Sam Rowlands

Done a few months back. All very straightforward.

💊 Can you use emergency contraception more than once in a month?

The new WHO SPR for Contraceptive Use — launched last week at #ICFP2025 — confirms there’s no safety concern with repeated use in the same cycle if needed.

📘 Read more: bit.ly/4oM6wZV

#SRHR #Contraception #HealthForAll

Pollution, poverty and power: the real cost of environmental inequality in the UK Cleaner air is progress, but injustice remains. Environmental racism still decides who breathes dirty air, who gets sick and who gets heard

theconversation.com/pollution-po...
#environmentaljustice

Delighted to have Chris Packham opening the National Emergency Briefing. I'll be chairing as 8 experts give briefings on the lastest science and evidence.

See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...

Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator

Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component:
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Wind power has saved UK consumers over £100 billion since 2010 – new study Wind power offers a large financial benefit to UK consumers.

Wind power offers a large financial benefit to UK consumers.

When you switch banks you don’t have to move your standing orders/direct debits yourself. Behaviour of others can be influenced by mentioning that you have moved to a more ethical/less environmentally impactful bank and it was an easy/painless process.

In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health.

Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...

Wood burning and gas cooking hugely costly to healthcare systems, New Zealand study finds Experts suggest replacing gas hobs with electric ones, saying it is a win–win for health and the climate

Interesting read on the #Health impacts of #WoodBurning and cooking with gas.

"For London... #AirPollution from the typical wood burner creates a yearly health cost of about £800 in the surrounding community".

Historic win for nature and climate!

Today, at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world’s largest environmental network of governments, civil society, and Indigenous Peoples voted to recognise fossil fuels as a root cause of the biodiversity and climate crises for the first time in history.

Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds Analysis of 800,000 European cars found real-world pollution from plug-in hybrids nearly five times greater than lab tests

These things are a complete waste of time

A big chunk of the electricity is spent lugging around an internal combustion engine

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

👉 What are PFIs?
👉 Why did they fail the first time?
👉 And why are they quietly making a comeback?

This is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the NHS.

📖 Read the full piece here:
everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

Thousands take legal action over ‘widespread pollution’ of three UK rivers Environmental group seeks damages from Welsh Water and two chicken producers, alleging responsibility for pollution in Wye, Lugg and Usk

Thousands take legal action over ‘widespread pollution’ of Rivers Wye, Lugg and Usk - alleging that Welsh Water & two corporate chicken producers are responsible:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looking forward to giving the Closing Remarks at the @bsacp.org.uk Annual Conference 2015 (10th Anniversary) this Friday!

Why Alaska’s salmon streams are suddenly bleeding orange Warming Arctic permafrost is unlocking toxic metals, turning Alaska’s once-clear rivers into orange, acid-laced streams. The shift, eerily similar to mine pollution but entirely natural, threatens fis...

Why are #Alaska streams "suddenly bleeding orange"? Well, the burning of fossil fuels warms the planet leading to warming Arctic permafrost which is unlocking toxic metals and turning Alaska’s once-clear rivers into orange, acid-laced streams. #ClimateCrisis
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Abortion is healthcare.

Abortion should be regulated like other health services so that women and girls can access safe, timely and respectful care.

Today is International #SafeAbortion Day.

Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls.

As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.

Use of paracetamol during pregnancy unchanged in the EU | European Medicines Agency (EMA) Paracetamol medicines can be used in pregnancy, in accordance with official recommendations

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women.

Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.

Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

📢 New: Abortion care guideline, 2nd edition

A consolidated reference of all WHO recommendations & best practices on abortion—covering law & policy, clinical services & service delivery.

🔗 bit.ly/45N7ehK

#SRHR #HealthForAll

The hidden health risks of #WoodBurningStoves and eco stoves in homes - University of Surrey

#AirPollution #WoodBurning #Health
www.surrey.ac.uk/news/hidden-...

$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials

Preventing abortions by... destroying the #1 tool to prevent abortions?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine Aseem Malhotra claimed ‘eminent oncologist’ said jab was ‘significant factor in the cancer of members of royal family’

This is without any evidence or data to support it. Cancer existed before COVID vaccines. The rise in early onset cancers- going on for decades- is not linked to COVID vaccines. Follow scientists & medical researchers. Not ppl selling snake oil. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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Leadership elections results New Leader Zack Polanski Photo of Zack Polanski REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Vast areas of peatland destroyed since peat ban announced exactly 3 years ago | The Wildlife Trusts It has been three years since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for use in the amateur gardening sector, yet there is still no sign of legislation to enact the ban.

Every day the government delays banning the sale of peat compost means more carbon lost to the atmosphere from this appalling practice

www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/vast-ar...

Huge impacts of UK pig and poultry farming revealed for first time | The Wildlife Trusts New report shows sector’s pollution harms rivers and wider countryside

This report highlights once again the disastrous impact of unchecked intensive chicken farming on the Wye. With 80 chickens for every person in the catchment, the Wye is at the sharp end of this appalling story of pollution for profit. www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/huge-im...

Israel have bombed another hospital. Waited for medics to arrive - and then bombed again.

Britain keeps selling arms to this genocidal regime.

Starmer & Lammy say they're "horrified". They condemn. But they do nothing.

All the war criminals must face justice.

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