Introduction Methamphetamine use disorder (MeUD) is a debilitating condition with no FDA-approved pharmacotherapies that has been associated with poor neurological, psychiatric and cardiovascular ...

The proper distribution of scarce medical resources is a heavily debated topic in medical ethics. Some have argued that allocation strategies should sometimes incorporate whether a particular health ...

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is linked to significant morbidity and mortality, with ischaemic stroke being a leading cause of death. Identifying modifiable risk and protective factors may help ...

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common sustained cardiac arrhythmia with increasing prevalence and incidence worldwide. However, long-term trends in AF prevalence, incidence, associated risk ...

Objective To examine prevention strategies and potential modifiable risk factors (MRFs) for sport-related concussion (SRC) and head impact/head acceleration event (HAE) outcomes in female, woman ...

Background Handoffs are a weak link in the chain of clinical care of inpatients. Within-unit handoffs are increasing in frequency due to changes in duty hours. There are strong rationales for ...

Importance Quitting smoking is essential for stabilising and improving respiratory function in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety ...

Background The ‘right to request’ flexible working policy has been gradually extended and, by 2014, extended to cover all workers with at least 26 weeks of continuous employment. The impact of these ...

Pain perception is a vital protective mechanism.1 However, chronic pain, maladaptive and persistent, constitutes a major disease burden.2 Reliance on opioid analgesics is fraught with risks of ...

Background Globally, up to 17% of hospitalised people suffer a patient safety incident. Learning from adverse events through patient safety investigation is critical to prevention; however, their ...

The breach hit core JavaScript libraries such as chalk and strip-ansi, downloaded billions of times each week, raising alarms over the security of open-source software. Hackers have compromised widely ...