This article was previously published January 15, 2015, and has been updated with new information. The effects of stress on your mental and physical health are being studied more intensively these days. Anxiety can be considered a type of stress response, typically involving a sense of fear, dread, or apprehension. A brief period of anxiety… Read More »
For thousands of years, people looked into the night sky with their naked eyes — and told stories about the few visible stars. Then we invented telescopes. In 1840, the philosopher Thomas Carlyle claimed that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” Then we started posting on Twitter. Now scientists… Read More »
NHS Covid app ‘may WRONGLY tell a THIRD of users to self-isolate’ after incorrectly reading 2m social-distance – as it emerges more than three million Britons with iPhone 6 or older models CAN’T download it due to iOS issue Risk of false positives stems from the app’s reliance on Bluetooth signals Government insists the new… Read More »
The European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health (ESC) recently published a position paper on sexual and reproductive health issues (‘The Madrid Declaration: promoting evidence-based SRHR policies with respect for human rights’). We spoke to Dr Cristian Furau, a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology in Arad, Romania, and member of the ESC board, about the… Read More »