Is it safe? Is it spying? Disquiet over NHS ‘magic eye’ surveillance camera in mental health units: Including concerns that Oxevision may be being used as a substitute for, as opposed to an adjunct to, human care.

Why I regret using 23andMe: I gave up my DNA just to find out I’m British: The results weren’t exciting, and the company was in the process of imploding.

‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn: There’s little suggestion we’ll really know any better what to do next time.

GLP-1 Side Effects Only One Factor Driving Patient Discontinuation Rates: Other factors include affordability, availability, doctor medication switches and achieving one’s weight loss goals.

Man Whose Daughter Died From Measles Stands by Failure to Vaccinate Her: “The Vaccination Has Stuff We Don’t Trust”: An unnecessary tragedy.

Have humans passed peak brain power?: ‘Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning’.

We can’t move for therapists but do they help or harm mental health patients?: It’s very hard to argue that this industry doesn’t need some serious regulation.

Five years on: Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout: ‘Life expectancy, homelessness and young people’s mental health were among the areas where Britain performed poorly’

‘I lost 10 years of my life’: how UK betting giant’s unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked: A particularly dark example of the perils of letting companies surveil, extract and exploit the trail of data modern life requires we generate.

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.