Mortgage stress looms over Canada’s big banks. What they — and consumers — can do – National
Canadian consumers are facing mounting financial pressure amid higher interest rates, and it’s something Canada’s biggest lenders are bracing for. But there are steps that borrowers — and the banks themselves — can take to soften the blow. The latest bank earnings showed risks of a slowing economy are weighing on the country’s largest financial […]
Spinal cancer: Giving the gift of extra time to terminal patients
The BBC follows health experts treating patients with dangerous cancer that has spread to the spine. Source link
Covid and flu winter jabs to be brought forward in England
As in previous years, the NHS will let people know when bookings open. Adult flu and COVID-19 appointments will be available through the NHS App and website, or by calling 119 for those who can’t get online. Flu vaccines will also be available through local GP practices and pharmacies. Flu vaccinations for children which will […]
Covid and flu winter jabs to be brought forward in England
As in previous years, the NHS will let people know when bookings open. Adult flu and COVID-19 appointments will be available through the NHS App and website, or by calling 119 for those who can’t get online. Flu vaccines will also be available through local GP practices and pharmacies. Flu vaccinations for children which will […]
DART Showed How to Smash an Asteroid. So Where Did the Space Shrapnel Go?
Nearly one year ago, NASA flung the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour. It was the first test to see whether they could slightly deflect a space rock’s trajectory using a high-speed collision, a technique that could be used to protect Earth from future killer asteroids. It worked. But now […]
Turtles Carry Signs of Humanity’s Nuclear History in Their Shells
On a spring day in 1978, a fisherman caught a tiger shark in the lagoon surrounding Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific. That shark, along with the remains of a green sea turtle it had swallowed, wound up in a natural history museum. Today, scientists are realizing that this turtle […]
Hurricane Idalia Is About to Slam Florida With a Wall of Water
Early Tuesday morning, Tropical Storm Idalia strengthened into Hurricane Idalia, charting a course for Florida’s west coast and panhandle. Its maximum sustained winds have already reached nearly 100 miles per hour, and it’s expected to keep feeding on exceptionally warm ocean waters and intensifying before making landfall early Wednesday. It will pound Florida—including heavily populated […]
The Massive Campaign to Air-Drop Tiny Rabies Vaccines to Raccoons
State laws forbid transporting and relocating raccoons because of the rabies risk, but Chipman says it still happens all the time. Just this month, raccoons that were trapped and ear-tagged in Ontario, Canada, showed up in a nuisance wildlife control operator’s trap in Rhode Island. “How that raccoon got there, we don’t know,” he says. […]
Anthony Fauci on the recent spike in Covid cases
In a wide ranging interview about his life after retiring as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci tells the BBC’s Katty Kay that 96% of the US population has a degree of immunity against the most recent Covid variant but urges people to get a booster shot that will […]
NHS consultant strike: How pay compares globally
Analysis suggests senior doctor pay a little behind Germany and Ireland but higher than Spain and Italy. Source link