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People are being urged to “connect with nature” at the launch of a two-week festival to celebrate Exmoor National Park. The Exmoor Nature Festival runs from 17 May to 1 June and features activities including nature walks, art sessions and yoga. The organisers said they hoped participants word be “inspired to help us look after this very special landscape”. Experts …

In the 1940s vulnerable hospital patients were fed sugar to see if their teeth decayed Source link

Sam Francis Political reporter Harry Farley Political correspondent Getty Images MPs will debate a bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales for the first time since significant changes were made to it. The bill passed the first stage of the Commons last November – but since then the details have been pored over and dozens of amendments added …

Getty Images The government ignored an early warning by two Nobel prize-winning scientists that all healthcare workers should be routinely tested for coronavirus in the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has heard. The advice came in a strongly-worded letter sent in April 2020 by the chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, Sir Paul Nurse, and its research director, Sir Peter …

What is causing the rise of measles cases around the world? Source link

What is causing the rise of measles cases around the world? Source link

In 2013 a new tax was approved in one of the world’s biggest consumers of fizzy drinks Source link

Michael Buchanan Senior Social Affairs Correspondent BBC News Family pictures MPs looked at the cases of Philippa Day (L) and Errol Graham (R) who both died after DWP errors in managing their benefits MPs are calling for a change in the law to prevent benefit claimants from suffering harm at the hands of the government department that is meant to …

Government lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday that the Trump administration intends to deport a Harvard scientist back to Russia, a country she fled in 2022, despite her fear that she will be arrested there over her protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, has been held in a Louisiana immigration detention …

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a defiant defense on Wednesday of his drastic overhaul of federal health agencies as House Democrats accused him of violating the law by shuttering whole divisions and cutting funding appropriated by Congress for medical research. “We are not withholding money for lifesaving research,” Mr. Kennedy insisted. After a fiery back and forth, Representative …