Beverley Thomson News Today

We talk with author Beverley Thomson about her latest book, entitled Antidepressed: A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence.

North health professionals are calling for Scotland to take a therapy-first approach to depression, rather than relying on medication.

Roadmap for easing lockdown. Picture: Boris Johnson In England, the next set of restrictions is due to ease on Monday, April 12. Non-essential retail and outdoor hospitality reopen for the first time in months - and the stay local message will end, meaning some domestic holidays will be possible. Pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve food and alcohol outdoors. Unlike restrictions in December last year, there will be no need for customers to order a substantial meal with alcoholic...

Plants like to suck up nitrogen, which is why we use it as a fertiliser. But animal urine often contains more than they can absorb, so the soil bugs take over, converting the nutrient to nitrates (which can leach into water) and nitrous oxide. The team, led by Beverley Thomson​ of On-Farm Research, know that some farmers have control over sheep’s grazing patterns, by timing when they move flocks into a paddock with fresh pasture. To recreate this, scientists fed 12 lambs either in the mo...