“We haven’t had a full night’s sleep since our son was born eight years ago,” said Mrs. B, pointing to her son’s dry, red and itchy skin. Her son has had eczema his entire life. Also known as atopic dermatitis, this chronic skin disease affects about 1 in 5 children in the industrialized world. Some studies have found rates of eczema in developing nations to be over thirtyfold lower compared with industrialized nations. However, rates of eczema didn’t spike with the Industrial Revolution,...
GENEVA: More than 70 per cent of the global workforce is exposed to risks linked to climate change that cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, the International Labour Organization said on Monday, adding governments would need to act as the numbers rise. Workers, especially the world's poorest, are more vulnerable than the general population to the dangers of climate extremes such as heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and hurricanes because they are often the first exposed or exposed for...
In the social media era, pop artists with massive fanbases have become
NEW YORK (AP) — When he was elected two years ago as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, Alvin Bragg spoke candidly about his unease with the job’s political demands. A former law professor, he’s more comfortable untangling complex legal questions than swaggering up to a podium. But when the first of Donald Trump’s four criminal []
California is not tracking the billions in taxpayer dollars that have been poured into the homelessness crisis and the agency in charge has not established a process for keeping tabs on myriad programs and whether or not they work, the state’s auditor said Tuesday.
A MASTERCHEF contestant had a disaster after burning his dish TWICE during tonight’s show. This evening’s instalment of the BBC show saw three make it through to this week’s quart
DIABETES jab Ozempic and the weight-loss drug Wegovy have soared in popularity in recent months. But there has been concern that the class of drugs – called glucagon-like peptide-1 recep
Early Saturday morning listeners may have missed my weekend interview segment with Senator Colin Deacon. If you did, it was totally my fault. A typo in my posting instructions meant we didn’t get it online til late Saturday morning. But if you didn’t get a chance to listen, it’s still there, and it’s really worthwhile.
Two psychologists testified Wednesday that a Wisconsin woman who at age 12 stabbed a sixth-grade classmate nearly to death to please the online horror character Slender Man should not be released y
After President Biden joked about his rival former President Trump’s current financial woes, late night show host Jimmy Kimmel argued Tuesday that it was a pretty good jab for somebody so infamous for verbal gaffes. On Tuesday, Biden jokingly told a made-up story to a small crowd in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, "Just the other day, a defeated-looking guy came up to me and asked if I could help. He was drowning in debt. And I said, ‘I’m sorry, Donald, but I can’t help you.’" "That’s...
Bragg finds himself at the center of a political firestorm as he prepares to bring the first of Donald Trump’s four criminal prosecutions to trial.
Eight million Britons take statins to cut their cholesterol levels and protect them from a heart attack or stroke, and nine million are on drugs to reduce blood pressure.