CHEATING Matt Hancock has told his I’m A Celebrity campmates about his lockdown-busting affair — prompting Babatunde Aleshe to say: “You were grabbing booty, bruv.” The disgraced MP opened up about being forced to quit as Health Secretary last year when The Sun exposed his Covid rules-breaking affair with aideContinue Reading

COVID, flu, RSV – how this triple threat of respiratory viruses could collide this winter

Dragana Gordic/Shutterstock As the days get shorter and the weather colder in the northern hemisphere, health officials have warned of a perfect storm of infectious respiratory diseases over the winter months. Outbreaks of seasonal diseases like influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are already putting pressure on the overburdened NHS.Continue Reading

Three ways to become more resilient to failure

Resilience can be built in a variety of ways. fizkes/ Shutterstock Failure may be an inevitable part of life, but that doesn’t make it any less painful when it does happen. It can be be particularly hard facing setbacks in your 20s and 30s, since this is the first timeContinue Reading

Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor – The Conversation Weekly podcast transcript

Research into psychedelics and their medical uses is making a comeback. 24K-Production via Shutterstock This is a transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episode: Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor, published on September 29, 2022. NOTE: Transcripts may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quotingContinue Reading

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As the US midterm election results roll in, it’s evident that the Republican “red wave” that many experts anticipated hasn’t materialised. Early numbers indicate that Republicans are likely to take back the House of Representatives but by slimmer numbers than expected, even as the US Senate remains a toss-up. WhileContinue Reading