The Guardian view on corridor care: the normalisation of crisis is shocking: Medics increasingly having to deliver care in hospital corridors and other unsuitable places is resulting in ‘increased suffering’.

Call to overhaul obesity diagnoses amid fears of over-reliance on BMI: ‘…there are fears BMI on its own is not a “reliable measure” of an individual’s health and may be resulting in both under- and over-diagnosis of obesity….’

Ambulance handover delays in England may harm 1,000 patients a day: This is happening more and more due to hospitals having insufficient capacity to take in the patients concerned.

Alcohol should carry warning label for cancer risk, US surgeon general says

Scrabble, Anonymous: The life of a Scrabble addict.

Revealed: 1.5m children in England studying in unfit school buildings: Years of insufficient budgets mean that buildings used for services like education, health and justice in the UK are literally crumbling.

‘Wild west’: experts concerned by illegal promotion of weight-loss jabs in UK: Companies are effectively flouting the ban on marketing prescription drugs direct to the public.

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots: Public health agencies are no longer allowed to promote public health.

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD: Spending hours a day looking at the worst humanity has to offer is damaging to one’s health.

Chicken Farm: On the US healthcare system - ‘The “front line” of doctors and nurses are fighting a two front war: one against whatever ails you, and the other against the insurer’.

This is My Most Expensive Habit: Anxiety.

Is Protein Powder a Scam?: ‘Most people don’t need to consume this supplement, experts say, but it can be useful in certain situations.’

Ozempic Killed Diet and Exercise: It’s seeming like patients on GLP-1 drugs don’t benefit a lot from explicit lifestyle interventions in terms of weight loss - although there may be other health benefits of doing them.

I have a cunning plan…: Charles Stross comes up with a cunning business plan for a world in which Trump’s presidency leads to a reemergence of polio in the US.

Congressional Republicans conclude SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab leak: Whatever the truth of the matter is, it’s obvious that the process that led to this particular report was a total abuse of science.

The Allure of ‘Microdosing’ Ozempic: It might be tempting, but there’s not much evidence as to how well it works when used like this yet.

Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People: Not to justify murder, but I’m sure there were a lot of desperate people very unhappy with Brian Thompson’s company.

Semaglutide Eligibility Across All Current Indications for US Adults: An estimated 137 million US adults are medically eligible for treatment with Semaglutide.

What are the key issues in the assisted dying bill debate?: Things to think about as the UK vote on legalising assisted dying draws closer.

‘Real nastiness’: therapist training courses in UK can be ‘toxic’ and need regulating, say students: It’s unfortunate how unregulated some healthcare sectors that we appear to need now more than ever are.

Fat cells have a ‘memory’ of obesity — hinting at why it’s hard to keep weight off: A potential epigenetic reason for why it’s so difficult for folk who’ve lost a lot of weight not to regain it.

To turn Britain around, we need a proper understanding of life for poorer workers: Plagued by ill health and the cost of living crisis.