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New Jersey regulators fined a data center operator $1.1 million after drone photographs revealed 62 backup gas generators installed without required air-quality permits. The case highlights rising scrutiny of the power infrastructure behind data centers, whose backup generation can emit significant pollution. The penalty underscores that operators must obtain environmental permits even for equipment meant only for emergencies.
Families in the UK are facing waits of several years for an autism diagnosis, with one relative saying a child's mental health deteriorated during the delay. The backlog leaves children without support at a critical stage of development. The case highlights growing pressure on underfunded assessment services.
BBC Health reports that blood cancer patients are being offered free counselling. The support is intended to help patients cope with the emotional toll of diagnosis and treatment. It matters because cancer care often involves significant mental health needs alongside physical treatment.
A Guardian analysis examines why organisations so often protect abusive managers rather than the employees they harm, despite the damage toxic leadership does to staff wellbeing and retention. It explores the incentives, hierarchies and HR failures that let bullying behaviour go unchecked, and what it would take to hold managers accountable.
A program that gave low-income couples cash assistance along with a spending plan produced both positive and negative outcomes, according to research reported by NPR Health. The findings suggest that direct cash aid can help struggling families, but attaching budgeting requirements may lead to unintended consequences.
NPR Health reports that National Institutes of Health funding disruptions under the Trump administration have changed over time. The numbers show how grants, research projects, and institutions have been affected, highlighting broader consequences for biomedical research and public health. The shifting pattern matters because NIH funding supports much of U.S. medical science.
BBC Health examines the evidence behind claims that oily fish benefits brain health. It explains what research says about omega-3s, cognition, and memory. The piece helps readers separate useful dietary advice from overblown health promises.
NHS staff are under investigation for allegedly accessing the medical records of a teenager who has died, in what appears to be an unauthorized breach of patient confidentiality. The case raises questions about how health service systems control and audit access to sensitive records, particularly those of deceased patients.
In a Guardian opinion column, George Monbiot argues that people with ME/CFS have been systematically abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted by doctors, researchers and institutions. He says the illness, which affects hundreds of thousands of people, has long been treated as psychological rather than physical, leaving patients without adequate care or research funding.