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Skin cancers are the most common cancer in England (2025)
Journal Article
van Bodegraven, B., Ahmed, S., Ardern-Jones, M., Gran, S., Harwood, C., Millington, G., Mistry, K., Proby, C., Vernon, S., & Venables, Z. C. (in press). Skin cancers are the most common cancer in England. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, https://doi.org/10.1093/ced/llaf163

Dear Editor, When asking a search engine, ‘What is the most common cancer in England?’ all the top results give an answer that excludes keratinocyte cancers (KCs), which is the group term for basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) and cutaneous squamous cell c... Read More about Skin cancers are the most common cancer in England.

myCOtrak: an app which records smoking, nicotine use and exhaled carbon monoxide concentrations concurrently for use in smoking research (2025)
Journal Article
Huang, Y., Emery, J., McDaid, L., Naughton, F., Clark, M., Dickinson, A., Cooper, S., & Coleman, T. (2025). myCOtrak: an app which records smoking, nicotine use and exhaled carbon monoxide concentrations concurrently for use in smoking research. BMC Research Notes, 18(1), Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-025-07195-2

OBJECTIVE: Smoking during pregnancy poses significant health risks, necessitating accurate continuous monitoring of pregnant women's smoking behaviours. Existing methods relying on self-reporting lack objectivity, while biochemical measures like exha... Read More about myCOtrak: an app which records smoking, nicotine use and exhaled carbon monoxide concentrations concurrently for use in smoking research.

Lessons from the PROTECT-CH COVID-19 platform trial in care homes (2025)
Journal Article
Bath, P. M., Ball, J., Boyd, M., Gage, H., Glover, M., Godfrey, M., Guthrie, B., Hewitt, J., Howard, R., Jaki, T., Juszczak, E., Lasserson, D., Leighton, P., Leyland, V., Shen Lim, W., Logan, P., Meakin, G., Montgomery, A., Ogollah, R., Passmore, P., …Gordon, A. L. (2025). Lessons from the PROTECT-CH COVID-19 platform trial in care homes. Health Technology Assessment, https://doi.org/10.3310/MTRS8833

Background
Coronavirus disease-2019 was associated with significant mortality and morbidity in care homes in 2020–1. Repurposed antiviral drugs might reduce morbidity and mortality through reducing viral transmission, infection, replication and infl... Read More about Lessons from the PROTECT-CH COVID-19 platform trial in care homes.

Implementing a novel signage-only School Streets approach: Facilitators, barriers, and perceived outcomes (2025)
Journal Article
Todorova, Y., Kendrick, D., Vargas, L., Varela-Mato, V., Gussy, M., Sherar, L. B., Orton, E., & Barnes, J. (2025). Implementing a novel signage-only School Streets approach: Facilitators, barriers, and perceived outcomes. Journal of Transport and Health, 42, Article 102049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2025.102049

Background
School Streets is a time-specific traffic restriction scheme aimed to reduce traffic around schools during pick up and drop off times. This is believed to benefit school children by reducing surrounding air pollution, improving child safe... Read More about Implementing a novel signage-only School Streets approach: Facilitators, barriers, and perceived outcomes.

Ayurveda for Managing Noncommunicable Diseases in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Nations: A Qualitative Systematic Review (2025)
Journal Article
Egwumba, P., Wang, H., Nellums, L., Bains, M., & Chattopadhyay, K. (2025). Ayurveda for Managing Noncommunicable Diseases in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Nations: A Qualitative Systematic Review. Health Science Reports, 8(4), Article e70624. https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.70624

Background: Ayurveda, a traditional system of medicine, has gained recognition in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries as a complementary and alternative medicine for managing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Qua... Read More about Ayurveda for Managing Noncommunicable Diseases in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Nations: A Qualitative Systematic Review.

Clinical knowledge, experiences, and perceptions of yoga providers in arthritis treatment: a UK-based qualitative study (2025)
Journal Article
Biswas, I., Adebusoye, B., Lewis, S., & Chattopadhyay, K. (2025). Clinical knowledge, experiences, and perceptions of yoga providers in arthritis treatment: a UK-based qualitative study. Rheumatology International, 45(4), Article 88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-025-05843-1

Objective: This study explored yoga providers’ clinical knowledge of arthritis, experiences of delivering yoga to people with arthritis, their perceived role in arthritis treatment, and perceived yoga training needs.

Methods: Qualitative semi-str... Read More about Clinical knowledge, experiences, and perceptions of yoga providers in arthritis treatment: a UK-based qualitative study.

A group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin – the ROSHNI-2 RCT (2025)
Journal Article
Husain, N., Lovell, K., Chew-Graham, C. A., Lunat, F., Bee, P., Pierce, M., Atif, N., Aseem, S., Bhui, K., Bower, P., Brugha, T., Chaudhry, N., Ullah, A., Davies, L., Gire, N., Sharma, D., Miah, J., Ahmed, W., Kai, J., Mirza, I., …Morriss, R. (2025). A group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin – the ROSHNI-2 RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 29(6), 1-113. https://doi.org/10.3310/kkds6622

Background: Postnatal depression is more common in British South Asian women than white women in the United Kingdom. Despite empirical evidence suggesting the effectiveness of cognitive–behavioural therapy as a first line of treatment, little evidenc... Read More about A group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin – the ROSHNI-2 RCT.

Deep phenotyping to understand hearing and hearing disorders: Protocol for a feasibility study (2025)
Journal Article
Spriggs, R. V., Bateman, P., Sanchez-Lopez, R., Thornton, S. K., Phillips, O. R., Hoare, D. J., & Wiggins, I. M. (2025). Deep phenotyping to understand hearing and hearing disorders: Protocol for a feasibility study. PLoS ONE, 20(3), Article e0320418. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320418

Globally, hearing loss affects around 1.5 billion people, while tinnitus is estimated to impact around 740 million. More research is urgently needed to address the challenges presented by hearing loss, tinnitus, and other hearing-related conditions.... Read More about Deep phenotyping to understand hearing and hearing disorders: Protocol for a feasibility study.

Alternate Choice Organ Counselling in Altruistic Non-Directed Solid Organ Donation: An Ethical Analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Armitage, R. C. (2025). Alternate Choice Organ Counselling in Altruistic Non-Directed Solid Organ Donation: An Ethical Analysis. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 31(2), Article e70055. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.70055

Introduction: Currently, recruitment of non-directed altruistic (NDA) kidney and liver lobe donors in the UK regards these individuals as potential NDA donors of the particular organ type they initially express an interest in donating. Conceptualisin... Read More about Alternate Choice Organ Counselling in Altruistic Non-Directed Solid Organ Donation: An Ethical Analysis.