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June 15, 2023 - Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, is an expert on the short- and long-term health impacts linked with exposure to air pollution, and especially to wildfire smoke.

The government casts this week's strike by junior doctors in England as a cause of patient suffering, when it is better understood as a symptom of a health service in crisis.It is true that cancelled operations and delayed treatments diminish the service.It is also the case that failure to pay medical professionals properly is a long-term cause of systemic decline.

Almost 1.5 million homeowners with variable rate mortgages face higher borrowing costs with the Bank of England expected to push up interest rates on Thursday to 4.5%.A poll of City analysts found there was a 96% chance the central bank would increase its base rate by 0.25 percentage points when policymakers meet to tackle Britain's stubbornly high inflation rate.

Labour would impose time limits on the hiring of overseas workers in shortage occupations to restrict immigration, the shadow home secretary has said.Yvette Cooper told the Sunday Telegraph the party believes the measure would give an incentive to companies to train more British staff.The party would use a strengthened Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) which provides independent advice to the Government to guide on appropriate timescales for importing labour, she suggested.

RSV is a seasonal virus that lands tens of thousands of young children in the hospital every year.On Thursday, advisors to the FDA voted in favor of approving a long-acting antibody that protects infants from RSV. Christoph Soeder/Picture Alliance via Getty Images A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration have recommended that the agency approve a new antibody drug to protect infants from serious lung illnesses caused by respiratory syncytial virus, also known as RSV.

According to the old rule of thumb, you're supposed to drink eight glasses of water per day (and some experts recommend even more).That can seem like a daunting task on some days, but here's the catch: You don't have to drink all that water.Roughly 20% of our daily H2O intake comes from solid foods, especially fruits and vegetables.

An outbreak of acute severe, unexplained hepatitis in previously healthy children in 2022 may be linked to adeno-associated virus 2, or AAV2, according to three independent studies published Thursday in the journal Nature.Between April and July 2022, more than 1,000 children worldwide at least 350 of them in the United States were diagnosed with hepatitis, a disease involving liver inflammation, with no known cause.

For the third day in a row, Toronto is under a special weather statement for high levels of pollution in the air and climate and environment experts say while the city's multi-day air event is unprecedented, residents should anticipate that smoky conditions could become a more frequent occurrence.Environment Canada had previously predicted Thursday's air would be the worst experienced in the city this week, brought on by wildfires in Quebec an other parts of Ontario.

The province's screen sector is reporting its strongest ever year last year with Ontario hitting record-high levels of film and television productions.Ontario Creates, an agency of the provincial government, said it supported a total of 419 productions in 2022, contributing roughly $3.15 billion to the economy.

For the past 10 years, PAD Studio has been conducting a study on the true environmental impact of low-energy homes.The studio has been studying the New Forest House for the past decade.The home is located within an 18.5-acre plot, which is situated adjacent to ancient woodland and heath, in the New Forest National Park.

An undulating green roof and timber cladding help this Suffolk house by MAP Architecture and Jon Broome Architects, which was designed to Passivhaus standards, blend into the surrounding wetland.Named Creek Cabin, the home was built into a bank in the Suffolk Broads Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and was designed to pay respect to the nature on the site.

The environment ministers of Poland and Germany met on the border of the two countries on Wednesday to discuss protection of a river against a repeat of deadly pollution that killed hundreds of tons of fish last year.Polish Environment Minister Anna Moskwa said that she couldn't rule out the occurrence of another disaster despite tight monitoring along the Oder River and the blocking of the illegal discharge of chemicals and waste in order to prevent the growth of deadly golden algae.

"This is not about our grandchildren anymore," wrote activist group Climate Defiance.The sun is shrouded as it sets behind the Statue of Liberty in a hazy sky caused by smoke drifting into the Northeast of the U.S. from wildfires in Canada on May 22, 2023, in New York City.Gary Hershorn / Getty Images In the latest sign that the climate crisis is here and already endangering people across the world, much of the eastern half of the U.S. woke up on Wednesday morning to find their homes blanketed in smoke as wildfires in Canada create apocalyptic scenes in major cities like New York.

President Joe Biden, right, and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meet on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Saturday, May 20, 2023.Susan Walsh, AP President Joe Biden was seeking to rally regional cooperation against China on the margins of the Group of Seven summit Saturday, while confronting a stalemate in Washington over how to ensure the US avoids default.

Hay fever sufferers could be facing weeks of itchy eyes and sneezing, the Met office has warned.High levels of pollen are expected across the Midlands and south of England, as well as in all of Wales and Northern Ireland until Friday, the weather service said.The forecaster said the north east of England and Scotland will see low levels of pollen.

A shopping mall in Texas, a private school in Tennessee, a bank in Kentucky and a dance studio in California: these are the sites of some of the public mass shootings in the U.S. in 2023 alone, representing just a slice of the presumed safe spaces rocked by these tragedies.As mass shootings in the country have risen, evidence is mounting that they are having a far-reaching mental health impact.

Researchers have identified a man with a rare genetic mutation that protected him from developing dementia at an early age.The finding, published on 15 May in Nature Medicine, could help researchers to better understand the causes of Alzheimer's disease and potentially lead to new treatments.For nearly 40 years, neurologist Francisco Lopera at the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, has been following an extended family whose members develop Alzheimer's in their forties or earlier.

The Asus Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED is aimed at on-the-go creatives, featuring a 2.8K resolution 14.5" OLED touchscreen and a 12.7" Screenpad Plus, effectively giving users a second half-monitor.The ScreenPad Plus comes with several extra features, including custom control-surface setups for several Adobe Products.

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Public health officials are urging beachgoers to avoid swimming, surfing and playing in the water at several Los Angeles County beaches during the Memorial Day weekend due to high levels of bacteria.Popular beaches were reported to have ocean bacteria levels that exceed California standards and could cause illness to swimmers, especially children and older adults, according to the L.A. County Department of Public Health.

Relief organisations say Iraq, Syria and Yemen in need of much greater financial help to deal with deadly effects of conflict and climate change.Conflict-plagued nations in the Middle East are among the most vulnerable to climate change but are almost entirely excluded from meaningful financing to mitigate its effects, aid groups warn.

French strikes don't just affect France particularly when it comes to air travel.As a cursory glance at the map will show you, France is geographically pretty central to Europe, so many flights within the continent pass over French airspace in fact roughly half of the flights in French airspace are only passing through, known as overflights'.

French strikes don't just affect France particularly when it comes to air travel.As a cursory glance at the map will show you, France is geographically pretty central to Europe, so many flights within the continent pass over French airspace in fact roughly half of the flights in French airspace are only passing through, known as overflights'.

Family members have paid tribute to a 15-year-old girl with a beautiful smile that would light up a room after she died in a car crash in Cardiff.Keely Morgan was hit by a vehicle in Heol Trelai, Caerau, in the west of the city just after 9.30pm on Monday and she was later declared dead at the scene.

Is listening to an audiobook the same as reading it?Am I cheating if I go to my book club having listened to the novel instead of reading it?Daniel Willingham, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia and author of The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads, says that these are the questions he has to answer most; after conducting many experiments in his lab and writing a book, he is considered an expert on the subject.