Study at University of Warwick is testing a new online programme for children’s wellbeingParents of young adolescents aged 11 – 15 years attending school in the West Midlands invited to participateParents with young adolescents aged 11 – 15 years are
Antidepressants Not Clinically Useful for Back Pain
While professional guidelines recommend antidepressants for back pain, researchers point out the lack of evidence for their usefulness.
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Antidepressants are commonly prescribed for chronic pain, including back pain, sciatica, and osteoarthritis. Major pain guidelines recommend the use of serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), most commonly duloxetine. Yet, the evidence for antidepressants in pain is scant.
A new study in the
BMJ, led by Giovanni Ferreira at the University of Sydney, Australia, aimed to assess the evidence for these drugs in treating back pain and osteoarthritis. They found that the vast majority of the studies were at high risk of bias, and the outcomes (while statistically significant) did not meet a threshold for
Study shows CPR is the “gold standard” technique against other alternatives
A technique frequently portrayed in dramatic resuscitation scenes in television and film is among several alternative methods to CPR that have shown no benefit in saving lives in a review by University of Warwick researchers.
The systematic review reinforces cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as the gold standard technique when health professionals or members of the public are attempting to resuscitate someone in cardiac arrest.
The article, published in the journal
Resuscitation, is the first comprehensive systematic review of evidence on the effectiveness of three less-used resuscitation techniques: cough CPR, percussion pacing and precordial thump. The precordial thump, in which a patient is struck on the chest in the hope of restarting the heart, has often been used in dramatic scenes in TV and film, such as in
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One of the first clinical trials to investigate treatment for the long-term symptoms of Covid-19 to be led by University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Researchers are to pioneer a tailored and supervised online exercise and support programme for those experiencing what has been dubbed long Covid
Previous research on similar diseases such as SARS has shown some benefit of exercise rehabilitation for patients
Researchers at the University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust in the UK are to investigate whether a tailored online exercise and support programme would benefit those experiencing long-term symptoms of Covid-19 - what has been dubbed long Covid .