Public healthPoorer health is linked to votes for Reform UKPeople with poorer health are more likely to vote for the populist right wing political party Reform UK, showed a study published in BMJ Open Respiratory Research.1 Researchers analysed voting patterns in England during the 2024 general election and looked at 20 common health outcomes in each constituency, including asthma, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, dementia, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. The five areas that returned a Reform UK MP had the highest average prevalence of 15 of those 20 health conditions.Prostate cancerNICE approves combination for advanced casesThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended darolutamide in combination with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) as a treatment option for patients with metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer unsuitable for chemotherapy. Final draft guidance from NICE says that darolutamide (Nubeqa, made by Bayer) plus ADT is as effective as another…
