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Weight-loss drugs may prevent thousands of knee replacements, study suggests ⊖
Patients with knee arthritis who took medications for at least three years at reduced risk of needing surgery
Taking weight-loss drugs for at least three years could prevent thousands of knee replacem…
89 days ago
The Guardian view on King Charles’s state visit: a regal exercise in damage limitation | Editorial ○
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The monarch must do his best to wrest some diplomatic advantage from an ill-timed trip, which Donald Trump will treat as a personal tribute
When King Charles’s mother became the first British monarch …
4 months ago
More than 220m children will be obese by 2040 without drastic action, report warns ○
World Obesity Federation says half a billion children will be overweight and calls on governments to act to create healthier environments
Without drastic action more than 220 million children could ha…
6 months ago
How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’? ⊕
Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here
In the last 15 years, a linked series of unprecedented technologies have changed the experience of …
7 months ago
Do prawns feel pain? Why scientists are urging a rethink of Australia’s favoured festive food ⊕⊕
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Studies show crustaceans can learn, remember, solve problems and form relationships
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I'm a virus hunter... H3N2 is unlike any strain of flu I've ever seen, here's why it's causing havoc across the globe ⊖
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Mandatory mask rules have been established in certain hospitals in England. Globally, people in Japan and parts of the US and Spain have already been urged to mask up.
8 months ago
New drug could be a breakthrough in treatment for killer TB, trial suggests ⊖⊖
Sorfequiline shows stronger action than existing treatments against illness that killed 1.23 million last year
A new treatment for tuberculosis could boost cure rates and shorten the time needed to tr…
‘It sounds like witchcraft’: can light therapy really give you better skin, cleaner teeth, stronger joints? ⊕⊕⊕
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From infrared saunas to LED beauty masks, a billion-dollar market has grown around the healing power of light. But where does the science end and the hype begin?
Light therapy is certainly having a m…
10 months ago
New drug hailed as ‘gamechanger’ in tackling stubbornly high blood pressure ○
Trials of baxdrostat have produced ‘exciting’ results for people whose hypertension has proved difficult to control
Doctors are hailing a new pill for patients with high blood pressure resistant to ex…