Heavy Light is the story of a mental breakdown, a journey through mania, psychosis, and treatment in a psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing. Heavy Light deal with a lifetime of ups and downs, from hypomania in the Alps to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, explaining how…
Peloton recalled its 126, 000 Tread+ and Tread Treadmills on Wednesday after the company admitted it was wrong to fight the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s request that it do so. The CPSC said that there has been one child died and 70 other injuries tied to the Peloton treadmills, although when the federal safety…
Ronilza Johnson 46, from Britain, has died in hospital after a Brazilian botched bum lift operation which costt her £1, 194 believed to have been injected with polymethyl methacrylate – known as PMMA, the plastic compound resin which is also used to make shatterproof windows. It can cause blood clots or infections if accidentally injected…
NHS England had urged Instagram to clamp down on accounts selling Apetamin, an unlicensed “ dangerous” drug especially targeted at younger women and girls. Doctors say misuse of the appetite stimulant can cause severe fatigue, jaundice and even liver failure. Social media influencers promoted Apetamin as a quick way to gain weight and develop an…
Brazil is trying to speed up its slow vaccination programme after it recorded over 400, 000 deaths the world’s second highest toll of the coronavirus pandemic. The government of Jair Bolsonaro is accused by critics of failing to buy and roll out vaccine doses early enough. Brazil’s health care works are beginning to deliver vaccines…
Three generations of the Sackler dynasty and their roles in the stories of the opioid Valium, and Opioid OxyContin, revealing misery, greed and pliant regulators and the abuse of philanthropy. Patrick Radden Keefe, a New Yorker writer and prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing, reveals the inside story. In 1980s, a small UK drugs company…
According to World Health Organisation (WHO), a significant number of people have long term effects from Coronavirus enduing very debilitating, leading many to be unable to work and function properly, as many are severely affected by the chronic condition of long Covid and face major challenges. Doctors and scientists are focusing to solve this medical…
Lazenby Court in Covent Garden used to lead a small courtyard surrounded by houses, but the rebuilding of the area in the 1860s to extend Hart Street now renamed Floral Street. The narrow passage and the famous Lamb and Flag Pub. In Tudor times, when all around here were still fields, the building is actually…
Pickled cucumbers were dyed green with copper-based dyes, which most people failed to realise that the green copper dyes were extremely poisonous, in Victorian England. Fertilizer produced by sucking nitrogen out of the air now sustains about half the population of the globe, as farmers worldwide depend on the data spewing from 160 environmental satellite…
Covid 19 officially known as B.1.617 was first detected in India back in October. Sample testing is not widespread enough across India to determine how far or quickly the variant is spreading. It was detected in 220 out of 361 Covid samples collected between January and March in the western Indian state of Maharashtra and…