‘Is a rat’s spinal cord conscious?’ - theguardian.com/environment/20…

Does your patient want to reduce their carbon footprint with just a puff of effort? They can simply change from Ventolin to Symbicort - doi: 10.1183/13993003.01705-2023

Reusable water bottles can contain 40,000 times more germs than the average toilet seat
ndtv.com/feature/reusab…

Asthma drugs are now focussed on preventing the epithelium damage caused by bronchospasm - Bagley et al 2024 Bronchoconstriction damages airway epithelia by crowding-induced excess cell extrusion. Science. 384:66-73. doi: 10.1126/science.adk2758

The cloud has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry (Guardian Weekly, 16.2.24)

TENS on acupoints can improve SpO2 in patients with COVID-19 - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hs…

The volume of raw sewage disgorging into our rivers is equivalent to a single pipe spewing out the stuff continuously since the year 1614 (today's Guardian).

To be acutely ill is more legitimate than to be chronically ill ('The double bind of social legitimacy: on disability, the sick role, and invisible work' - doi.org/10.1111/1467-9…

Prof Michael Biggs says the unwanted effect of osteoporosis is “very disturbing”. 33 year olds with bone disease is surely an example of #firstDoNoHarm and why Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender is holding this conference?

Mechanism of taste and smell glitches with Covid, and where they might lead – journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

Which Covid patients are most likely to have happy hypoxia?
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

‘Respiratory diseases have strong environmental determinants and much of the disease burden is amenable to prevention.. the pandemic highlights how much can be achieved if public health measures can be sustained... It is now up to us to harness this wind.‘ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

If your patients enjoy dancing, they can enhance their cognition (doi:10.26355/eurrev_202301_30889) and improve their balance (prd-journal.com/article/S1353-…) at the same time.

Air pollution increases the death rate from COVID-19 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Electric vehicles may save our lungs (a bit) but not those of Indonesians who live near the mine that produces nickel for their batteries. Pollution from the mines is damaging children’s lungs and destroying the livelihood of the fishermen because of contamination of the sea.

Transmission of the Covid-19 virus is greater during endurance exercise than resistance exercise - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

When your patients forget their calf-pumps and go dizzy on standing up, remind them that dinosaurs perfused their brains with extra mini-hearts in their neck (otherwise they would need a systolic pressure of up to 1,000 mmHg). doi: 10.4187/002013209793800286

Cutting down trees in the Amazon increases GDP.
Planting them doesn’t.

If you’re overwhelmed by all the Covid research, there’s now a systematic review of systematic reviews - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Bacteria (mostly nice ones) make up 13% of Earth’s biomass.
Humans make up 0.01% of Earth’s biomass.