The European Union’s industrial strategy, centred on Single Market Resilience, Strategic Autonomy, and Competitive Sustainability, is riddled with contradictions that risk exacerbating the very crises it seeks to address. According to a recent study by the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the EU’s current industrial policy will not achieve its own objectives unless it is fundamentally rethought.

Ethnic minority healthcare workers who are also born overseas face a double disadvantage due to the combined effects of ethnicity and migrant status, according to new research published in JRSM Open.

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers examining births among people with previous cesarean sections found higher rates of “severe maternal morbidity” – or serious complications that could have long-lasting effects on health – among Black and Latinx people having a planned C-section, compared to Whites.