Life
Sally Magnusson: Will I be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s like my mother?
Sally Magnusson Treatments are coming, but they’re not here yet. The paradox is that only if people like me join research programmes like Craig’s can they come in time to save those of us in our 60s now.I asked...
Life
Allergies: ‘My school’s EpiPen saved my life when I collapsed after drinking ginger beer’
BBCUnder current law, Irish pharmacies and other organisation or business can hold and administer the drug if they have the right training and manage the medicine appropriately. So far, only a small number of organisations have signed up, including...
Life
Consumer Reports calls for federal ban on baby walkers. Here are the risks.
Consumer Reports is calling for a federal ban of infant walkers, saying the products injure thousands of babies every year despite federal safety standards that have slowed — but not stopped — heartbreaking incidents for parents.The consumer advocacy group's...
Science
NASA Awards Aerospace Research, Technology, and Simulations Contract – NASA
NASA has selected Metis Technology Solutions Inc. of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide engineering services as well as develop and maintain software and hardware used to conduct simulations for aerospace research and development across the agency.
The Aerospace Research, Technology,...
Environment
Evacuating in disasters like Hurricane Milton isn’t simple – there are reasons people stay in harm’s way, and it’s not just stubbornness
As Hurricane Milton roared ashore near Sarasota, Florida, tens of thousands of people were in evacuation shelters. Hundreds of thousands more had fled coastal regions ahead of the storm, crowding highways headed north and south...
Space
Hera takes flight: Didymos, here we come
Space Safety
10/10/2024
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12 likesThe day began with an 85% chance that bad weather would cause a launch delay: it ended with ESA’s Hera mission successfully in space and en route to the Didymos binary asteroid system.At 16:52...
Life
NHS trust put in place do-not-resuscitate rule, Covid inquiry told
Getty ImagesProf Wyllie told the inquiry he had not seen a document from the NHS trust concerned but had heard about the policy from a fellow member of the Resuscitation Council.The charity, which develops guidelines and training for medical...
Life
Time to fix NHS as long waits continue, experts say
Getty ImagesThe government has been warned it must come up with a plan to fix the NHS, amid mounting concern about the lack of progress in cutting long waits.Latest figures for England show the backlog in hospital care has...
Life
Gosport War Memorial Hospital deaths: Police identify 24 suspects
Family HandoutA 2018 report into the deaths found there was a "disregard for human life" of a large number of patients from 1989 to 2000.There was an "institutionalised regime" of prescribing and administering "dangerous" amounts of a medication not...
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Israeli shelling of Gaza school kills at least 22
An Israeli attack on a school used to shelter displaced Palestinians has killed at least 22 people, including 15...