It was a few days before my 21st birthday in 2017 when my mother pointed out a small lump on my chest. I was weightlifting…
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Commonwealth health ministries under pressure amid rise in climate-related illnesses
Climate change is now the biggest concern facing health ministers in Commonwealth countries, the organisation’s secretary general has warned. Patricia Scotland said it was…
View More Commonwealth health ministries under pressure amid rise in climate-related illnessesGoogle to start permanently deleting users’ location history
Google will delete everything it knows about users’ previously visited locations, the company has said, a year after it committed to reducing the amount of…
View More Google to start permanently deleting users’ location historyOne in four young children at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm due to poor diet – report
One young child in four globally has a diet so restricted it is likely to harm their growth, brain development and chances of survival, according…
View More One in four young children at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm due to poor diet – reportMore intense, frequent tropical cyclones may devastate seabird colonies – study
Increased tropical cyclones due to global heating could lead to dramatic declines in seabird populations, according to a new study. Scientists found that after…
View More More intense, frequent tropical cyclones may devastate seabird colonies – studyCelebrate, remember and reframe: the therapy sessions healing South Africa’s women
Red curtains and ceiling drapes create a pink-tinged glow inside the run-down community centre, an hour south of Johannesburg, where Palesa Hlohlolo tells her neighbours…
View More Celebrate, remember and reframe: the therapy sessions healing South Africa’s womenI told my high school friend we’d battle sickle cell together. But she didn’t make it past 18
In my first year of high school, a girl called Barbara Diero and I were often mistaken for sisters. We had similar features: tall, slender…
View More I told my high school friend we’d battle sickle cell together. But she didn’t make it past 18‘They wanted her to confess to witchcraft’: ending the chilling effects of dementia stigma in Nigeria
Early one Sunday morning in January 2020, Dr Temitope Farombi was told a woman in her 70s was in trouble and she needed to come…
View More ‘They wanted her to confess to witchcraft’: ending the chilling effects of dementia stigma in Nigeria‘It just didn’t work’: how businesses are struggling with re-useable packaging
For several months last year, patrons of a Seattle coffee shop called Tailwind Cafe had the option of ordering their americanos and lattes in a…
View More ‘It just didn’t work’: how businesses are struggling with re-useable packagingA sense of optimism and the chance to chat: how Bogotá is giving respect to unpaid carers
Adela Rubiano Hurtado does not feel there was a point when she made the decision to care for her granddaughter. It was just that when…
View More A sense of optimism and the chance to chat: how Bogotá is giving respect to unpaid carers