Manosphere and online misogyny should be treated as public health issues, say UK experts
Report calls for an effort to tackle harms in similar way to obesity and smoking, and stresses need to ‘offer boys something better’The manosphere and online misogyny should be treated by the government as a public health issue, in the same way as obesity or smoking, experts have said.Writing in the Lancet, the authors of a new report argue that a coordinated response is needed, involving governments, schools, health services and community organisations, similar to the public-health response to tobacco use and ultra-processed food. Continue reading...
Heart attack patient, 83, had to drive four hours for hospital appointment
Charles Swift faced a 140-mile round trip to get to a hospital, but had to drive himself.
Emergency stockpiles are a luxury that not everyone can afford | Letters
Keira Callaghan says being prepared should be a public health measure, not a privilege, and Chris Rotheram is experiencing prescription anxiety. Plus five more letters in response to the Be Ready campaignThe Be Ready campaign may offer sensible advice in principle (Every Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advises, 22 October), but as a midwife working in Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest boroughs in London, I can see first-hand that its practical recommendations risk excluding precisely those families who are already most vulnerable.For families living in a single room in a shared house, storing nine litres of water per person alongside three days’ worth of essential supplies may simply be unrealistic. When families are already struggling with the cost of food, heating and everyday necessities, buying additional emergency provisions may also be financially impossible. Continue reading...
New law changes make vape vending machines illegal
New vaping rules are now in force in the UK, but what does this mean.
Hundreds of GP practices lose online services after collapse of tech firm
It will cause huge disruption in some parts of England and Wales, say GP leaders.
