Consumer Attitudes & Behavior

The study involved more than one million adult patients who had 25 common elective and emergency surgeries between 2007 and 2019.

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‘When we have high levels of homelessness and not enough shelter beds for people . . . the emergency department is the shelter of last resort. It’s the warming centre of last resort.’

Liposunction and breast augmentation top the list for most common surgeries.

Only 6.4 meals per week are cooked at home worldwide in 2021.

Outside scientists said the situation warranted close monitoring, but were not convinced that the recent spike in respiratory illnesses in China signaled the start of a new global outbreak.

The researchers found that the hallucinogenic psilocybin was associated with a ‘rapid and sustained antidepressant effect.’

Preston Manning, the former head of the Reform Party, made the pitch last week in an email sent to Conservative MPs on the same day the report from the panel he chaired was published.