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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 1h

Almost 4,000 people in England and Wales are taking legal action over what they allege is six years of sewage pollution that has devastated three rivers, including the Wye.

Thousands take legal action over ‘widespread pollution’ of three UK rivers

Environmental group seeks damages from Welsh Water and two chicken producers, alleging responsibility for pollution in Wye, Lugg and Usk

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 4h

Authorities in Japan are taking action against excessive smartphone use.

‘It made my day more meaningful’: the Japanese gen Zers attempting a two-hour limit on smartphone use

Authorities in Japan are taking action against excessive phone time – but what is it like to restrict scrolling to 120 minutes a day?

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 9h

Scientists say they have developed the world’s first blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 22h

The leader of one of the largest academy trusts in England has described the Department for Education’s failure to do any planning for school closures before lockdown in March 2020 as “an extraordinary dereliction of duty”.

Lack of school closure plan ‘an extraordinary dereliction of duty’, Covid inquiry told

Academy trust head Jon Coles says he nearly fell off his chair when Gavin Williamson said no plan was in place

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 1d

The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray.

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 1d

The NHS and social care would cease to function under the government’s new rules to be imposed on foreign staff, nursing leaders have said, as hundreds of medics condemned the policy as “divisive and xenophobic”.

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 2d

People with sore joints who exercise for two hours a week have less pain, visit their GP less and take less sick leave, a study has found.

Two hours of exercise a week reduces joint pain and visits to GP

Study looks at how workouts can help those with hip, knee and back pain – and benefit UK economy to tune of £34bn

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 4d

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has fired a top scientist at the National Institutes of Health three weeks after she filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump administration over its hostility towards vaccines.

RFK Jr fires top NIH scientist weeks after she files whistleblower complaint

Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump administration’s hostility toward vaccines

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 7d

Researchers have created human eggs from skin cells, potentially transforming IVF treatment for couples who have no other options.

Human skin cells are turned into eggs in fertility breakthrough

Scientists say their early-stage work could help older women or same-sex male couples have children

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 8d

The Covid pandemic disrupted the “very fabric of childhood”, the UK inquiry has heard, on the first day of a four-week session devoted to its impact on children and young people.

Covid school closures in UK damaged ‘very fabric of childhood’

Inquiry hears of children exposed to pornography and suffering ‘grievous’ harm without protection of schools

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 9d

Britain’s second-biggest drugmaker GSK has announced the surprise departure of its chief executive, Emma Walmsley, after eight years in the top job.

GSK’s Emma Walmsley to be replaced as chief executive

Chief commercial officer Luke Miels to take over as CEO at Britain’s second-biggest drugmaker in surprise move

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 9d

Early results from a clinical trial suggest that a common diabetes drug taken with an antihistamine can partially repair damage in the nervous system that drives disability in multiple sclerosis.

‘Exciting’ clinical results offer hope for new class of MS therapies

Cambridge trial suggests diabetes drug with antihistamine can partially repair damage in the nervous system

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 9d

Being organised, active and helpful could not just make you a better person, it may even help you live longer.

Being organised and active may be predictor of longer life, study finds

Researchers find specific self-descriptions predict mortality risks better than broader categories such as extraversion

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 11d

The British government has been criticised for tiptoeing around Trump on all manner of issues. But not, it seems, on this.

‘Don’t trust Trump’: how UK health experts are fighting back against a war on medicine

Ministers and medical groups have acted quickly to limit fallout after US president made unproven link between paracetamol and autism

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 12d

Ministers have handed firms £6m in contracts to help devise plans to build a network of new NHS clinics using private capital, despite fears the move could turn into a PFI-style disaster.

Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics

Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build ‘neighbourhood health centres’ in England

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 12d

Civilians in Gaza have sustained injuries of a type and on a scale more usually seen among professional soldiers involved in intense combat operations, research has found.

Civilian injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds

Wounds such as burns or leg injuries are more common in Gaza than among US soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 12d

A drug that provides near-perfect protection against HIV with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope for ending the HIV epidemic.

Cheap supplies of HIV-prevention jab for poorer countries hailed as ‘genuine chance to end’ global epidemic

Lenacapavir described as ‘next best thing’ to an HIV vaccine will cost $40 a year for each patient in 120 countries from 2027, funders say

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 13d

World leaders have unveiled new targets to cut planet-heating pollution at the United Nations, in a bid to spur fresh impetus to the beleaguered climate effort a day after Donald Trump called the crisis “the greatest con job ever perpetrated upon the world”.

‘Science demands action’: world leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite Trump’s attacks

Leaders unveil new targets to cut planet-heating pollution after Trump called climate crisis a ‘con job’

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 13d

Huntington’s disease, a devastating degenerative illness that runs in families, has been treated successfully for the first time in a breakthrough gene therapy trial.

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in UK gene therapy trial

Surgical procedure to treat devastating illness slowed progress of disease by 75% in patients after three years

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 14d

The few remaining hospitals and clinics in central and southern Gaza are being overwhelmed by a “tsunami” of injured and sick patients fleeing a new Israeli offensive in the north of the devastated territory, medics say.

‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south

‘Not enough of anything’, says surgeon, as Israel’s assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 16d

Ministers are drawing up plans to give mayors significant new powers over hospitals and schools as part of a new wave of devolution that could change how public services are run in England.

Ministers could give mayors control of schools and hospitals in devolution shake-up

Exclusive: Steve Reed, backed by Labour Together, wants to devolve control over more local services

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 18d

Labour’s radical reorganisation of the NHS has descended into chaos, a union has said, as a huge programme of job cuts has been halted amid a row over who will foot the £1bn bill.

NHS integrated care boards halt job cuts in row over £1bn cost

Integrated care boards in England cannot afford severance payments, leaving restructuring plan in chaos, union says

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 19d

Heston Blumenthal has come up with a new menu to reflect a growing demand for smaller portions, driven by weight-loss drugs.

The Thin Duck: Heston Blumenthal’s new menu for diners on weight-loss jabs

‘Sometimes, less really is more,’ says chef as Michelin-starred restaurant offers Mindful Experience option

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 19d

Ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, a report from the London assembly has said, to boost cleanliness of the capital’s waterways and increase access to the outdoors.

Ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, report says

London assembly committee says move will increase cleanliness of waterways and offer more access to outdoors

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 19d

More than a quarter of a million people have been displaced from Gaza City in the last month, according to figures from the UN, with tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in the face of a new Israeli offensive.

More than 250,000 displaced from Gaza City in past month, UN figures show

Tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in face of new Israeli offensive

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