by editor | Apr 26, 2019 | Top Page Links
The number of UK teens requesting help for anxiety has increased by a third in just the past two years, and NHS has yet to respond with more funding or support for adolescent mental health. In the BMJ, Collette Isabel Stadler calls out the NHS for its shoddy...
by editor | Apr 26, 2019 | Top Page Links
The Wellcome Trust’s Jeremy Farrar is all but begging for action to shore up the failing antibiotics market. Decades of weak investment in antibiotics has left “perilously few” companies involved in antibiotic development—a market crisis unfolding alongside the...
by editor | Apr 26, 2019 | Top Page Links
by Daniel McGroarty TES GeoPolicy Editor There’s a shortage in arable farmland – a challenge we’ll take on in future pieces at The Economic Standard – but there’s plenty of room to farm up rather than out, via vertical farming. As you’re clearly...
by editor | Apr 26, 2019 | Top Page Links
One-third of China’s pig herd–130 million pigs—is infected with African swine fever, and the government is being less than transparent about it. But it’s not the usual Beijing blackout. In this case, it actually appears that decentralization is partly responsible...
by editor | Apr 26, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Vanora Bennett, TES Europe Editor Like a bad dream or late era Monty Python sketch, the slow-motion insanity that is Brexit continues with no end in sight. No option appears to command sufficient support in Parliament, reflecting the...
by editor | Apr 24, 2019 | Top Page Links
by Vanora Bennett, TES Contributor The news that comes out of the radio and TV in and on Britain these days can be summarized in one B-word, and it’s not Brexit. It’s bewilderment. The same Brexit phrases and slogans are endlessly repeated: amendment, amendment,...