SEBI employees gathered outside the office in Mumbai, on September 5, 2024 | Photo Credit: T. Ashokamitran About 200 employees of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) gathered outside the office, within its premises, on Thursday (September 5, 2024) reportedly protesting toxic work culture, among other grievances. The employees gathered at 11 a.m. … Read more
There is shocking bullying, racism and incompetence in the organisation responsible for ensuring NHS nurses and midwives in the UK are safe to have around patients, a damning report says. The independent review warns of a dangerously toxic culture within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which oversees and regulates hundreds of thousands of nurses … Read more
The review comes after a BBC investigation into claims of a climate of fear at Birmingham hospitals. Source link
The CSE report says there were 10 days of ‘severe’ and ‘severe-plus’ air quality and one four-day-long smog episode during the winter. | Photo Credit: File Photo SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA I The winter of 2022 was Delhi’s “cleanest” in the last five years, though its air remains “toxic”. The main determinants for the improved air quality … Read more
US agencies cannot agree on how the pandemic started, with the scientific community bitterly divided. Source link
The compound has killed several people and parents have campaigned for reclassification. Source link
Families say the government has not acted quickly enough to prevent deaths from diet drug DNP. Source link
A whistleblower reveals nurses are quitting a hospital because they feel “helpless and unsupported”. Source link
Dec. 17, 2021 — People exposed to even low levels of certain toxic metals may increase their risk of atherosclerosis, the plaque buildup in the arteries that can cause strokes and heart attacks. A large study in Spain evaluated middle-aged people (97% of whom were male) working in an auto body factory to look for … Read more
Though she didn’t yet know the term “toxic,” Rashawnda James knew something was very off about her relationship with her mother when she was just 13 years old. “I realized that in the conversations at school that they were talking as though their parents were around a lot,” she says. James’s parent, a crack cocaine … Read more