AAT opens registrations for new qualification to address skills demand and unlock £1.2bn of growth

The launch comes as recent AAT research, from its Filling the Gap report, highlights the scale of the skills challenges across the finance sector, with 84% of employers facing barriers to upskilling staff and 72% saying…

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AAT opens registration for new qualification to meet skills demand and unlock £1.2bn growth

The launch comes as recent AAT research, from its Filling the Gap report, highlights the scale of the skills challenges across the finance sector, with 84% of employers facing barriers to upskilling staff and 72% saying…

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US health officials exclude measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania from counts

"This is highly unusual," said Debra Houry, former chief medical officer of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She noted that this did not happen with the three deaths reported from measles in Texas…

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Caregiver creep: how helping elderly relatives can snowball into a full-time job

Drive them to a doctor's appointment. Grab groceries. However, light tasks – just "helping out" here and there – may eventually snowball into the avalanche of full-time caregiving, a phenomenon becoming known as…

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‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds

The groundbreaking technology has been trained on millions of patients and works by extracting more information from a routine electrocardiogram (ECG) than the human eye can typically see. The traditional ECG, which…

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A pediatrician is running for Senate. Can doctors change the political debate over health and science?

Now, after the unexpected death of Senator Lindsey Graham, Andrews finds herself in a closely watched race. Donald Trump persuaded South Carolina voters last week to select Graham's sister, Darline , as the new…

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‘Who knows what they’re taking?’: people risk the gray market for the newest weight-loss drug

Still, the thirtysomething who lives in the Pacific north-west had hypertension, sleep apnea and body image issues, so he started taking the weight-loss drug Ozempic. While he dropped pounds, he experienced constipation…

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Sweden ends aid to Liberia in a hammer blow to women’s rights and healthcare

On 31 August, the Swedish embassy in Liberia ends a presence in the country that dates back to 1961. The billions of kronor of aid that Sweden pipes into the west African country will end on the same day, as sweeping…

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Do you have a bespoke ‘dirty zone’? | Emma Beddington

The fridge drawers are dirty zones thanks to the windfall apples I thought I would cook, but predictably left to liquefy. There's a dirty zone next to the washing machine and a mildewy one inside it. There's the…

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High-street pharmacies to launch seven-minute cholesterol checks

People aged 40 to 84 who are not pregnant and have not had a blood test in the past year will be eligible to walk into participating pharmacies for the quick pin-prick test. The test will analyse a person’s cholesterol…

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