Suvendrini Kakuchi Tokyo: On January 1 at a shrine in the leafy suburb of Asagaya in west Tokyo, Michiko Kubo and her husband, each wearing two face masks, joined a long line of worshippers all standing a metre apart to welcome 2022. “Last year we stayed at home following official guidelines to avoid crowded places. […]
Read MoreA greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet which had been assessed through an index made with biomarkers during a 20-year scientific monitoring is associated with a lower mortality in adults over 65. This is one of the main conclusions of a study led by Cristina Andrés-Lacueva, head of the Research Group on Biomarkers and Nutritional […]
Read MoreMultiple sclerosis (MS), a progressive disease that affects 2.8 million people worldwide and for which there is no definitive cure, is likely caused by infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), according to a study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers. “The hypothesis that EBV causes MS has been investigated by our […]
Read MoreNewswire Tokyo: Japan plans to allow 87 government-sponsored foreign students into the country, making an exception to the country’s current entry ban on nonresident foreigners amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the top spokesman said this week. Entry of the students will possibly be allowed from later this month and they will be required to quarantine for […]
Read MoreNewswire Tokyo: Japan is considering placing 11 prefectures, including Tokyo and its vicinity, under a COVID-19 quasi-state of emergency to curb rapidly spreading coronavirus cases, government sources said Monday. Any declaration of a quasi-emergency hinges on requests made by these prefectures, but the Japanese government is preparing to make a decision as the highly transmissible […]
Read MoreDing Gang The online edition of the New York Times published an article written by Alexandra Stevenson on January 6 about the new outbreak of COVID-19 in Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The headline of the story reads “China’s Latest Lockdown Shows Stubborn Resolve on Zero-Covid.” One of the keywords is “stubborn”. The dictionary explains […]
Read MoreWhen elderly people stay active, their brains have more of a class of proteins that enhances the connections between neurons to maintain healthy cognition, a UC San Francisco study has found. This protective impact was found even in people whose brains at autopsy were riddled with toxic proteins associated with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. […]
Read MoreTokyo: Japan plans to maintain its strict border restrictions of barring almost all new entries by foreign nationals until late February in a bid to stave off the omicron variant amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases in the country, sources familiar with the matter said. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will announce the measure possibly on […]
Read MoreDr Theodore Karasik We are now into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and many are saying “enough is enough,” sharpening the political divides over public health. But with skyrocketing numbers of cases thanks to the highly infectious omicron variant, there are still many requirements if we are to even begin contending with the […]
Read MoreSara Al-Mulla It is lamentable that after two years we are still battling an insidious COVID-19 pandemic as the virus travels far and wide, constantly mutating, and wreaking havoc across the global community. Nations have been critically tested, having to recalibrate their policies and regulations on a regular basis. With the emergence of the virulent […]
Read MoreDue to a “one in two million” incidence, a mother from California gave birth to twins who were only 15 minutes apart but on different days. A woman gave birth to twins just 15 minutes apart but on different days, all thanks to ‘one in two million’ cases. Fatima Madrigal gave birth to her baby […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Federal minister for planning and development Asad Umar said this week that China had played a crucial role in Pakistan’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. Speaking to Gwadar Pro on the last day of the year 2021, Umar paid rich tribute to Iron Brother China for always standing in support […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Pakistan-manufactured Covid vaccines, produced with China’s help, are getting a great response at the vaccination centers, officials said this week. Pakistan had signed a deal with Chinese company CansinoBio in late March to import a concentrate of the vaccine in bulk to process and package the vaccine locally. Later, Pakistan started producing […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Lahore: Pakistan Punjab Provincial Health Minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid here this week inaugurated the ‘Silk Road Clinical Research Center’ at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) with funding from the Chinese government. Speaking on the occasion, the Health Minister said that UHS played an important role in research, adding that continuous work on […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Denmark this week donated over 484,000 COVID-19 Moderna vaccine doses to Pakistan. The vaccines donated by the Denmark Embassy in Pakistan were handed over to Pakistan at a ceremony here. “The Ceremony was attended by Charge d’ Affairs, Danish Embassy, Simon Kjeldsen, Dy National Prog Manager @EPIPakistan, Dr. Soofia Yunus & UNICEF’s OIC Dy […]
Read MoreNewswire Tokyo: The Japanese government this week launched a smartphone app that allows people to display proof of vaccination that can be used for multiple purposes, including immigration procedures. The app, called the COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate Application and available for both iPhone and Android smartphones, displays information such as the number of doses a user […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology this week drafted the National Hemp Policy and sent it to the federal cabinet for approval. Under the policy the federal government would award licenses to 100 companies to grow Hemp so that the country could join the billion-rupee international Hemp market, Federal Science and Technology Minister […]
Read MoreAntibodies to common-cold viruses, collectively known as hCoV, may hamper the body’s response to SARS-CoV-2, according to new data. Earlier studies have disagreed on whether previously acquired hCoV antibodies protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection. “A major contributing factor to the discrepancies … is that they were not able to examine the level of hCoV antibodies in […]
Read MoreYossi Mekelberg Desperate times call for desperate measures; the trick is to ensure that the side effects of the measures taken do not worsen the original predicament. There is now a strong sense of understandable desperation among societies and governments in their wish to see off COVID-19, to the extent that the idea of compulsory […]
Read MoreNorthwestern University researchers have developed a new injectable therapy that harnesses “dancing molecules” to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injuries. In a new study, researchers administered a single injection to tissues surrounding the spinal cords of paralyzed mice. Just four weeks later, the animals regained the ability to walk. By sending […]
