As an emergency physician, I have treated patients after an overdose when minutes to a lifesaving medication determines survival. I have also worked in substance use clinics, where recovery is rarely immediate and requires meeting patients where they are. In medicine, we are trained to act on evidence, not ideology. When a patient is in…
When Mia* was referred to me, she was 32 weeks pregnant and had not slept properly in two months. Her GP had told her it was “just pregnancy insomnia”. Her obstetrician said it was normal and suggested she try going to bed earlier with a pregnancy pillow. By the time she sat in my consulting…
Highlights 2.0, ’90s sun-kissed strands, and antique pearl are the buzzwords to keep in mind when it comes to summer blonde hair ideas this season. As for what you can leave behind? The iced-blonde trend, according to experts. As anyone who has ever dyed their hair knows, blonde is never just blonde. The shade can…
GPs and hospitals will be required to share patient data under legislation to be announced in the king’s speech on Wednesday. Legislation to create a single patient record (SPR) for each person, which would be used across all healthcare providers, is part of a £10bn digitisation of the health service. The health secretary, Wes Streeting,…
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An artist’s impression of a light sail RICHARD BIZLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Interstellar travel propelled by light just got one step closer. Light sails, which are huge sheets pushed along by light that bounces off of them, may be the best way to travel enormous distances through space, and now we may have a way to…
Last week, at 4am, 19-year-old Sammy Amz was scrolling through X when something caught his eye: a popular Twitch streamer was competing in a 1v1 “mog-off” with a stranger, and losing. The next day he opened the Omoggle gaming website and began to play. Quickly he matched with another user – green dots appeared on…
TikTok abounds with clever cleaning tips, and some are quite good. Using a dish wand to clean the shower? Great idea. Learning that your dishwasher racks are adjustable? A game changer. But many of the techniques popularized on CleanTok are very bad, indeed. Source: Read Full Article
TENERIFE, Spain — The cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak arrived early Sunday off the Spanish island of Tenerife, where the process of sending passengers back to their home countries will get underway. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The ship, the MV…
