Jan Radford

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#Academic GP. Educator. #Primarycare researcher:practice-based research networks, #bigdata, #implementation, #CKD, #FH, #exercise. #MedEd researcher: residential aged care, inter-professional practice. Toot on #health (defined broadly), #science, #Tasmania and reading recommendations. She/her living in Lutruwita (Tasmania) https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/health/janette-radford
More than an hour of exercise a week may help with ‘baby blues’, says study

Moderate exercise such as brisk walking may almost halve new mothers’ risk of major depression, analysis suggests

The Guardian
UK austerity policies ‘increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies’

Exclusive: Researchers who studied babies in Scotland believe cuts to benefits and services are linked to rise

The Guardian
Less sugar in first 1,000 days of life protects against chronic disease, study finds

Risk of diabetes and high blood pressure significantly lower in middle age in UK adults given low-sugar diets in the womb and as infants

The Guardian
Curbing Australia’s salt intake with new WHO limits could save almost 3,000 lives in a decade, study says

WHO food scientist says relying on voluntary measures to reduce salt in the country’s food supply is not enough

The Guardian
Australia's top neurologists call for chemical regulator to ban paraquat herbicide over links with Parkinson's disease

Dozens of neurologists are calling on the Australian chemicals regulator to ban paraquat, a toxic herbicide that has been linked to the development of Parkinson's disease.

ABC News
A huge study of #LongCovid in South Korea and Japan
shows a pronounced increase of Guillain-Barré syndrome, cognitive deficit, insomnia, anxiety disorder, encephalitis, ischemic stroke and mood disorder. Reduced by vaccination
https://nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01895-8
Walking three times a week ‘nearly halves’ recurrence of low back pain

Australian research finds people who walked three to five times weekly stayed pain-free almost twice as long

The Guardian

@damemagazine covered the rise of the “trad wife” influencer — where it come from, and why it’s dangerous. “A 2022 Ipsos poll found that almost half of American men surveyed believe “traditional masculinity” is under threat. Many blame feminism, saying it has done more harm than good. One in five Gen Z and Millennial men now believe violence against women is often provoked by the victim,” writes Sarah Stankorb.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/05/30/the-insidious-trap-of-the-tradwife-movement/

#Feminism #TradWife #Influencers #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

The Insidious Trap of the “Tradwife Movement” - Dame Magazine

Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction has been overturned. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments concerning Idaho laws that limit abortion only to cases of impending maternal mortality. The law is unclear: How close to death must she be before receiving this healthcare? Kansas City Chiefs football-kicking expert Harrison Butker took the occasion of

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‘Everybody has not won’: trickle-down economics was an idiotic idea. How do we fix the inequality it causes? - The Conversation AU https://apple.news/AczZ8cmp4QwCUghBjoB2MlQ
‘Everybody has not won’: trickle-down economics was an idiotic idea. How do we fix the inequality it causes? — The Conversation AU

Forty years of the neoliberal experiment have created a world of vast and increasing inequality. But this can and should change.

"SARS-CoV-2 infection should be considered as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, even though the distinction between causation versus disease acceleration is not clear. “

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(24)00178-9/abstract