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Digital Mindfulness at Work Is Moving From Wellness Advice to Management Practice

New research on mindful technology use reframes burnout as a work-design problem involving notifications, norms and control, not just an employee resilience problem.

Jul 24, 2026/2 min read

An office worker pausing beside a laptop and silenced smartphone

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Two Camps, One Diet: Why the Argument Never Converged

Doctors and followers spent a year disagreeing about nizam al-tayyibat without ever contradicting each other, because they were not answering the same question.

Jul 24, 2026/4 min read

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France’s June Heatwave Toll: 5,764 Excess Deaths in 2026

A delayed mortality count reveals the June heatwave’s true scale, showing why the deadliest climate disaster can pass quietly behind ordinary causes of death.

Jul 23, 2026/4 min read

People seeking shade and drinking water during an extreme heatwave in a French city

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PRIMA’s Retinal Implant Wins Approval to Restore Vision

A tiny implant paired with camera glasses can return useful central vision to some people with advanced macular degeneration, and Europe has cleared its sale.

Jul 23, 2026/4 min read

An ophthalmologist examining a patient’s retina with clinical imaging equipment

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Five-Year Survival After a Diabetic Foot Ulcer Is Worse Than for Several Common Cancers

Between 19 and 34 per cent of people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer. Once one has happened, five-year mortality runs at 50 to 70 per cent. Almost nobody is told this, and the prevention costs the price of looking.

Jul 22, 2026/4 min read

Wide cushioned walking shoes, an inspection mirror and a monofilament

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Global Road Deaths Fell 21%, but the Map Is Unequal

WHO’s new figures show real progress despite a billion more vehicles, while poorer countries and vulnerable road users remain on the wrong side of the decline.

Jul 22, 2026/4 min read

Pedestrians crossing a busy city road at a marked intersection

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The Leading Cause of Blindness in Working-Age Adults Has No Symptoms Until It Is Nearly Too Late

Diabetic retinopathy does not hurt, does not blur vision early, and gives no warning a person can feel. By the time sight changes, the damage that caused it has usually been accumulating for years.

Jul 19, 2026/4 min read

A fundus photograph of the retina at the back of the eye

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Never Quit Gluten Before You Get Tested. Here Is Why.

Coeliac blood tests look for antibodies your body only makes while you are eating gluten. Cut it out first and the result can come back clear while the disease carries on.

Jul 16, 2026/3 min read

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One in Five Adults in the UAE Has Diabetes. In Saudi Arabia It Is Closer to One in Four

IDF figures put UAE adult prevalence at 20.7 per cent and Saudi Arabia at 23.1 per cent, against a global figure around a tenth. The explanation is not one thing, and one of the contributing factors is barely three generations old.

Jul 16, 2026/4 min read

A community blood glucose screening station

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Your HbA1c Is an Average of Your Red Blood Cells, Which Is Why It Sometimes Lies

The test everyone treats as the verdict measures sugar stuck to haemoglobin over the life of a red cell. Anything that changes how long those cells live changes the result, and several of those conditions are common across this region.

Jul 13, 2026/4 min read

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Prediabetes Is Not a Disease. It Is a Warning With Unusually Good Evidence Behind It

The label is contested, the thresholds differ between guidelines, and most people who have it never progress. It is also the one point in this whole condition where a trial showed you can change the outcome by more than half.

Jul 10, 2026/4 min read

A blood sample being prepared for laboratory testing