Morbid Monday
Suicides are more likely on Monday than any other day of the week, at least in England and Wales. Between 1993 and 2002, 12 people killed themselves on a typical Monday, compared with a daily average of 10. The UK’s National Statistics office, which did the analysis, blames it on Monday being a “new beginning”. But the biggest number of suicides on a single day – 23 – occurred on Saturday 1 January 2000.
Blood test for BSE
Misshapen prion proteins, which cause degenerative brain diseases such as BSE in cows and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, can now be detected…
