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Recent world events have highlighted leadership in a variety of ways. For some, it has been an opportunity to excel by applying the right characteristics at the right time and in the right way. Others have been less successful in how their leadership has been perceived.

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COVID-19 pandemic: Can the cultural and heritage sectors support older people’s well-being through social prescribing?

The potential of social prescribing to support people diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment

CEBM response: “Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle interventions”

High-dose opioids: five factors that increase the risk of harm

DPhil student Georgia Richards argues why it’s time for doctors to rethink the prescribing of high-dose opioids for people with chronic pain.

Coronavirus and diabetes: the different risks for people with type 1 and type 2

People with type 1 diabetes are approximately 3.5 times as likely to die in hospital with COVID-19, while people with type 2 are approximately twice as likely, but why is this, and what can be done to reduce this risk?

Nicotine therapy for coronavirus: the evidence is weak and contradictory

We are unlikely to know whether nicotine replacement has a role in COVID-19 any time soon. For now, nicotine supplies must be preserved for the people who need them.

Cultural environments can improve health and wellbeing through 'social prescribing'

Challenging our teaching in evidence-based medicine. A risk worth taking

The rise and rise of realist reviews?

Realist reviews are becoming an increasing popular approach to synthesising evidence about complex interventions. Whilst Geoff welcomes this increase, he raises challenges that such popularity might bring

Diagnostic tests for bacterial infections in older adults - unexpected results!

Low-dose ketamine can be effective in reducing post-operative pain

Do journals really care about bias and reporting in clinical trials?

Should we be using credible intervals more routinely?

The James Lind Library's Explanatory Essays: new downloadable book

Thinking about meta-synthesis and its proliferation over recent years

Numbers don't count - methods do

Why we need to reshape critical appraisal and develop tools that allow differentiated evaluations of the myriad of qualitative methodological approaches

Bacterial skin infections in older adults- don't make a rash diagnosis...

What have qualitative systematic reviews ever done for us?

Stephanie Tierney and Kamal R Mahtani discuss meta-synthesis and its role for patients, practitioners and policy makers.

How can we get value-based healthcare?

Louise Hurst, Senior Associate Tutor and Senior Research Fellow in Public Health Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Salt reduction in heart failure: where has the uncertainty come from?