Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks is still a master
The Book Club has been reading Iain M. Banks’s The Player of GamesColin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images The New Scientist ...
Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer is winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award for the best science fiction novel of ...
The challenges of writing from the perspective of a sex robot
Annie Bot is literally programmed to please her owner DougLeon Steele/Millennium Images, UK Not being a sex robot myself, I ...
Head Injuries Tied to Increased Risk for Suicide Attempts
Individuals who experience a head injury have a 21% greater likelihood of attempting suicide later in life than those without ...
Prediabetes Remission Halves MI and HF Risk, Lancet Study
The study harmonized two landmark cohorts and compared outcomes by remission status, improving comparability and generalizability. Medscape News Europe Source ...
Murder victim discovered to have two sets of DNA due to rare condition
Blood at a crime scene that contained a Y chromosome led to a rare discoveryShutterstock/PeopleImages The forensic examination of a ...
Viral Self-Care Hack Can Build Healthy Habits
Share on Pinterest“Wellness stacking” combines several simple self-care practices together to complete them in one intentional block of time. Image ...
Diabetes Guidelines: Match Therapies to Patient Phenotypes
Clinical trials underrepresent women, children, and adults aged 65 years or older, so diabetes guidelines must be adapted to patient ...
No Reset: When a Clinical Mindset Takes Over Your Whole Life
Physicians are trained to anticipate every negative outcome. But that mindset can follow you home, fueling anxiety and eroding your ...
Med Op-Ed: Avalanche Survival, HFpEF Skepticism, and More
A device you might want with you in an avalanche; why heart failure with preserved ejection fraction may be seen ...
Chickenpox vaccines for children on NHS starts across UK
Philippa Roxby and Smitha MundasadHealth reportersGetty ImagesAll young children in the UK can now be offered protection against chickenpox for ...
Should the NHS really use magic mushrooms to treat mental health?
Pallab GhoshScience CorrespondentBBCListen to Pallab Ghosh read this articleLarissa Hope truly believes that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, ...
Chess can be made fairer by rearranging the pieces
Changing the rules of chess can make the game more complexRichard Levine/Alamy Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions ...
Rare Saturn-sized rogue planet is first to have its mass measured
Artist’s impression of the free-floating planet lensing light from a distant sourceJ. Skowron/OGLE Nearly 10,000 light years away, a planet ...
Is Finnish Diabetes Care Meeting Patient Needs?
Individuals with diabetes in Finland face major gaps in albuminuria screening and pharmacologic management, with those with type 1 diabetes ...
Weight-Loss Interventions Boost Psoriasis Treatment Outcomes
A systematic review and meta-analysis finds that weight-loss interventions are associated with decreased psoriasis severity and improved quality of life. ...
Kidney Disease Risk Common in Patients With Down Syndrome
The incidence of kidney disease is substantially higher in patients with Down syndrome than in control individuals from the general ...
How to cultivate a positive mindset
Not stopping on a run when you feel the urge helps practise self-controlmiljko/Getty Images Olivia Remes is a mental health ...
Israel Will Halt Doctors Without Borders Operations in Gaza
(MedPage Today) -- Israel on Tuesday said it had suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders ...
New CMS Demo Aims to Increase Access to GLP-1s Under Medicaid and Part D
(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration announced a new demonstration program aimed at easing access to GLP-1 receptor agonists for ...
