A pre-teen girl and her father consult with a female doctor.

The use of puberty blocking drugs to treat adolescents with gender dysphoria or incongruence has recently come under scrutiny following a decision by the UK High Court. Three judges ruled that children under 16 were unlikely to be able to give informed consent to undergo such treatment. The case hasContinue Reading

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How to manage pain during childbirth: what the research says

There are many ways to control pain. Ken Tackett/Shutterstock.com Women have always used different methods to try and reduce pain during childbirth. Over the years these methods have included inhaling opiates, a warm compress, magical charms and even sprinkling animal dung in a hot drink. Anaesthesia started to be usedContinue Reading

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Learning to cope with uncertainty during COVID-19

artbesouro/Shutterstock Over the past nine months, the word “uncertainty” has cropped up time and time again across the news and social media worldwide. The pandemic has created uncertainty in nearly every aspect of daily life. This is not only down to worries over exposure to COVID-19 and access to medicalContinue Reading

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg.

Nobody has officially claimed responsibility for deploying the satellite-controlled machine-gun with “artificial intelligence” used to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Tehran at the end of November. But you would get fairly short odds were you to take a bet on it being the Mossad, Israel’s aggressive – andContinue Reading

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