Health

2025-06-21

The Hidden Risks of Expanding Medical Assistance in Dying: ‘…ask whether it is appropriate for their government to offer easier access to euthanasia than to health care and support’

Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths

2025-06-20: New (to me) vocab just dropped. Apparently the youngsters have taken to referring to an ice cold …

2025-06-02: Good news for vegan body builders. As more sophisticated studies start to be run, it seems like …

2025-06-02

Vegan protein matches meat for muscle growth in strength training

2025-06-01

More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds

2025-05-27: The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those …

2025-05-21: The bankrupt genetic testing company 23andme is selling all its users' genetic data to biotech drug …

2025-05-19

Weight-Loss Drugs Aren’t Really About Weight: Perhaps measures like visceral fat are more important than BMI.

2025-05-17

How weight-loss wonder drugs are redefining the way our bodies work: The ups and downs of GLP-1s.

2025-05-06: People with neurodiversity are more likely to also have obesity

2025-04-27: 📚 Finished listening to Jung - A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens.

2025-04-25

Farage sparks furious backlash after claiming children with special educational needs are ‘over diagnosed’

2025-04-21

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? : ‘The alternative model, by contrast, tells a child a very different story: that his A.D.H.D. symptoms exist on a continuum, one on which we all find ourselves; that he may be experiencing those symptoms as much because of where he is as because of who he is; and that next year, if things change in his surroundings, those symptoms might change as well.’

Parents must make tough choices on smartphones, says children’s commissioner for England: ‘As adults we are ourselves dopamine-addicted, stuck in a cycle of scrolling yet we still have no idea of what our children are seeing.’

NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds

2025-04-11

One in four women in England have serious reproductive health issue, survey finds | Women’s health: Disparates by race also on show.

2025-04-08

Woman becomes first UK womb transplant recipient to give birth

2025-04-07

Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff relief

2025-03-30

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.

2025-03-29

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.

2025-03-25: 23andme declares bankruptcy - consider downloading and delete your data

2025-03-23

‘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.

2025-03-21

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.