The Political Clout of the Meat Industry: How the $900 billion business has been influencing government nutrition guidelines for decades
Source: theatlantic.com
UN scientist Jacquie McGlade raps UK over renewables - BBC News: The UK government's cuts in support for renewable energy are criticised by the UN's chief environment scientist, Prof Jacquie McGlade.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Nearly 77 percent of pulmonary clinical trials failed to report race and ethnicity data: Researchers from Duke University and Durham Veteran Affairs Medical Center have found that nearly 77 percent of pulmonary clinical trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov failed to report race and ethnicity data,...
Source: eurekalert.org
Home Office letter and statement from the Migration Advisory Service (MAC) on nurse shortages - Publications - GOV.UK
Source: www.gov.uk
California to enact comprehensive medical marijuana regulations: California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday signed into law the state's first comprehensive regulations of medical marijuana, two decades after legalization fueled a wild west of disparate local rules, a gray market in cultivation and concerns...
Source: reuters.com
NASA Earth Observatory : : This photograph shows one of the few places on Earth where an international boundary can be seen at night.
Source: nasa.gov
APOD: 2015 October 1 - Eclipsed in Southern Skies
Source: nasa.gov
Australians' experiences with access to health care in 2013–14. "Nearly 10% ... avoided seeing a GP due to cost" in some parts of Australia.
(Sample sizes are not quoted in the release but, from another report, it looks like the original survey was of 36,000 Australians aged 15 and over.)
The...
Source: myhealthycommunities.gov.au
APOD: 2015 September 29 - Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and Lightning Storm
Source: nasa.gov
Irish marchers demand referendum on legalising abortion: Thousands gather in capital to put pressure on government to call referendum on liberalising law after next general election
Source: theguardian.com
NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars: New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.
Source: nasa.gov
Everyone should read what this man has to say about the refugee crisis: The British government has announced it will take in 20,000 refugees from camps in Syria and its neighbouring states.
Source: independent.co.uk
Although heavy going at times I attended an interesting update on Vitamin D at Truro today. Basically Vitamin D seems ... well ... vital not only for bones but for soft tissues as well(1). It would be interesting to explore the relationship with diabetes, Type 1 in particular, in more detail. I had been...