Yonder: PTSD, piles, Pharma visits, and parkrun

Good pharma? Bad pharma? Better pharma.

Running on a high: parkrun and personal well-being

BACKGROUND Sporting or physical recreation event participation can affect different domains of mental and social well-being if sufficiently frequent, yet previous research has focused mainly on the physical health benefits of single-location or infrequent mass-participation events. We examined overall and domain specific subjective well-being of adult participants of "parkrun", a weekly, commun...

Prestressed Concrete Piles

A state of the art presentation on prestressed piling as used throughout the world is discussed in this General Report to the FIP Symposium on Mass-Produced Prestressed Precast Elements in Madrid, Spain, May 1968. Historical information, design data and notes along with manufacturing techniques, installation practices, discussion of problems and failures and a complete bibliography are all cove...

Yonder: Self-harm, repeat prescribing, deprescribing, and worry.

Self-harm. Most self-harm research has taken place in secondary care, although clearly primary care has an essential role in most cases. The Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) is an increasingly popular UK general practice data source and it was recently used to examine primary care clinical management following episodes of selfharm.1 Using data from 684 general practices, researchers i...

Yonder: Hearing aids, postpartum depression, acute asthma, and online records.

Hearing aids. Despite technological advancements, hearing aids continue to be the most common intervention for hearing loss. However, for a variety of practical and psychological reasons, people fitted with hearing aids often stop using them. In the UK, volunteers who often wear hearing aids themselves have supported NHS patients’ use of hearing aids and a Bristol research team recently sought ...