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14 votes
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US Federal nutrition research is underfunded, even as the costs of diet-related diseases are skyrocketing. Does Washington hold the key to solving the obesity crisis?
9 votes -
Unified theory of evolution
4 votes -
Welcome to “Cancer Alley” in Louisiana, where toxic air is about to get worse
5 votes -
Demand for gynecological "premarital exams" in Utah worries sexual health experts
4 votes -
Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
6 votes -
Questions to Bill Gates about global health and more
6 votes -
On finding the freedom to rage against our fathers
8 votes -
The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt
12 votes -
World Mental Health Day 2019: Focus on suicide prevention
5 votes -
We are in the midst of a mental health crisis – advice about jogging and self-care is not enough
10 votes -
Donald Trump administration will deny visas to US immigrants who cannot prove they will have health insurance or the ability to pay for medical costs
6 votes -
For drivers, roads are safer than ever – but for people on foot, they are getting deadlier. Car companies and Silicon Valley claim that they have the solution. But is that too good to be true?
10 votes -
Inmates suffering heart attacks or brutalized in jail beatings have been released so sheriffs wouldn’t have to pay for their medical care. Some were rearrested once they had recovered.
6 votes -
Health insurance that doesn’t cover the bills has flooded the market under Trump
16 votes -
Inside the Ethics Committee
Inside the Ethics Committee is a BBC Radio 4 programme. They describe it like this: Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to wrestle with the ethics arising from a real-life medical case....
Inside the Ethics Committee is a BBC Radio 4 programme. They describe it like this:
Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to wrestle with the ethics arising from a real-life medical case.
Each episode is chaired by Bakewell, with a range of different experts (who all sit on hospital ethics committees), talking about the ethical difficulties faced by healthcare professionals (and the organisations they work for) in different real life cases.
Some of it hasn't aged very well - there's an episode about HIV testing an unconscious patient after a needle-stick injury. With advances in treatment and reductions in stigma I think would have made it a very different programme today.
But most of it is pretty good, and explains in detail how some decisions are made.
For example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0643x61
Ashley is 14 years old when doctors discover a brain tumour. Tests reveal that it's highly treatable; there's a 95% chance of cure if he has a course of radiotherapy.
Ashley begins the treatment but he has to wear a mask which makes him very anxious and the radiotherapy itself makes him sick. He finds it increasingly difficult to bear and he starts to miss his sessions.
Despite patchy treatment Ashley's cancer goes into remission. He and his mother are thrilled but a routine follow-up scan a few months later shows that the cancer has returned.
Ashley is adamant that he will not have the chemotherapy that is recommended this time. He threatens that he will run away if treatment is forced on him. Although Ashley is only 15 he is 6'2" and restraining him would not be easy.
Should the medical team and his mother persuade him to have the chemotherapy? Or should they accept his decision, even though he is only 15?
5 votes -
How to spread hep A without leaving your house
4 votes -
Conspiracy theorists have chilled real fluoride research, researchers say
12 votes -
Former nail biters --- how did you quit?
I'm sitting here reading about Jeremy Renner's failed app and new Amazon store and filing my nails down. I've mostly stopped biting, but I still do every so often. So if you've quit, how the hell...
I'm sitting here reading about Jeremy Renner's failed app and new Amazon store and filing my nails down. I've mostly stopped biting, but I still do every so often.
So if you've quit, how the hell did you do it? The bad tasting nail polish stuff doesn't taste bad enough for me... is there an Allen Carr for biters?
22 votes -
No body's business but mine: How menstruation apps are sharing your data
6 votes -
Burnout symptoms in tech
7 votes -
The message of measles - As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the US in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease
9 votes -
Men
41 votes -
We tried to do vanlife right. It broke us down.
11 votes -
Patient’s death could be first in the US linked to e-cigarette use, officials say
7 votes -
Anxiety looks different in men and often appears as anger, muscle aches or alcohol use
7 votes -
Suicide rate for girls has been rising faster than for boys, study finds
13 votes -
Is it time for asleep divorce?
11 votes -
Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers
11 votes -
Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in 1887 to expose the horrors of an insane asylum
9 votes -
How health officials in pro-life states are quietly dismantling abortion access
6 votes -
No, Lyme disease is not an escaped military bioweapon, despite what conspiracy theorists say
10 votes -
Dialysis firm cancels $524,600.17 medical bill after journalists investigate
10 votes -
A doctor shortage is looming, and a Clinton-era policy is partly to blame
6 votes -
Juul spent more than $200,000 sponsoring programs in schools meant to "convey its messaging directly to teenage children" and marketed to teens by recruiting online influencers.
16 votes -
Why a "public option" isn't enough
9 votes -
My religious OCD convinced me God would never love me
6 votes -
Lean Cuisine doesn’t want to be part of diet culture anymore. Does it have a choice?
9 votes -
The insulin racket
8 votes -
Very rare pathogenic genetic variants detected by SNP-chips are usually false positives: implications for direct-to-consumer genetic testing
8 votes -
Turning twenty-six is a potential death sentence for people with type 1 diabetes in America
14 votes -
With recent confirmation that periods have no health benefit, an increasing number of women are using contraception to stop them altogether
14 votes -
One family’s ordeal with schizophrenia: In “The Edge of Every Day,” Marin Sardy struggles to make sense of a deeply mysterious disease and its effects on her mother and brother
7 votes -
Do cookbooks need nutrition facts?
11 votes -
Dissecting the role of the gut microbiota and diet on visceral fat mass accumulation
4 votes -
What are your thoughts on the "precautionary principle"? Is there too much of it, or not enough?
5 votes -
This traditional Brazilian raw milk cheese is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over government regulation
6 votes -
Where disease stopped and my brother began: Coming to terms with a sibling's suicide
3 votes -
The West isn’t ready for the long-term health impacts of wildfire smoke
15 votes -
The hidden cost of GoFundMe health care - When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins
7 votes