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Burning Out: Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?
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Companion dog acquisition may reduce loneliness among community dog owners
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A test with no answer: No procedure exists that can prove virginity, yet dangerously unscientific virginity tests occur regularly—even in the United States
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On finding the freedom to rage against our fathers
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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.
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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?
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Men
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Anxiety looks different in men and often appears as anger, muscle aches or alcohol use
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Is it time for asleep divorce?
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The tyranny of the "ideal woman": How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization
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Where disease stopped and my brother began: Coming to terms with a sibling's suicide
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Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests.
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Is porn making young men impotent?
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Men have no friends and women bear the burden
27 votes -
Sex strikes have a long and controversial history as a tool of women's protest
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Where's masculinity headed? Men's groups and therapists are talking.
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The American Dream is killing us
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Taking mushrooms for depression cured me of my atheism: Psilocybin not only eased my depression, it showed me a new way to live.
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Long school commutes are terrible for kids
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The first ever World Health Organisation physical activity guidelines for under-fives, recommend no screen time for one-year-olds and no more than an hour for two- to-four-year-olds
An article on a parenting website: Guidance recommends no screen time for under-twos An article in Time magazine: World Health Organization Issues First-Ever Screen Time Guidelines for Young Kids....
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An article on a parenting website: Guidance recommends no screen time for under-twos
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An article in Time magazine: World Health Organization Issues First-Ever Screen Time Guidelines for Young Kids. Here's What to Know
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The WHO's press release: To grow up healthy, children need to sit less and play more
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Is prison necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore might change your mind.
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Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men
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Millennials are sick of drinking, but they’re not giving up booze just yet
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Cecilia's life with schizophrenia
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Bigger than that - Complex thoughts on a life spent being the short guy
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This is what the life of an incel looks like
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Loneliness
41 votes -
I am staying home on New Year's Eve, and I'm totally fine about it
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The real roots of American rage - How anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it
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Why standing desks are overrated
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Reddit founder warns 'hustle porn' is 'most toxic, dangerous thing in tech'
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Indonesian policewomen measured through 'purity and beauty', subjected to virginity testing
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Here’s what happened when I quit drinking a year ago
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Living with Slenderman
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Should we treat crime as something to be cured rather than punished? Scotland’s police force has adopted a public health model to tackle violence. Should the rest of the world follow suit?
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Let’s all stop shaming moms for showing emotion
5 votes