Six ways to make the internet safer for women: Antonio Guillem / Shutterstock Women are less likely to protect themselves online because current safety advice does not take full account of their needs – despite women being more at risk from cyber abuse and threats than men. This abuse of women is a growing problem, …
Ai Expo Africa 2023 – Drone and Ai Technology creating safer and sustainable Technology: The integration of Drone and AI technologies has emerged as a transformative force, reshaping industries and fostering a future marked by enhanced safety measures and sustainable practices. This synergistic alliance offers a myriad of applications across diverse sectors, contributing to a …
Scotland’s legal go-ahead for safer drug consumption rooms is a gamechanger: On the basis of the information I have been provided, I would be prepared to publish a prosecution policy that it would not be in the public interest to prosecute drug users for simple possession offences committed within a pilot safer drugs consumption facility. …
Concussion: what it is and how sports science is making rugby safer: Two decades ago there were only two criteria used to diagnose concussion. Jon Patricios, a sport and exercise medicine physician and co-lead author of the latest international consensus statement on concussion in sport, discusses the science of head injuries and some of the …
If you’re sending intimate photos, taking a selfie is legally safer – here’s how to protect yourself: G-Stock Studio/Shutterstock If you’ve considered sending a sexy photo, you’re not alone: research shows that up to 15% of adolescents and 48% of adults have sent sexually explicit texts or images. There’s no shame in sending intimate photos …
Facial recognition technology could soon be everywhere – here’s how to make it safer: shutterstock The recent coronation of King Charles III was a high-profile example of when facial recognition technology has been used to monitor a crowd, but there are plenty of others. The technology is used by law enforcement all over the UK …
Decade of progress on making England’s homes safer threatened by austerity and the pandemic: Investing in housing should be just as important in public health messaging as exercise and having your five a day. I Wei Huang | Shutterstock In her ruling on the death of two-year old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale in 2020, senior …
LGBTIQ learners at risk in South Africa as conservative Christian groups fight plans for safer schools: Viacheslav Chernobrovin/Getty Images, CC BY-SA Advocacy groups in South Africa are intensifying their efforts to prevent the country’s education department from creating safer environments for children of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations. Some of the advocacy groups have …
Polio: we’re developing a safer vaccine that use no genetic material from the virus: Recent reports of poliovirus detected in samples from a sewage treatment works in London have rightly generated significant concern among public health agencies and medical staff. The poliovirus detected is what is called vaccine-derived poliovirus – this is not “wild poliovirus”. …
Panic, horror and chaos: what went wrong at the Champions League final – and what needs to be done to make football safer: Daniel Silverstone, a professor of criminology and an expert in policing studies, attended the Champion’s League final in Paris and witnessed chaotic scenes. Here, he and Jan Ludvigsen examine what the latest …
Regulating content won’t make the internet safer – we have to change the business models: Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock An upheaval of the law governing what can be published online is taking place in the shape of the online safety bill. The bill, which is currently making its way through parliament, has the hyperbolic ambition “to …
The Decent Home Standard promises to force landlords to make homes safer – but it will only work with enforcement: Fabio Balbi/Shutterstock More than one in five private renters in the UK live in a house that does not meet the government’s standards for decent homes. This means that around a million private renters in …
COVID passes: they can’t prevent every infection but do make events safer: With more than 60 countries now reporting cases, omicron has policymakers scrambling. Compared to delta, this new variant is likely to be more infectious and less responsive to one or two doses of a COVID vaccine. It remains unclear how severely ill it …
How air filters can make COVID wards safer for patients and staff: Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock Hospitals are there to help sick people get better, but they can also be an infection risk. During the pandemic, many healthcare workers have caught COVID from patients they’ve been treating. Non-COVID patients have also picked up the virus while in …
Many vaccine passports have security flaws – here’s how to make them safer: Mat Napo / Unsplash, CC BY-SA COVID vaccination passports have proved extremely divisive during the coronavirus pandemic, due to issues relating to civil liberties or their potential to discriminate against the more vaccine-hesitant groups within society. But as many governments around the …
Rodrigo Duterte: why the ICC’s investigation will not guarantee a fairer or safer Philippines: Shortly before she finished her term of office on June 15, the ICC’s outgoing chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda offered hope to victims, human rights groups and opposition of the regime of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, when she called for a …
Grenfell: four years after the disaster, are our buildings safer?: In the four years since the Grenfell Tower fire, which led to the unconscionable deaths of 72 people, one key question remains unanswered. Are our buildings are any safer? The short answer is: not yet. The facts and figures uncovered in the ongoing Grenfell Tower …
Informal food markets: what it takes to make them safer: Vendors sell fruits and vegetables at an informal food market. Billy Miaron/Shutterstock Around the world, food systems and supply chains come in different shapes and sizes. And so too do food safety problems and their solutions. In high-income countries, food supply chains are long and …