Health
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URGENT: UK about to cave to Trump & big pharma’s demands
It’s been reported this morning that the UK government is preparing to dramatically increase the price the NHS pays for medicines. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 3 October 2025
Friday, 3 October 2025 — GM Watch RIP Dame Jane Goodall We were sad to hear of the death, at the age of 91, of the primatologist Dame Jane Goodall. She was a pioneer researcher into animal sentience, especially as it related to her beloved chimpanzees, which she observed in their natural habitat. She outraged Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 15 September 2025
Monday, 15 September 2025 — GM Watch Game-changing gene-edited products coming soon to UK supermarkets due to Brexit? Er… maybe not According to a GMO-boosterish article in the Telegraph, “Britain’s first genetically-edited (GE) foods will be on supermarket shelves in the new year as a result of Brexit freedoms. Crops which have been genetically edited Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 11 September 2025
Thursday, 11 September 2025 — GM Watch Are GMOs safe? A molecular geneticist speaks out Are genetically engineered foods safe? In an interview with Stacy Malkan of US Right to Know, the leading molecular genetics expert Prof Michael Antoniou discusses the scientific evidence behind health concerns tied to GM corn and pesticides, how GMOs are Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 28 August 2025
Thursday, 28 August 2025 — GM Watch New Zealand: GM not needed to reduce methane emissions from cows Why risk contaminating New Zealand with GMOs when nature already has the answers? In a video clip, dairy farmer Paul Bosher explains why Crown Research Institute (publicly funded) scientists are pushing GMOs, even though there are other Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 August 2025
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 — GM Watch Regulators use double standards when evaluating scientific evidence indicating harm UK, US and European regulatory institutions have for many years been repeatedly subjecting evidence of possible harm from constituents of our food supply to severe critical scrutiny, while accepting seemingly reassuring studies and data uncritically, a new peer-reviewed Continue reading
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Killing not Care
Module 6 of the Inquiry has just completed taking evidence and much of it has been very harrowing. BiologyPhenom, whose daily substack articles covered the Scottish Inquiry’s care module last year, has also been reporting daily from the latest UK sessions. Continue reading
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Re: Palantir in the NHS
Monday, 11 August 2025 — Just Treatment My name is Rhiannon and I’m an NHS doctor. Today I’m reaching out to raise the alarm about what is happening to patient health data, and what you can do about it. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 7 August 2025
Thursday, 7 August 2025 — GM Watch GM microorganisms pose huge challenges for risk assessment and governance A recent review by researchers from Environment Agency-Austria, Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation identifies critical biosafety and wider governance risks of environmental applications of genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs), including those developed Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 5 August 2025
Tuesday, 5 August 2025 — GM Watch France’s national medical association takes stand against pesticides amidst outcry over new law A petition signed by over two million people has reignited the debate in France over the so-called “Duplomb law”, which was passed by the lower house of the French parliament on 8 July. The record-breaking Continue reading
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Palantir in the NHS: tell Streeting it’s time for a rethink
It’s approaching 2 years now since US spy tech corporation Palantir signed a contract with the UK’s previous Conservative government, to run the NHS Federated Data Platform. In that time, the evidence of Palantir’s unsuitability has only increased. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 28 July 2025
Monday, 28 July 2025 — GM Watch 2024, another year contaminated by illegal GMOs In 2024, the EU once again recorded alerts about GMO contamination. Of the 24 alerts, the vast majority concerned unauthorised GM rice, but also papaya, soy, flax and maize. Two cases of contamination by GM microorganisms were also reported, one of Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest for 26 July 2025
Picture a world where there is plenty of food, no hunger, fields grow without chemical pesticides, children are saved from malnutrition, and people live healthily. Three decades later, the promises of GMOs lie across the fields like superweeds – costly, useless, and crowding out real alternatives. In 1995, with the approval of Bt maize and… Continue reading
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HART’s Pick of the Week 20th July
Monday, 21 July 2025 — HART SSRIs; WHO; Pushback on Assisted dying and late-stage abortion; No2digitalID Antidepressant withdrawal – why do researchers keep downplaying it? Maryanne Demasi, 10th July 2025 Another insightful analysis of a JAMA systematic review, in which Maryanne picks numerous holes in their methodology, undermining their conclusion that withdrawal symptoms are ‘mild’ Continue reading
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10 Year Plan for England’s NHS – Week One
The new “Ten Year Plan” shifts decision-making power from you and your family doctor to hospitals and technology companies. There are wordings from the political leadership about patients owning data, but the depths of the policy machine seems to suggest there be a day soon when you ask the NHS to opt your data out… Continue reading
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Update on Stop misleading patients – Physician Associates cannot replace doctors
The third and final day in court is on Monday 9th. The first two days went well for us. It was very clear early in the case that there was a clear safety issue that needed to be addressed. Continue reading
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Pesticides in period products
Period products can contain pesticides and other harmful substances, such as heavy metals and PFAS ‘forever chemicals’. Half of the world’s population have periods, with women, girls and people who menstruate each using an average of 11,000 disposable menstrual products during their lifetime. Despite the prolific use of these products, the potential health impacts of… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 22 May 2025
GMWatch has received the good news that the environmental campaigner Aruna Rodrigues, who was forcibly evicted from her home by weapons-touting Indian army personnel just before Christmas in 2022, has won her case against the Indian government in court. The High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Indore ruled that the government’s actions in evicting Aruna… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 21 May 2025
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 — GM Watch Just 100 corporations behind a fifth of global extractive conflicts, study reveals – and Bayer-Monsanto is one of them Just one hundred corporations are behind a fifth of the documented extractive conflicts worldwide, exposing how companies from the Global North seize resources and profits, while social and ecological Continue reading
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NHS: Ahead of the 10 year plan
The NHS 10 year plan will be dragged by political priorities to focus on the first five years – what is easiest to be done in this Parliament for headlines. Even assuming the best of intentions, the imposition of Palantir, the abolition of NHS England, the single patient record, and the transformation to digital solely… Continue reading