“This updated Cochrane review provides robust evidence that exercise can moderately reduce depressive symptoms in adults compared to no treatment or control interventions, with effects appearing ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis published in the BMJ looks at weight regain after stopping obesity drugs. Prof Jason Halford, Professor of Biological Psychology and Health Behaviours, University ...

What happens to body weight and measures of cardiometabolic health after people stop taking obesity drugs?

“This work is unique in its scale of assessment of food additives in a large number of study participants, and also puts added focus on the recognition by the International Agency for Research on ...

A study published in Neurology looks at the association between high fat cheese and dementia risk. Prof Eef Hogervorst, Professor of Biological Psychology and Director Dementia Research, National ...

Dr Dimitrios Koutoukidis, Associate Professor in Diet, Obesity, and Behavioural Sciences; and dietitian, University of Oxford, said: “Although the study explores an interesting association, it does ...

Dr Charlie Birts, Lecturer in Antibody Therapeutics at the University of Southampton, said: “This is a well-designed and thorough study that provides valuable insight into how metabolic changes during ...

Prof Sir Jonathan Montgomery, Professor of Health Care Law, UCL, said: “Campaigners are challenging the decisions of the Medicines and Health Care products Regulatory Agency and the Health Research ...

Dr Michael Branney, Emeritus Professor of Volcanology, University of Leicester, said: “From the drone & media footage, the canal burst at Whitchurch in Cheshire last night seems to have been a canal ...

Dr Jasmine Khouja, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bath, said: “This article is not a scientific study; the four experts in cardiology who wrote it describe it as an expert review, but no ...

Prof Tom Sanders, Professor emeritus of Nutrition and Dietetics, King’s College London, said: “This is a report of fetal growth and development outcomes in women of mixed ethnicity in the United ...

A study published in the Lancet Public Health looks at oral nicotine pouch use in Great Britain. Prof Peter Hajek, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Health and Lifestyle Research ...