WHO declares end to monkeypox public health emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an end to the global public health emergency for monkeypox. WHO declared monkeypox a public health emergency of...
US Surgeon-General says that America has a loneliness epidemic
In addition to smoking, type 2 diabetes, obesity, opioids, and alcoholism, the US Surgeon-General, Dr Vivek Murthy, has identified another epidemic of lifestyle disease which...
Pronatalism continues to intrigue the media
The notion of pronatalism – encouraging, not discouraging, population growth– hasn’t had a good press in recent decades, especially with fears of over-population and global...
Elon Musk: the world will end with ‘a whimper in adult diapers”
Tucker Carlson, the most popular host on US cable TV, has been sacked by Fox News. In one of his final interviews he spoke with...
Mortality rates for American kids are rising for the first time in 50 years
US President Joe Biden is so concerned about the future of American children that he inserted a mandate for affordable child care into a major...
Will Pope Francis be composted?
Will Pope Francis be composted instead of buried in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome with his predecessors? It’s unlikely. But a former editor of the...
Human challenge studies: what we’ve learned from intentionally infecting people with COVID
When COVID began to spread rapidly in 2020, sending the UK and other countries into lockdowns, many people asked what they could do to help....
Is America’s healthcare system a kleptocapitalist nightmare?
American health care is perishing under the weight of its greed, according to an editorial in JAMA by Donald M. Berwick, a well-known former administrator...
China is desperate to raise its birthrate
China’s fertility rate has sunk to 1.18 children per woman and its population has begun to decline. Deaths outnumbered births for the first time in...
Peru’s forced sterilization tragedy drags on in the courts
For at least 25 years, indigenous Peruvian women have been fighting for justice after they were forcibly sterilized by doctors working for the government of...
Japanese PM says that his country is falling off a demographic cliff
Japan’s Prime Minister has warned that his country will fall over an economic and social cliff unless it manages to reverse its population decline. “Our...
Loneliness, the silent killer
Doctors need to pay more attention to social isolation and loneliness (SIL) in treating patients, according to a “Perspective” article in the New England Journal...