BBC We are now in the era of weight-loss drugs. Decisions on how these drugs will be used look likely to shape our future health and even what our society might look like. And, as researchers are finding, they are already toppling the belief that obesity is simply a moral failing of the weak-willed. Weight-loss […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a speech to parliament on Wednesday that North Korea was a de facto participant in the war in Ukraine, siding with Russia. He said that Ukrainian intelligence had found that Pyongyang was transferring not only weapons, but also soldiers to Moscow. The deepening military ties between Russia and North […]
Boohoo is planning a major restructure that could see the break-up of the struggling online fashion firm whose brands include Debenhams, Karen Millen and PrettyLittleThing. The company said it was reviewing options after concluding that its business remained “fundamentally undervalued”. While Boohoo benefited from the surge to online shopping during the pandemic, it has subsequently […]
Getty Images Iceland is one of the world’s most volcanically active places I’m in one of the world’s volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano. A short distance away I can see the rim of the volcano’s crater lake, while to the south steam vents and mud pools bubble away. Krafla has erupted around […]
Starmer arrives in Germany for talks on Ukraine and Middle East conflicts The prime minister has arrived in Berlin ahead of a meeting with the leaders of the US, France and Germany. The so-called “Quad” meeting on Friday afternoon is expected to discuss the war in Ukraine and the spiralling conflict in the Middle East. […]
Jeannie Ambrose Jeannie Ambrose, one of about 1,000 affected patients, says Enhertu should be made available on the NHS More than a thousand patients with advanced breast cancer are being denied a drug that can keep them alive for longer. It is already available in 19 countries in Europe – including in Scotland – but […]
Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentOct 17, 2024, 04:54 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Gregg Berhalter acknowledged that his firing in August as U.S. men’s national team coach was “a really difficult moment,” but said he’s now hungry and motivated again to take on his new […]
Getty Images The NHS has had a bumper year for offering hormone replacement therapy (HRT), latest figures show. Some 13 million items were prescribed to an estimated 2.6 million patients in the latest full financial year spanning 2023/24. That is compared to just under 11m items for 2.3m women in 2022/23. It comes after the […]
Getty Images A water company repeatedly dumped millions of litres of raw sewage illegally into one of England’s most famous lakes over a three-year period, the BBC can reveal. More than 140 million litres of waste were pumped into Windermere between 2021 and 2023 at times when it was not permitted, our analysis shows, and […]
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