At some point during the month of January, a work pal or loved one will attempt to talk you into some kind of cleanse or colonic, making pinkie-promises about how it'll "detox" your guts. Do not listen. It is pseudoscientific marketing nonsense.

The Telegraph reports on a new birth trend: being subjected to the disgraceful marketing strategies of sales representatives who pay British hospitals for access to new mothers, whom they hope to take advantage of for profit. Sometimes the salespeople will begin badgering new parents mere minutes after birth. So…

The UK's NHS has overhauled its policies to allow new fathers to spend the first night of their child's life with their family in the maternity ward, part of an ambitious reform program. Don Draper politely declines, smokes. [Guardian]