Escaping the manosphere
Will Adolphy helps men and boys escape the influence of the online manosphere.
Health
Patients Are Using Chatbots to Fight Medical Bills, With Mixed Results
While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also dispense flawed advice.
‘Month of worry’ over doctor strike surgery delay
The strike further delays Tom Lawson’s gastric bypass surgery after a more than three-year wait.
Hospitals coping well with doctors’ strike so far – NHS boss
Resident doctors in England – the new name for junior doctors – are taking part in their 15th walkout in a long-running pay dispute.
Researchers look into island’s health benefits
The team aims to find out what it is about the Isle of Wight that makes people feel better.
‘Doctors thought my endometriosis was IBS’
Two Kent women share their experiences with endometriosis in hopes to raise awareness.
How Psychedelics Affect the Brain
An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain.
What is vegan collagen?
What’s the latest on Collagen?
3D heart to let surgeons practise baby’s vital heart operation
A 3D model of a baby’s heart will help doctors prepare for open heart surgery.
Women in Northern Ireland welcome introduction of miscarriage leave
Northern Ireland has become the first part of the UK where a woman and her partner are entitled to two weeks of paid leave if they experience a miscarriage at any stage of pregnancy.
‘We will end up with an NHS without doctors’
Dr Melissa Ryan, who works at Lincoln County Hospital, is among dozens of doctors striking over pay.
Patients asked not to visit A&E during strike days
Resident doctors across England are striking for six days as part of an ongoing pay dispute.
Resident doctors ‘want pay we think we’re worth’
A West Midlands union committee co-chair says a narrative doctors are really well paid is not true.
Finasteride for Male Baldness is Rewriting the Rules of Male Beauty
A pill that lets men keep their hair is rewriting the rules of masculinity.
Why Am I Watching People Get Their Medical Results?
What was once discussed with a doctor is now frequently encountered first as decontextualized data on a screen.
Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the Deaths Began.
Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse the cuts.
Cancer patient furious as strike delays appointment
Stuart Sims says he feels let down after a cardiology appointment was cancelled due to the action.
Federal Agency Unveils Three Potential Osteoarthritis Treatments
With funding from ARPA-H, three teams of researchers have regrown bone and cartilage, even entire knees, in animal studies. Human trials are not far off.
Trump’s Foreign Aid Overhaul Sent Millions More Dollars to Big U.S.-Based Contractors
While organizations in the developing world were nearly shut out, the big aid agencies DOGE had called wasteful received huge infusions of cash, a new analysis found.
NASA Families Don’t Go to the Moon, but They’re on the Mission, Too
For the families of the Artemis II astronauts, the mission “begins at assignment.”
Don’t put off treatment during doctors’ strike, NHS tells patients
The strike comes at the end of the bank holiday weekend and NHS managers fear demand could be “challenging”.