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Healthcare use and its variation in people with fibromyalgia: a systematic review protocol (2025)
Journal Article
Katherine Byrne, A., Twohig, H., Muller, S., & C. Scott, I. (2025). Healthcare use and its variation in people with fibromyalgia: a systematic review protocol. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 26, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1463423625000362

Aim:
A crucial step towards improving the care of people with fibromyalgia is understanding current practice. Our systematic review aims to address this by synthesising the global evidence around healthcare use in people with fibromyalgia, including... Read More about Healthcare use and its variation in people with fibromyalgia: a systematic review protocol.

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a personalised guided consultation versus usual physiotherapy care in people presenting with shoulder pain: a protocol for the PANDA-S cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation (2025)
Journal Article
A Harrisson, S., Myers, H., Wynne Jones, G., Bajpai, R., Bratt, C., Burton, C., Harrison, R., Jowett, S., A Lawton, S., Saunders, B., J Beard, D., Bucknall, M., Chester, R., Heneghan, C., Huckfield, L., Lewis, M., D Mallen, C., Pincus, T., L Rees, J., Roddy, E., & A Van der Windt, D. (2025). Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a personalised guided consultation versus usual physiotherapy care in people presenting with shoulder pain: a protocol for the PANDA-S cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation. BMJ Open, 15(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-100501

Introduction: Musculoskeletal shoulder pain is a common reason for people to be treated in physiotherapy services, but diagnosis can be difficult and often does not guide treatment or predict outcome. People with shoulder pain cite a need for clear i... Read More about Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a personalised guided consultation versus usual physiotherapy care in people presenting with shoulder pain: a protocol for the PANDA-S cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation.

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of individualised exercises and foot orthoses in the treatment of plantar heel pain: protocol for the TREADON randomised multi-arm multi-stage adaptive trial (2025)
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Thomas, M. J., Hughes, G., Cooke, K., Butler-Walley, S., Marshall, E., Bowyer, L., Wathall, S., Smith, J., Lawton, S. A., Brammar, J., Burnett, T., Drake, C., Foster, N. E., Hendry, G. J., Holden, M. A., Jaki, T., Joseph, R., Keenan, A.-M., Kigozi, J., Lewis, M., …Roddy, E. (2025). Clinical and cost-effectiveness of individualised exercises and foot orthoses in the treatment of plantar heel pain: protocol for the TREADON randomised multi-arm multi-stage adaptive trial

Background
Plantar heel pain (PHP) is the most common soft tissue foot condition and impairs mobility, physical function, ability to work, and quality of life. Systematic reviews highlight a need for high-quality randomised controlled trials (RCTs)... Read More about Clinical and cost-effectiveness of individualised exercises and foot orthoses in the treatment of plantar heel pain: protocol for the TREADON randomised multi-arm multi-stage adaptive trial.

Discrimination of a single-item scale to measure intention to have a COVID-19 vaccine (2025)
Journal Article
Sim, J., Smith, L. E., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. J., Sevdalis, N., & Sherman, S. M. (2025). Discrimination of a single-item scale to measure intention to have a COVID-19 vaccine. PloS one, 20(5), Article e0322503. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322503

Aim: When developing public health measures in a pandemic, it is important to examine attitudes and beliefs relating to vaccination uptake. We report the discrimination of a single-item vaccination intention scale and derive cutpoints in terms of sen... Read More about Discrimination of a single-item scale to measure intention to have a COVID-19 vaccine.

The TBXT rs2305089 SNP links the benign notochordal cell tumour and chordoma (2025)
Journal Article
Usher, I., O'Donnell, P., Ligammari, L., Harder, D., Brown, W., Choi, D., Cool, P., Cottone, L., & Flanagan, A. M. (2025). The TBXT rs2305089 SNP links the benign notochordal cell tumour and chordoma. The Journal of pathology, https://doi.org/10.1002/path.6427

The aim of this research was to investigate the pathogenesis of the bone cancer chordoma and the role of the germline rs2305089 SNP in TBXT. Using medical imaging and genotyping studies, we observed that benign notochordal cell tumours (BNCTs) were a... Read More about The TBXT rs2305089 SNP links the benign notochordal cell tumour and chordoma.

The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India (2025)
Journal Article
Fiks, E. (2025). The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India. Social Science and Medicine, 377, 118150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118150

This ethnographic paper examines how various professionals working within sterilization camps in India engage with everyday ethics. While sterilization in India—and its place within India's population control programme historically entrenched in over... Read More about The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India.

Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2) (2025)
Journal Article
Geraghty, A. W. A., Becque, T., Roberts, L. C., Hill, J., Foster, N. E., Yardley, L., Stuart, B., Turner, D. A., Griffiths, G., Webley, F., Durcan, L., Morgan, A., Hughes, S., Bathers, S., Butler-Walley, S., Wathall, S., Mansell, G., White, M., Davies, F., & Little, P. (2025). Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2). Health Technology Assessment, 29(7), 1-112. https://doi.org/10.3310/gdps2418

Background Low back pain is highly prevalent and a leading cause of disability. Internet-delivered interventions may provide rapid and scalable support for behavioural self-management. There is a need to determine the effectiveness of highly accessib... Read More about Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2).

Managing obstetric bleeding in Wales: A qualitative evaluation of the OBS Cymru care bundle using Normalisation Process Theory (2025)
Journal Article
Rai, T., Hinton, L. E., Mackay, R., Black, M., Sanders, J., Slade, P., Elsmore, A., Dhadda, A., Parry-Smith, W., Collis, R., Petrou, S., Stanworth, S., Pallman, P., Townson, J., Fye, H., Geden, A. G., Collins, P., & Bell, S. (2025). Managing obstetric bleeding in Wales: A qualitative evaluation of the OBS Cymru care bundle using Normalisation Process Theory. PloS one, 20(4), Article e0320754. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320754

Background: Post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide. The Obstetric Bleeding Strategy (OBS) care bundle for PPH management was adopted into Welsh national guidelines in 2019 (as OBS Cymr... Read More about Managing obstetric bleeding in Wales: A qualitative evaluation of the OBS Cymru care bundle using Normalisation Process Theory.

Co‐Producing Resources to Help Improve Access to Primary Care for Young People With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2025)
Journal Article
Gudka, R., Salimi, A., Gaywood, R., Hendrick, D., Becker, K., Medzinskii, O., Mughal, F., Melendez‐Torres, G. J., Smith, J., Newlove‐Delgado, T., & Price, A. (2025). Co‐Producing Resources to Help Improve Access to Primary Care for Young People With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Health Expectations, 28(3), Article e70200. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70200

Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder resulting in negative long‐term outcomes if untreated. Pathways to healthcare in the United Kingdom are complex, especially for those aged 16–25 trans... Read More about Co‐Producing Resources to Help Improve Access to Primary Care for Young People With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Regional concentrations of heavy metals in surface soils and risk of body pain in elderly residential population: a national cohort study in China (2025)
Journal Article
Qu, B., Hu, B., Rong, R., Wu, L., Shi, X., Ma, Z. F., Yuan, L., Goodacre, R., Jordan, K. P., & Chen, Y. (2025). Regional concentrations of heavy metals in surface soils and risk of body pain in elderly residential population: a national cohort study in China. BMC Public Health, 25(1), Article 1571. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22638-y

Background: The accumulation of heavy metals in surface soil raises significant environmental and public health concerns around the world. This study aimed to examine the relationship between exposure to heavy metals in surface soil and the risk of p... Read More about Regional concentrations of heavy metals in surface soils and risk of body pain in elderly residential population: a national cohort study in China.

Temporal species stability underpins the link between biodiversity and human health (2025)
Journal Article
Xu, Q., Qu, B., Zhao, P., Clement, S., Shi, Y., Li, L., Jordan, K. P., & Chen, Y. (2025). Temporal species stability underpins the link between biodiversity and human health. Environmental Research, 278(1 August 2025), Article 121728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.121728

Biodiversity is known to impact human health, but the complex relationships between species diversity and health outcomes is poorly understood. Measuring the temporal dissimilarity in species composition can be leveraged to understand the stability o... Read More about Temporal species stability underpins the link between biodiversity and human health.

Proactive clinical review of patients taking opioid medicines long term for persistent pain led by clinical pharmacists in primary care teams (PROMPPT): a non-randomised mixed methods feasibility study (2025)
Journal Article
Ashworth, J., Cornwall, N., Harrisson, S., Woodcock, C., Nicholls, E., Lancaster, G., Wathall, S., Laing, L., Helliwell, T., Jowett, S., Kigozi, J., Mallen, C., Avery, A., Knaggs, R., Pincus, T., White, S., & Jinks, C. (2025). Proactive clinical review of patients taking opioid medicines long term for persistent pain led by clinical pharmacists in primary care teams (PROMPPT): a non-randomised mixed methods feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 11(1), Article 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-025-01636-2

Background: Given the poor long-term effectiveness of opioids for persistent non-cancer pain, and their potential for harm, evidence-based interventions to address opioid overprescribing for persistent pain are needed. This study aimed to explore the... Read More about Proactive clinical review of patients taking opioid medicines long term for persistent pain led by clinical pharmacists in primary care teams (PROMPPT): a non-randomised mixed methods feasibility study.

