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Most biographers pride themselves on leaving no stone unturned in digging into the professional and personal lives of their subjects, but none can surely have gone to such extraordinary lengths as Andrew Lownie, for his book on the Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma. To date, he has spent six years and a staggering 250,000 pounds ($428,000) of his life savings in order to be allowed to see the private diaries and correspondence between Prince Philip’s uncle and aunt, Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten. And although it is already too late for his own book The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves became a bestseller upon publication in 2019 he has not given up his quest.
Paul Grundy has been appointed chief medical officer (CMO) at University Hospital Southampton. He was asked by the board to act as CMO on an interim basis after Derek Sandeman left the trust at the start of the year. But now, following a thorough external recruitment process, the UHS Trust Board have given Mr Grundy the role on a permanent basis. Chair of the board, Peter Hollins and chief executive David French said: “Paul has done an outstanding job during his time in the interim role and has demonstrated he has all the leadership skills needed for the CMO role.”
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A study presented last month at the European Conference on Space Debris says that the problem has been underestimated, and that the amount of space junk in orbit could, in a worst-case scenario, increase 50 times by 2100
It is easy to compare the space junk problem to climate change. Human activities leave too many dead satellites and fragments of machinery discarded in Earth orbit. If left unchecked, space junk could pose significant problems for future generations rendering access to space increasingly difficult, or at worst, impossible.
Yet the two may come to be linked. Our planet’s atmosphere naturally pulls orbiting debris downward and incinerates it in the thicker lower atmosphere, but increasing carbon dioxide levels are lowering the density of the upper atmosphere, which may diminish this effect. A study presented last month at the European Conference on Space Debris says that the problem has been underestimated, and that the amount of space junk in o
Data from the trial will help to shape plans for Britain’s booster programme starting this year.
Volunteers may receive a different brand of vaccine for their booster than the one with which they were originally inoculated.
Those who received two doses developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, for instance, might receive a third from AstraZeneca or Valneva.
The other four vaccines being studied are from Moderna, Novavax, Johnson & Johnson and CureVac.
Those taking part will be given a booster at least 10 to 12 weeks after their second shot, and then be monitored for months after the trial to evaluate their immune response and any side-effects.