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H1N1

What you need to know about the vaccination program

Find a clinic near you but before you do, should you get the shot?

William Feindel, left, is reunited with former patient Murray Graham in Montreal. (The portrait in the background is of Wilder Penfield, the institute's founder.)
Focus

Mental giants

The operations are intricate and often dramatic – opening a skull with a flexible saw, removing half a brain. It's par for the course for specialists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year Nov 13, 2009 6:57PM EST

A grape picker throws grapes into a bucket at the Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, southern England October 22, 2009.
Climate change

Britain revives its long-dead red-wine making tradition

Rising temperatures have already redrawn the international wine map, with wine regions developing characteristics of areas further to the south Nov 11, 2009 1:30PM EST

Picture taken on October 7, 2003 shows Russian Nobel Physics Prize laureate, professor Vitaly Ginzburg, talking to journalists at the Academy of Science's P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow.
Obituary

Russian physicist was a father of Soviet bomb

Vitaly Ginzburg won 2003 Nobel Prize in physics with two other scientists for contribution to theories on superconductivity Nov 09, 2009 11:44AM EST

Volunteer Kevin Fairbairn holds a sign as he encourages residents of the Downtown Eastside to enter a clinic to receive the H1N1 flu vaccine in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday October 26, 2009.
The Globe on H1N1

Everything you need to know about the virus

What are the symptoms? Who is most at risk? Should you get the shot or not? Visit our Swine Flu hub for the latest news and information Oct 27, 2009 1:54PM EDT

In this April 2009 file photo, a commercial fishing boat passes Ram Island Ledge Light, near Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on its way back to Portland Harbor

Weather could change fish-eating habits in U.S., Canada

Typical meal in New England could eventually change to the Atlantic croaker, red hake and summer flounder normally found to the south Nov 12, 2009 2:16PM EST

Greenland ice loss accelerating: study

Loss due equally to icebergs breaking away and meltwater, nudging up sea levels Nov 12, 2009 5:17PM EST

New dinosaur species found

Scientists may have stumbled onto a ‘paleontological oasis' in central South Africa that may yield further previously unknown dinosaur species Nov 11, 2009 1:57PM EST

Why can't chimps speak?

Scientists have pinpointed a mutation in a gene that might help explain why humans can speak and chimpanzees can't Nov 11, 2009 1:27PM EST

China spurs demand for ivory

Banned since 1989, insatiable appetite for status symbols by country's nouveau riche is driving renewed trade Nov 11, 2009 2:01PM EST

King Tut's tomb to get five-year reno

Thousands of tourists visit the underground chambers in the Valley of the Kings every month, bringing heat and humidity Nov 11, 2009 1:44PM EST

Chemical BPA linked to sex problems

Heavy exposure to bisphenol A on the job linked to impotence and lower sexual desire and satisfaction, according to study Nov 11, 2009 1:58PM EST

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