Experiences and Perceptions of Self‐Harm in Rural‐Dwelling Adults: A Rapid Review of Qualitative Evidence (2025)
Journal Article
Saunders, K., Nicholls, W., Corp, N., Kingstone, T., Mughal, F., Chew‐Graham, C. A., Southam, J., & Fisher, T. (2025). Experiences and Perceptions of Self‐Harm in Rural‐Dwelling Adults: A Rapid Review of Qualitative Evidence. Health Expectations, 28(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70268

Background: Self‐harm is associated with factors that are relevant to and exacerbated by rurality. Living in rural areas may intensify existing socio‐economic disadvantages linked to service access, employment opportunities, transport conditions and... Read More about Experiences and Perceptions of Self‐Harm in Rural‐Dwelling Adults: A Rapid Review of Qualitative Evidence.

Stakeholder Involvement in the Development of a New Proactive Clinical Review of Patients Prescribed Opioid Medicines Long‐Term for Persistent Pain in Primary Care (2025)
Journal Article
Harrisson, S. A., Jinks, C., Cornwall, N., Woodcock, C., Dikomitis, L., Helliwell, T., Higginbottom, A., Lefroy, J., Knaggs, R., Pincus, T., Santar, M., Sillitto, C., Webb, M., White, S., Mallen, C. D., & Ashworth, J. (2025). Stakeholder Involvement in the Development of a New Proactive Clinical Review of Patients Prescribed Opioid Medicines Long‐Term for Persistent Pain in Primary Care. Health Expectations, 28(3), Article e70264. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70264

Background: Stakeholder involvement is a core element of the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions, but approaches to involve stakeholders are not well‐reported. We outline how stakeholders contr... Read More about Stakeholder Involvement in the Development of a New Proactive Clinical Review of Patients Prescribed Opioid Medicines Long‐Term for Persistent Pain in Primary Care.

704 The effect of exercise therapy on psychological factors among individuals with knee or hip osteoarthritis; a systematic review and meta-analysis (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pouwels, S., der Leeden, M. V., Snoeker, B., Holden, M., & Runhaar, J. (2025, April). 704 The effect of exercise therapy on psychological factors among individuals with knee or hip osteoarthritis; a systematic review and meta-analysis. Presented at 2025 OARSI World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Incheon, South Korea

254 CO-DESIGNING AN OA BOOKLET FOR AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Brien, D., Francis, B., Griffin, D., Campbell, L., Khoo, C., & Nakarada-Kordic, I. (2025, April). 254 CO-DESIGNING AN OA BOOKLET FOR AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND. Presented at 2025 OARSI World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Incheon, South Korea

001 PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PAIN RELATED COMORBIDITIES IN PEOPLE WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS IN EUROPE - EVIDENCE FROM THE ComOA STUDY (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swain, S., Coupland, C., Thompson, W., Mallen, C., Alhambra, D. P., Englund, M., Bierma-Zeinstra, S., Doherty, M., & Zhang, W. (2025, April). 001 PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PAIN RELATED COMORBIDITIES IN PEOPLE WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS IN EUROPE - EVIDENCE FROM THE ComOA STUDY. Presented at 2025 OARSI World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Incheon, South Korea

Physical Impairments in People With Gout: A Scoping Review (2025)
Journal Article
Kumar, P., Buckley, J., Roddy, E., & Thomas, M. J. (2025). Physical Impairments in People With Gout: A Scoping Review. Musculoskeletal Care, 23(2), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.70103

Introduction: Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis. It is predominantly managed with pharmacological interventions, and physical impairments in people with gout have seldom been studied. We aimed to identify gout‐related physical im... Read More about Physical Impairments in People With Gout: A Scoping Review.

Aberrant expression of nuclear prothymosin α contributes to epithelial‐mesenchymal transition in lung cancer (2025)
Journal Article
Chen, L., Wang, C., Chang, J., Shiau, A., Shieh, G., Tseng, Y., Yen, Y., Huang, T., Cheng, L., Wu, Y., Wu, C., Su, B., & Wu, P. (2025). Aberrant expression of nuclear prothymosin α contributes to epithelial‐mesenchymal transition in lung cancer. Molecular Oncology, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1002/1878-0261.70035

Elevated expression of prothymosin α (ProT) is frequently observed in cancers, but the underlying molecular mechanism remains poorly understood. Here, we report the clinical relevance of ProT expression and its correlation with lung cancer progressio... Read More about Aberrant expression of nuclear prothymosin α contributes to epithelial‐mesenchymal transition in lung cancer.