Read MoreTetsushi Kajimoto and Kiyoshi Takenaka Newswire Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed this week to ensure worker wage hikes to protect the economy from rising global inflation, while strengthening the country’s defences as it deals with an assertive China and unpredictable North Korea. Kishida made the remarks on the opening day of parliament’s extra […]
Read MorePromising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity: University of Virginia scientists have identified 14 genes that can cause and three that can prevent weight gain. The findings pave the way for treatments to combat a health problem that affects more than 40% of American adults. “We know of hundreds of gene […]
Read MoreA rare disease that still affects humans today has been found in the fossilized remains of a duck-billed dinosaur that roamed the Earth at least 66 million years ago. The back of a skull found in a Grecian cave has been dated to 210,000 years ago. Known as Apidima 1, right, researchers were able to […]
Read MoreA consequence of global warming is a greater frequency and intensity of extreme heat events. This extreme heat is associated with a greater risk of adverse cardiovascular incidents, especially for adults with pre-existing cardiovascular diseases. Experts writing in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, published by Elsevier, discuss how extreme heat affects cardiovascular health, why health […]
Read MoreHu Xijin I have read the notice about the quarantine of pet dogs in Shangrao, East China’s Jiangxi Province. Killing a pet dog with no evidence of being infected by COVID-19 and displaying the video clip of the process clearly lack of the basis of rules. The official notice released after the case said that […]
Read MoreSara Al-Mulla One of life’s greatest blessings is to be taken under the wing of an illuminating, caring and wise teacher. Time and time again, people have recounted compelling stories of how their teachers transformed their lives in profound ways. This truth has never been more potent and palpable than during the COVID-19 outbreak, where […]
Read MoreSmoking is one of the common causes of death all around the world, yet it is very difficult to get rid of the habit. Here are a couple of facts about getting rid of smoking that every smoker should know. As soon as a smoker quits smoking or smokes his last cigarette, he starts reducing […]
Read MoreHu Xijin The US has reopened its borders to people from 33 countries. Travelers must be fully vaccinated and provide results of a negative coronavirus test. The purpose is to promote economic recovery and boost the tourism industry. Most countries on the list are those in Europe, yet the continent is once again back at […]
Read MoreCutting 20% of sugar from packaged foods and 40% from beverages could prevent 2.48 million cardiovascular disease events (such as strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests), 490,000 cardiovascular deaths, and 750,000 diabetes cases in the U.S. over the lifetime of the adult population, according to micro-simulation study published in Circulation. A team of researchers from Massachusetts […]
Read MoreHu Xijin In recent days, there have been increasing voices on the internet that criticize China’s strict implementation of pandemic prevention measures. Western media have collectively targeted China’s zero-COVID-19 policy, slandering the sustainability of China’s anti-pandemic approach. The complaints on the internet are more complicated. Many of them are about the impact on normal life, […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The national tally of Covid-19 active cases this week was recorded 22,564 with 457 more people testing positive for the deadly virus and 428 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours. Ten corona patients have died during the last 24 hours, nine of the deceased were under treatment in different hospitals […]
Read MoreInfant boys with a higher composition of a particular gut microbiota show enhanced neurodevelopment, according to a new study. The University of Alberta-led research followed more than 400 infants from the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) at its Edmonton site. Boys with a gut bacterial composition that was high in the bacteria Bacteroidetes at one year […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Construction of the extension of Intensive Care at Maternal and Child Care Centre and Children’s Hospital was launched at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad this week. The grant assistance from Japan worth $32 million (3.62 billion Japanese Yen) was signed in Tokyo two years ago. On this special occasion, MATSUDA […]
Read MoreAndrew Hammond This week’s 10th anniversary of the fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya exemplifies how much of the 2010s were a wild period for international politics, with a long wave of political turbulence following the 2008-09 international financial crisis. The fallout from that period, which left the global economic system teetering on the […]
Read MoreChris Doyle No country can afford to wait until the global pandemic has ended before determining the proper lessons to be learned. The stakes are too high. That is why a UK parliamentary select committee report into the coronavirus published on Oct. 12 received so much attention. The findings are stark, describing it as Britain’s […]
Read MoreYossi Mekelberg A quick glance at the world map of COVID-19 vaccine distribution illustrates how, yet again, the world’s poor are being left to their own fate, while the affluent parts of the globe are gradually returning to some sort of normality. Vaccines have been the real game-changers in avoiding repeated lockdowns and preventing public […]
Read MoreCovert Report Canberra: Pakistani High Commissioner to Australia Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri has appreciated the Australians for enthusiastically participating in the Covid vaccination campaign. “80% of eligible Australians have had their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Well done Australia,” he tweeted. The envoy, who recently took over the new assignment, encouraged the Pakistanis to get vaccinated […]
Read MorePromising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity: University of Virginia scientists have identified 14 genes that can cause and three that can prevent weight gain. The findings pave the way for treatments to combat a health problem that affects more than 40% of American adults. “We know of hundreds of gene […]
Read MoreNewswire Tokyo: Slightly over 60% of people in Japan have received their second shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, the government said this week. According to the government, 60.9% of people have had their second dose, while 71.3% have received their first. The proportion of fully vaccinated residents is expected to top 70% this month. About […]
Read MoreThe experience of a fruit fly dying from cancer may seem worlds away from that of a human with a life-threatening tumor, yet University of California, Berkeley, researchers are finding commonalities between the two that could lead to ways to prolong the lives of cancer patients. Fruit fly research is already pointing to a new […]
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