in patients with alcohol use disorder and comorbid obesity: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial’ by Mette Kruse Klausen et al. was published in ...

April 30, 2026 expert reaction to study evaluating performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician . A study published in Science evaluates the perform ...

April 30, 2026 expert reaction to the death of J. Craig Venter . Scientists comment on the death of American scientist Craig Venter. Prof Sir John Hardy, Professor of Neuroscience ...

April 30, 2026 expert reaction to OBSCORE – a tool to identify individuals at highest risk of obesity-related complications . A study published in Nature Medicine looks at a new ...

April 30, 2026 OBSCORE – a tool to identify individuals at highest risk of obesity-related complications . Obesity is a major global health challenge, with 60-70 per cent of adu ...

A randomised controlled trial published in The BMJ looks at accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation (a-cTBS) targeting left primary motor cortex for children with autism spectrum disorder. Prof ...

April 29, 2026 expert reaction to a paper showing associations between prenatal air pollution exposure and altered neurodevelopmental outcomes in early childhood . A study publish ...

April 29, 2026 expert reaction to RCT which looks at semaglutide and motivation in depression . A randomised controlled trial published in JAMA Psychiatry looks at semaglutide use ...

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‘Temporal trends in behavioural risk factors for cancers with rising incidence in younger adults: an analysis of population- based data in England’ by Montserrat Garcia- Closas et al. was published in ...

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