Discontinuing antihypertensives in older patients before non-cardiac surgery

Pausing a patient’s usual dose of blood pressure medication on the day of surgery reduces the rate of very low blood pressure requiring treatment during the operation compared with taking their medication as normal, finds trial

We should be wary of campaigns by pharmaceutical companies to destigmatise obesity

Destigmatising obesity is the right thing to do but we should be wary of the vested interest pharmaceutical companies have in tackling that stigma, say Michael Viggars and colleagues

Abdul El-Sayed: Who is America’s first epidemiologist senator?

Abdul El-Sayed is set to become the United States’ first Muslim and first epidemiologist senator. Elisabeth Mahase looks at how medicine has shaped his journey