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Canada starts three-year pilot to decriminalise hard drugs
The Canadian province of British Columbia is starting a first-in-the-nation trial decriminalising small amounts of hard drugs like cocaine and heroin, starting this week...
Menopause leave trial rejected by UK Ministers
British Ministers have rejected a proposal from MPs to introduce “menopause leave” pilots in England, arguing it could be “counterproductive”, and simultaneously dismissed a...
Landmark US health body decision on collision sports link to CTE
In a landmark move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest biomedical research agency, has formally acknowledged a clear causal link...
Critical need for national strategy to address chronic surgical backlog
National Department of Health statistics reveal that more than 107,000 non-emergency or elective surgeries were put on the back burner during the COVID-19 pandemic....
NHS removes words ‘woman’ and ‘women’ from menopause page
In what many may consider to be completely over the top in political correctness, the NHS has removed the words “woman” and “women” from...
UK pharmacists and therapists now also allowed to issue sick notes
Under new legislation in Britain, nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists will be able to issue fit notes, giving workers more flexibility when seeking necessary...