British law has no age for cosmetics beyond a check for under-threes. We read 1,218 ingredient lists: among the brands tweens buy, one product in seven has a retinoid or an acid and none states an age. Europe capped retinol in 2024; Britain has not. The alerts catch toy make-up, not the trend.
A year after every practice in England was told to keep its online form open all day, requests have nearly trebled, patients say contact is easier, and GPs are in open dispute with the government. We went through the data to answer the question that matters: after you press submit, do you get seen?
Twenty-one people fell ill in a week and two died after a night out in March. A new genetic analysis by UKHSA and Oxford finds the strain had borrowed genes from harmless throat bacteria, and that the same changes may explain why it burned out.