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Scientific innovations harness noise and acoustics for healing
From the original stethoscope, invented more than 200 years ago, to the fleeting chirp of gravitational waves, sound has reverberated throughout the history of technological and scientific advances.
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Plastic Free July: How to use less plastic or go plastic-free
This month marks Plastic Free July, where people are being encouraged to use less plastic, or to go completely plastic-free.
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Reimagining survival – Better cancer diagnostics and treatments are in the works
Cancer is a disease of the ages. For 4,000 years, humans have noted its destructive effects. Hippocrates dubbed the enemy Karkinos, for crab, because cancerous tumors are often firmly embedded in normal tissue, surrounded by “legs” of snaking blood vessels that deliver nutrients and oxygen.
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Mindfulness for Cancer course by Penny Brohn UK and NCIM Healthcare
Penny Brohn UK partnered with NCIM Healthcare to deliver mindfulness courses for cancer patients & supporters with funding from Macmillan.
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Broadening Diversity and Inclusion in Personalised Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine
The shift in prevalence from acute to chronic diseases is creating an unsustainable burden on healthcare systems. Such diseases tend to be of longer duration, and there is a growing recognition that many of today’s chronic or non-communicable diseases are the result of complex and lifelong interactions between diet, environment, lifestyle, and genes.
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WHO pledges extensive commitments towards women’s empowerment and health
The World Health Organization announced multiple commitments to drive change for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity at the Generation Equality Forum, held last week in Paris. The WHO commitments focused on ending gender-based violence; advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights; and supporting health workers as well as feminist movements and leadership.
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The Food Revolution Debate: what people think and what the pandemic means
Before the pandemic, the public were already becoming more aware of the injustices within our food system. The conversation was evolving beyond just farmers and farm workers and becoming broader to include all labour in the food industry.
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What if everyone’s nutrition was personalised?
How the mass adoption of personalised nutrition is changing people’s health - and the food industry.
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Gross Domestic Wellbeing: loosening GDP’s hold
GDP – Gross Domestic Product – appeared for a long time to have a stranglehold over debates on economic progress and society’s welfare. It’s been the single number that people most often turn to and quote at each other; it’s used to claim political success or berate political failure; and it’s used as the basis of comparisons between countries.
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The Environment Bill Enters Committee Stage
The Environment Bill is starting its Committee Stage in the House of Lords with amendments debated on significant issues including pesticides, soil health and supply chains for consideration.
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Let’s make Britain energy independent
Moving to 100% green energy is essential if we’re going to beat the climate crisis. But it also has other benefits, helping countries across the world be self-reliant when it comes to the energy they need.
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Finding meaning in the hard work of farming and growing: What will drive the next generation?
My husband Nathan Richards and I run a small-scale organic farm in West Wales that specialises in edible horticulture and we are currently looking for an assistant grower. Having lost our last assistant grower after about a year and half of employment, we have been posting the job description pretty much anywhere we can for more than three months now.
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