Technology
Ten NHS staff have been removed from duty over one child’s medical records
An East Suffolk and North Essex trust has suspended or stood down ten employees after unauthorised access to a three-year-old’s digital…
Tanmay Das
Technology
Bangladesh’s dairy carbon footprint is 27% lower than anyone had assumed, and the reason is not what you would guess
A five-year study at Bangladesh Agricultural University, published with the University of Connecticut, found the real figure is 27% below…
Technology
Starship goes for orbit for the first time today — and loses the safety net it has had for 13 flights
Thirteen test flights, nearly half ending in some kind of explosion, all deliberately kept on a trajectory that would bring the vehicle…
Health
A physiotherapist’s guide to choosing a pillow: it depends entirely on how you sleep
Dr Chris McCarthy travels with his own pillow and is not embarrassed about it. The right one, he says, depends on whether you sleep on your…
Health
People are paying salons to make their nails look untouched. Critics say that is the point
A London salon owner describes customers who want the full treatment and no polish. The trend is read as quiet luxury — and as a status…
Technology
Two thousand NHS staff have been sanctioned for reading records they had no reason to open. Now suspicion alone means suspension
England’s health service will suspend staff and cut their system access the moment they are suspected of looking up a record without a…
Health
A brain tumour diagnosis used to take up to eight weeks. A new NHS test does it in two hours, during surgery
The test reads the tumour’s genetic code while the operation is still under way, so surgeons know what they are dealing with before they…
Health
Young adults are swapping the treadmill for the weights rack, and Sport England’s numbers back it up
More young adults are using gyms, machines and weights than nine years ago. A Manchester trainer says her younger clients now ask about…
World
A jet with an anteater’s nose and a cockpit so far back the pilot flies by camera
The X-59 is designed to flatten the sonic boom that kept Concorde off routes across the US. It is the latest in a line of experimental NASA…
Technology
A mother typed her daughter’s symptoms into ChatGPT. The diagnosis it pointed to affects six people in the UK
Lily is 19 months old and has Multisystemic Smooth Muscle Dysfunction Syndrome, known in only about 70 people worldwide. Her family says AI…
Health
She thought it was IBS. It was a rare ovarian cancer, and within a month the cyst was the size of a football
Lisa Carroll was 47 and back from a family holiday when the pain started. A 12cm cyst was found and judged not particularly sinister. A…
World
A 4.5kg bag of whey protein cost £60 in 2020. The same bag is now £170
Amarpreet Singh has been drinking protein shakes since he was 16. Fourteen years later they are still part of his routine, and the price of…