Women ‘more likely to be told autoimmune conditions are psychological’
Cambridge University study suggests stark gender divide in misdiagnosis, with women also waiting longer for treatment Women with autoimmune conditions are up to 74% more likely than men to be told their symptoms are psychological or psychosomatic, and face much longer waits for a diagnosis and treatment, a study suggests. Hundreds of millions of people – about one in 10 globally – are affected by autoimmune conditions, which can cause a range of health issues including fatigue, muscle pain and rashes. Continue reading...
BBC asks judge to force Trump to sit for deposition as part of his $10bn lawsuit
BBC asks US federal judge to compel Trump’s lawyers to schedule deposition after his team canceled initial session The BBC is asking a federal judge in Florida to force Donald Trump to sit for a deposition as part of the president’s $10bn defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster. According to a Tuesday filing, the BBC and Trump’s legal team had agreed for him to be deposed on Friday. The BBC’s lawyers wrote to the judge that they have spent months trying to secure a location for the deposition from Trump’s team. Continue reading...
Why Did DOGE Exist? Now We Know.
Turns out, Elon Musk’s pimply minions didn’t actually want to cut government spending. They wanted to get a piece of it for themselves.
The IMF says we need to make ‘urgent choices’. But are they choices the Albanese government is willing to make? | Grogonomics
The IMF is not a body that needs to worry about elections or the political cost of interest rates or inflation * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The IMF on Tuesday released its latest World Economic Outlook, suggesting “Resilience Under Strain, Urgent Choices”. But the choices are ones a government wishing to win an election would likely ignore. The IMF, as a rule, always sees a need to cut spending and lower taxes. Given its history of lending money to countries in severe debt, that’s no shock, and, even if the austerity it prescribed ruined lives, the IMF is very much in the Margaret Thatcher “the medicine is harsh but the patient requires it” mould. Continue reading...
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