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Covid vaccine: PM to have AstraZeneca jab as he urges public to do the same

Health

PA MediaThe prime minister is to receive his first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine after reassuring the public it was "safe".Boris Johnson, 56, has urged people to get inoculated and said England's roadmap out of lockdown was "on track".He said there was "no change" to the plan despite a drop in vaccine supply.Several European countries are to resume using the AstraZeneca jab after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) confirmed it was "safe and effective".The regulator reviewed the vaccine amid fears about blood clots, but said it was "not associated" with a higher risk and the benefits outweighed any risks.When will it be my turn to be vaccinated?Why is the EU warning the UK over vaccines?How will we know Covid vaccines are safe?Mr Johnson told a Downing Street conference o...

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Teenage writer and ‘Genera+ion’ cast: Not all teen dramas are the same

Entertainment

LOS ANGELES, March 11 (UPI) -- The new HBO Max drama Genera+tion, which premieres Thursday, follows a tradition of HBO teen dramas like Euphoria and We Are What We Are. All three portray diverse groups of high school teenagers, but Genera+ion cast members, and its 19-year-old co-creator, Zelda Barnz, told Television Critics Association members it's a mistake to lump the three shows together. Justice Smith said the teenage protagonists are the only similarities the shows have in common. Smith, 25, plays Chester, an openly gay teenager who gets in trouble at school for dressing too provocatively. Advertisement "These are all very different stories, but we're in a new zeitgeist now where we're accurately depicting what adolescent life is like," Smith said on a TCA Zoom panel. "I'm also grate...

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Cancer patients ‘lack same protection’ after first jab

Health

Getty ImagesCancer patients are much less protected against Covid-19 than other people after one dose of the Pfizer vaccine, the first real-world study in this area suggests.With a 12-week wait for the second dose this could leave them vulnerable, says the King's College London and Francis Crick Institute research team.An early second dose appeared to boost cancer patients' protection.Cancer charities are calling for the vaccine strategy to be reviewed.But Cancer Research UK said the small study had not yet been reviewed by other scientists and people undergoing cancer treatment should continue to follow the advice of their doctors. The government said it was focused on "saving lives" and the antibody response "was only part of the protection provided by the vaccine".About 1.2 million peop...

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Lessons from the Gita for market practitioners: Different paths to the same goal

Finance

As you grow older, your reading pattern changes. I find myself engaging in more of spiritual reading and, of course, many of those texts are based on concepts from the Bhagavad Gita. Reading some parts, I was struck by the relevance that some of the observations in that great text can have for financial markets. This is a bad habit I have, of taking every good thing of life and transporting those into the market context, because I try and draw a lot of parallels between how you live and lead your life and how you act and perform in the markets. In Chapter 12 of the Gita, Arjuna asks Krishna as to which form of worship will be more preferred – whether through the form of the Lord or through meditation on the formless nature of the Lord. While the Lord answers Arjuna in different ways to mak...

Jan222021 by adminNo Comments

Spitting cobras have evolved the same venom three different times

Science

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Evolution has yielded tremendous biodiversity, proof that there's no one right answer. But occasionally, life's challenges inspire the evolution of the same solution -- over and over and over again. According to a new survey of spitting cobras, published Thursday in the journal Science, the deadly snakes have evolved the same instantly painful venom on three different occasions. Advertisement This example of convergent evolution, scientists argue, offers proof that spitting cobras evolved their venom for defensive purposes, undermining theories that snakes exclusively develop venom for predation. All spitting cobras use a similar delivery mechanism to spray venom at distances of up to eight feet. The snakes aim their instantly-painful venom at the eyes of potentially thre...