How factors like your location, job or ethnicity can damage your health

The skyline of Middlesbrough town centre, with industrial cooling towers in the background Health inequalities are avoidable differences in health across our populations. You can suffer health inequalities because of where you were born or live, your ethnicity, or even because of your job.  Sadly, they are persistent within our communities and their causes are … Read more

New HHS Report Urges ‘Exploratory Therapy’ for Transgender Youth

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report on Thursday, May 1, aiming to discredit gender-affirming-care and instead encouraging transgender and nonbinary individuals to try “exploratory therapy”—or psychotherapy—and stating that mental health care alone is a way to treat gender dysphoria in children. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “There is a dearth of research … Read more

Is Seltzer Water Good or Bad for You?

On the hierarchy of healthy beverages, seltzer bubbles up to the top. Research has found that sparkling water (another name for seltzer) is just as hydrating as still water, and the human body absorbs it the same way. After all, seltzer is little more than plain water infused with carbon dioxide gas to make it … Read more