An image of Titan taken by the Cassini spacecraft during a flyby NASA/JPL/SSI/Val Klavans Titan’s plains may be covered in up to a metre of fluffy, organic “snow”. About 65 per cent of the surface of Saturn’s huge moon is made up of strangely uniform and flat plains, and they seem to be coated in…
A bill banning anyone born after 2008 from buying tobacco in the UK has completed its progress through parliament in a move that ministers hope will create a “smoke-free generation”. Under the tobacco and vapes bill anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 will never be able to be legally sold tobacco across the…
The Navy is appealing to doctors who are frustrated with the administrative side of practicing medicine, running a month-long marketing campaign to recruit top talent. The campaign ads target young doctors ages 26 to 32, as well as nurses and dentists, across four major cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Diego. The ads…
During the recent American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) annual meeting, MedPage Today brought together three expert leaders for a virtual roundtable discussion on atopic dermatitis: Moderator Peter A. Lio, MD, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, is joined by Sarina B. Elmariah, MD, PhD, of the UCSF Center for Itch and Neurosensory…
A vessel heading towards the Strait of Hormuz Shady Alassar/Anadolu via Getty Images “Mission Accomplished.” This phrase has haunted US foreign policy ever since George W. Bush stood on the deck of USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003 and declared victory in a war that would drag on for another eight years. It has become shorthand…
Investigational azetukalner met its primary endpoint of reducing focal onset seizure frequency across two doses, initial findings from the phase III X-TOLE2 trial showed. Over 12 weeks, adjunctive treatment with 25 mg azetukalner led to a 53.2% median decline from baseline in monthly focal onset seizure frequency, compared with a 10.4% drop for placebo (P<0.001),…
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Members of the armed services will no longer be required to have an annual flu vaccination shot under a new policy announced Tuesday by Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary. In a video statement posted to social media, Hegseth described the mandate as “overly broad” and “not rational” and the decision to drop the vaccine…
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The scale of what we have learned about what’s happening to the environment and our planet can be overwhelming, making it hard to feel like you alone can make a difference. But you can, and being a thoughtful cook is one of the easiest, most practical ways to get started. With Earth Day around the…
