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Agencies Warn on Anti-Biotic Resistance Bugs

Posted on 5 Dec 2024 in Health

Digital One, a community radio station in North Somerset, says that local and national leaders in sexual health have warned that, as part of general trends towards bacteria becoming resistant to treatment, so gonorrhoea has become harder to treat in recent years. The latest figures for England show there were 85,223 cases of gonorrhoea diagnosed in 2023.

Celebrating Elizabeth Taylor's Allyship

Posted on 24 Nov 2024 in Health

Elizabeth Taylor, the Hollywood legend, is celebrated in a retro post from the magazine Into. The LGBTQIA+ online portal's Henry Giardina looks back at her time as one of the first high profile activists for AIDS research and care, when that syndrome was rocking

New Gender Identity Clinics to Come Online

Posted on 22 Nov 2024 in Health

The BBC News Channel reports that Six new regional centres created to support under 18s struggling with their gender identity will open over the next two years, according to the NHS in England. They will join two existing clinics, as part of an overhaul of gender services for ch

Mental Health Promos Air on ITV Networks

Posted on 20 Nov 2024 in Health

Secularists Urge End to Circumcision

Posted on 11 Nov 2024 in Health

The National Secular Society, which campaigns against religious infiltration into the life of the state and society, has called on NHS Scotland to follow England and Wales Health Services in not offering to circumcise infant boys just to adhere to a parents' reli

Nov

BMA Expresses Concern at Lies in Cass Report

The British Medical Association, a professional network which represents the majority of GPs and specialist doctors in the UK, has expressed concerns about the validity of the Cass Review into Tran

Nov

LGBTQIA+ Support for Drug Reforms

It would be fair to say that many in the LGBTQIA+ communities take a liberal or libertarian approach to regulation of marijuana, recognising the benefits of the drug in many areas of physical and e

Oct

Call for Earlier Cervical Cancer Screening

Sandra Telfair writes on the Change.org petition website why she is campaigning for age at which routine cervical screening is offered to women be lowered. Sandra says "My daughte

Oct

Movember WIll Take on Male Issues

Listeners to Virgin Radio's group of stations, which include Anthems and Virgin Chilled as well as other online and DAB channels, will have heard the first promoti

Oct

Marking World Mental Health Day

We stay with media, where we were alerted by long running Birmingham based commercial radio station BRMB that as we go out on Thursday October 10th, it is World Mental Heal