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Editor's note
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Being in good health is something a lot of us tend to just take for granted. We wake up every morning and expect our body to work the way it always has, until sooner or later maybe it doesn’t. That’s what happened to me. During the space of a few months, I went from peak health – training for a marathon – to being pretty much bedridden and struggling to walk.
It took me years to find out what was wrong with me and along the way, I realised that a lot of the advice and treatments I was getting from doctors wasn’t really being suggested with me in mind – it was designed for the “average” patient, based on how a group of people responded to a clinical trial. So when the podcast team came up with the idea of looking at the future personalisation of medicine, I knew I had to be involved.
In part one of our brand new series, Medicine made for you, we look at genes, clinical trials and how possible it might be for the NHS to take a more personalised view of our health. And we find out why Scotland, a country of 5.4 million people, with one of the lowest life expectancies in western Europe, is a pioneer of this kind of research.
You can also discover why eating a Mediterranean diet is good for your gut – especially as you get older – and find out if electric scooters could offer a greener way to travel around our cities.
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Holly Squire
Health, Society and Education Editor
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Top stories
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Annabel Bligh, The Conversation; Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Holly Squire, The Conversation
PODCAST: The first episode of a new series from The Anthill focuses on precision medicine.
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Half the participants were asked to eat more vegetables, legumes, fruits, nuts, olive oil, and fish – and less red meat and dairy.
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Paul O'Toole, University College Cork
Our research found that following a Mediterranean diet was linked with less frailty, inflammation, and maintaining better cognitive function.
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Graeme Sherriff, University of Salford; Luke Blazejewski, University of Salford; Nick Davies, University of Salford
A national consultation may (legally) bring e-scooters to UK cities.
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Arts + Culture
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Gavin Miller, University of Glasgow
Psychologists have stigmatised science fiction fans as losers who retreat into fantasy worlds. This is unfair.
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Kingsley Ugwuanyi, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Nigerians can take pride in the recent addition of 29 words of Nigerian origin to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Environment + Energy
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Susanne Becken, Griffith University
We analysed what the world's top 58 airlines – such as American Airlines, British Airways and Qantas – are doing about climate change. Even the best airlines are not doing anywhere near enough.
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Karen Smith, University of Toronto
New research finds that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone-depleting substances have boosted the effects of climate change in the Arctic.
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Politics + Society
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Rhona Smith, Newcastle University
For the first time, the EU has withdrawn some trade preferences for a developing country on its Everything But Arms tariffs.
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Science + Technology
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Harun Šiljak, Trinity College Dublin
Quantum communication is needed to make the internet much more secure.
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