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Microplastics have crossed so many boundaries it is hard to keep track. The ‘red flag’ of our consumptive lifestyles, they have reached the limits of the Earth - from the Mariana Trench to the tip of Mount Everest. These tiny particles of decomposed plastic have seeped into clouds, and been found buried in archaeological remains believed to be ‘pristine’. They have challenged our ideas of bodily inviolability too, infiltrating every organ. What might have been considered the ‘purest’ parts of human life - placentas, babies, breast milk - contain microplastics. So it comes as little surprise th...
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A final inquiry report detailing what happened in the UK's infected blood scandal in the 1970s and 1980s will be published on Monday. Around 3,000 people are believed to have died as a result of being infected with HIV and hepatitis from blood transfusions during what's seen as the deadliest scandal to afflict Britain's state-run National Health Service since its inception in 1948. The inquiry report is expected to criticise pharmaceutical firms and medical workers, civil servants and politicians, though many have already died given the passage of time. It's also set to pave the way to a huge ...
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Hypertension, which is also known as high blood pressure, is a common condition that affects an estimated one in three people globally, but if left untreated, it can lead to heart attack and stroke. It’s a number that has doubled in the last two decades, with nearly half of people with the condition unaware of it, the World Health Organization (WHO) said last year. “It's a concern because it's a potentially life-threatening condition, and it largely goes unnoticed because when you have high blood pressure, you rarely have any symptoms,” Julie Ward, a senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart F...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden's administration formally proposed on Thursday reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift that would bring federal policy more in line with public opinion. "No one should be in jail merely for using or possessing marijuana. Period," Biden said in a video statement. "Far too many lives have been upended because of a failed approach to marijuana and I'm committed to righting those wrongs." Marijuana has been classified since 1970 as a so-called Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) -- the same level as with her...
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Washington (AFP) - Human relationships are inherently shaped by power dynamics, yet quantifying their impact has remained a scientific challenge. Now, a large new study published Thursday in the journal Science reveals that military doctors give more attention to higher-ranked patients, providing concrete evidence about the privileges that come with elevated status, frequently at the expense of the less powerful. "One of the things we are trying to show is that this is not a military-specific analysis," said co-author Manasvini Singh of Carnegie Mellon University, arguing the findings are just...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden's administration formally proposed on Thursday reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift that would bring federal policy more in line with public opinion. "No one should be in jail merely for using or possessing marijuana. Period," Biden said in a video statement. "Far too many lives have been upended because of a failed approach to marijuana and I'm committed to righting those wrongs." Marijuana has been classified since 1970 as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) along with heroin, ecstasy and LSD, mea...
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How did deadly wildfires in Hawaii last year impact people's health? A new study found that nearly half of people in Maui affected by the fires "experienced a decline in health," compared to a year ago. Roughly 74 per cent of study participants had poor respiratory health or elevated risk for cardiovascular disease due to hypertension. The University of Hawaii study looked at 679 people as part of ongoing research into the impact of the fires on health. More than half of the participants lived in the fire perimeter area. Heat-related deaths are on the rise in Europe as the effects of climate c...
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Kenyan resident Belinda Adhiambo had to have her leg amputated when she was three years old after an accident and she still suffers from phantom pains. But in her hometown Kibera, a large impoverished neighbourhood in Nairobi, paying a doctor could mean missing a meal. "Most of these insurance covers do not cover persons with disabilities because of our diversity. We have different needs,” said Adhiambo. Now Adhiambo sells her medical data to an app and in return gets to see a doctor. She gets a credit when she gives her data to the app, which the company behind it calls virtual "Hippocratic c...
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A world-first treatment based on his research has kept an Australian doctor cancer-free for a year. A year after a devastating stage 4 Glioblastoma diagnosis, Professor Richard Scolyer from the University of Sydney has shared some positive news: His recent scans show no signs of recurrence. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Scolyer wrote: "I had brain #MRI scan last Thursday looking for recurrent #glioblastoma (&/or treatment complications). I found out yesterday that there is still no sign of recurrence. I couldn't be happier!!!!!" Scolyer suffered a seizure in Poland while travelling through E...
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Washington (AFP) - Drug overdose deaths in the United States declined last year for the first time since 2018, provisional data released Wednesday showed, suggesting tentative progress in combating the opioid epidemic even as experts cautioned against premature celebration. There were an estimated 107,543 such deaths in the country in 2023, down three percent compared to the year before -- with the decline driven by a drop in fatalities associated with the synthetic opioid fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "Today's data showing a decrease in drug ove...
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