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[ad_1] After 30 years as one of England’s top pediatricians, Dr. Hilary Cass was hoping to begin her retirement by learning to play the saxophone. Instead, she took on a project that would throw her into an international fire: reviewing England’s treatment guidelines for the rapidly rising number of children with gender distress, known as dysphoria. At the time, in 2020, England’s sole youth gender clinic was in disarray. The waiting list had swelled, leaving many young patients waiting years for an appointment. Staff members who said they felt pressure to approve children for puberty-blocking drugs had filed whistle-blower complaints that had spilled into public view. And a former patient had sued the clinic, claiming that she had transitioned as a teenager “after a series of superficial conversations with social workers.” The National Health Service asked Dr. Cass, who had never treated children with gender dysphoria but had served as the president of the Royal College of Pedia

[ad_1] NEW YORK: Oil prices rose about 1% to a nine-month high on Friday on rising US diesel futures and worries about tight oil supplies after Saudi Arabia and Russia extended voluntary cuts this week. Brent futures rose 76 cents, or 0.9%, to $90.68 a barrel by 1608 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose 67 cents, or 0.8%, to $87.54. Both crude benchmarks remained technically overbought for a sixth day in a row, with Brent on track for its highest close since November 16 and WTI since November 11. For the week, both benchmarks were up about 3% after Brent gained about 5% last week and WTI gained about 7% last week. Also read Of rising oil prices and the devaluing rupee This week, Saudi Arabia and Russia extended their voluntary supply cuts of a combined 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) to the end of the year. Saudi Arabia will probably find it difficult to end its cuts at the end of the year without triggering a price slide, Commerzbank analysts said in a not

[ad_1] ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government has kicked off work on a two-pronged strategy for the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), which comes in the backdrop of a payment dispute with Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) over gas supplies. A major outstanding issue before sell-off is the requirement of no-objection certificate (NOC) and the vacation of charge by SSGC from core operating assets, including the core land, plant, machinery and building. The matter is pending resolution between the Ministry of Industries and Production, PSM and SSGC. The Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCOP) has recently directed the Privatisation Commission to take all measures for resolving the pending issues and develop a clean plan of action for privatisation of the steel mill. During the CCOP meeting, it was pointed out that PSM was Pakistan’s largest integrated steel manufacturing plant with a designed production capacity of 1.1 million tons per annum and the potential to expand

[ad_1] IAS officers should have the quality of morally accepting responsibility for their actions. Applicants for UPSC need to have a specified set of traits in addition to the usual qualifying requirements. Below, we have shared 5 significant qualities every IAS should have. Being an IAS officer requires more than academic qualifications. It is a very difficult and demanding job that calls for a special set of abilities. One needs to have a blend of academic, emotional and social skills to succeed in the given field. Anyone preparing for the UPSC examination must uphold the highest standards in all decisions and acts. Applicants for the UPSC exam need to have a specified set of traits in addition to the usual qualifying requirements. Below we have shared 5 significant characteristics that the IAS officers should possess. Patriotism An IAS officer must have a feeling of patriotism in the heart. One’s duties as an IAS officer include formulating and carrying out policies. With such

[ad_1] Scientists are warning of a new tick-borne disease called Wetland virus (WELV) that was recently discovered in China. A member of the orthonairovirus genus of viruses, WELV previously infected a man in Inner Mongolia, China , in 2019, but it was not identified until this new study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. The 61-year-old man, who was bitten by a tick at a wetland park, sought medical attention for "persistent fever and multiple organ dysfunction," according to the study. FIRST CASE OF HUMAN BIRD FLU DIAGNOSED WITHOUT EXPOSURE TO INFECTED ANIMALS, CDC SAYS A team of researchers from the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology isolated the virus from that patient and later identified it as WELV. Scientists are warning of a new tick-borne disease, which they call the Wetland virus, that was recently discovered in China. (iStock) Using laboratory testing, the team went on to detect the virus in 17 other pat

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment Each spring, Iliana Regan dreams of morels. When she reaches to grasp them, however, they vanish, and her hands clap together, empty. That Regan’s yearning for wild mushrooms penetrates her sleep should be no surprise. Foragers I’ve met over the years speak in rapturous terms of encounters with a growth of black trumpets or the perfect porcini, characterizing these finds as the purest rush. When Regan writes of her waking discoveries, her excitement is tangible: “The light caught the rippled edges of the morels. I adjusted my eyes like you do when looking at an autostereogram. First there’s nothing; then there’s everything.” Regan’s new book, “ Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir ,” is held together by mycelial architecture. Mushrooms connect her to her forebears. Great-grandmother Busia from a village in northern Poland used boletus to give czarnina, duck blood soup, the flavor of the forest. Regan spent countless childhood hours searching for wild

[ad_1] Millions in U.S. with health care debt New research says 100 million in U.S. saddled with debt from health care 05:24 A growing number of Americans are delaying important medical care because of the high cost of treatment, a new survey shows. In 2022, 38% of Americans said they or a family member skipped or delayed medical care, amid the highest rate of inflation in more than 40 years, according to an annual health care poll from Gallup . The jump reflects an increase of 12 percentage points compared to 2021 and marks the highest year-to-year increase in Americans delaying health care, including evaluations, treatment