Nathan O’Hagan After presumably discussing the matter in boardrooms thick with cigar smoke, last week Liverpool and Manchester United put forward plans for a proposed restructuring of English football. Going under the appropriately grandiose moniker of Project Big Picture, the fairly radical plans included reducing the Premier League from twenty to eighteen clubs and scrapping […]
Read MoreAsthma does not appear to increase the risk for a person contracting COVID-19 or influence its severity, according to a team of Rutgers researchers.“Older age and conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and obesity are reported risk factors for the development and progression of COVID-19,” said Reynold A. […]
Read MoreA world-first study has found that severely overweight people are less likely to be able to re-wire their brains and find new neural pathways, a discovery that has significant implications for people recovering from a stroke or brain injury.In a new paper published in Brain Sciences, researchers from UniSA and Deakin University show that brain […]
Read MoreBill Mcloughlin Since the start of the lockdown, the Royal Family have used their positions to attempt to bring the nation together. Multiple members of the Royal Family have been seeing visiting members of the public across the nation in order to give royal fans in the UK some hope throughout the pandemic. Amid their […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Senior Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Rehman Malik has warned the government against exposing expose former President Asif Ali Zardari to COVID-19.Senator Malik, the Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior, expressed his concerns over the issuance of arrest warrants for former president Asif Ali Zardari He said the National Accountability Bureau shall […]
Read MoreTaj Nabi Khan Islamabad: Implementation of the health guideline protocols under the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) is significant measure to help protect the masses from the ‘re-emergence spike’ or what may be called as ‘the second wave’ of coronavirus, particularly in wake of the changing weather conditions of Pakistan. The famous old proverb of “prevention […]
Read MoreNükhet Varlik Columbia: When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long this will continue.Since the beginning of the pandemic, epidemiologists and public health specialists have been using mathematical models to forecast the […]
Read MoreTim Korso Washington: Bill Gates, founder of tech giant Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has projected that wealthy countries will return to normal life by the end of 2021, should the vaccines, currently being developed by western countries, work and be deployed in a timely manner. He added, however, that this is […]
Read MoreNewswire Beijing: As the country’s box office aims to overtake the U.S.’ this year amid the pandemic, industry observers say political tensions could lead to a permanent drag on major studios’ bottom line.Battered by the pandemic and growing political headwinds, Hollywood’s business prospects in China are becoming bleak. A state of tumult in Washington-Beijing diplomatic […]
Read MoreMarisa Penaloza Auckland: New Zealand’s Prime Minister lifted coronavirus restrictions on its largest city last week, after the country appears to have eradicated community spread of the virus a second time.“We can let ourselves once again feel pride,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, “that we managed to get to that position together.” After a second […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Beijing: It was the second time for David Bartosch, a Beijing-based professor, to attend the Nishan Forum on World Civilizations that took place last week in Confucius’ birthplace of Qufu, east China’s Shandong Province.Unlike the previous occasions, however, this year’s cultural exchange came at an unprecedented time amid the COVID-19 epidemic. The menace […]
Read MoreBy Liu Yi – China Daily As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten the globe, the world economy has fallen into a serious recession. Despite this time of crisis, the development of the Belt and Road Initiative has not ceased.Instead, from January to August, China’s trade volume with countries involved in the BRI grew by […]
Read MoreFormer World No. 1 Maria Sharapova spoke about her diet and cooking skills in a recent interview with the Porsche.The five-time Grand Slam singles champion Sharapova, who is a Porsche Brand Ambassador, says: “What you put into your body is always going to be extremely important. There are many lessons I have taken away from […]
Read MoreFerdinando Giuglian Rome: Italy was a symbol of the first wave of the pandemic. It was the first country in the world to go into a national lockdown, as its hospitals — especially in cities such as Bergamo and Cremona in the north — struggled to cope with the spike of cases and there was […]
Read MoreNewswire Moscow: Post-registration phase of clinical trials of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus which has been launched recently should be completed by the middle of next summer.After that it will be possible to continue the study of the vaccine in children, Director of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of […]
Read MoreKuala Lumpur: Malaysia has won the “Health and Medical Tourism: Destination of the Year” title for the fourth time.Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah dedicated the win, which was announced at the 2020 Medical Tourism Award ceremony in London last week, to all the stakeholders in Malaysia’s healthcare sector.“Once again my heartiest congratulations […]
Read MoreCovert Report Sun-seeking behaviour is linked to genes involved in addiction, behavioural and personality traits and brain function, according to a study of more than 260,000 people led by King’s College London researchers.This means that people’s behaviour towards seeking sun is complicated by a genetic predisposition, and this needs to be taken into account when […]
Read MoreCovert Report Those of you who spend hours at the gym with the aim of burning as many calories as possible may be disappointed to learn that all the while your nervous system is subconsciously working against you.Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology have found that our nervous systems are remarkably adept […]
Read MoreBeijing: The sound fundamentals backing China’s industrial economy has remained intact despite the impact of COVID-19, but efforts must be made to combat challenges and make up for the losses, a senior industrial official has said. “China’s industrial performance has improved month by month amid effective epidemic control and policy support,” Xin Guobin, vice minister […]
Read MoreRome: Health authorities in Italy say returning tourists must act responsibly to help maintain the country’s low rate of new COVID-19 infections. Italy moved to stage three of its recovery in the middle of June. In July it managed to keep the rate of infection stable, with 300 or fewer new cases a day. That’s […]
Read MoreRome: More than 3,000 people have volunteered to take part in human trials for an Italian-developed coronavirus vaccine, reports news agency ANSA. This was announced by Francesco Vaia, the health director of Rome’s Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital, a specialist centre for infectious diseases which has played a central role in battling Italy’s covid-19 crisis. The Rome […]
Read MoreBeijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday signed a presidential order awarding four persons the national medal and honorary title for their outstanding contribution to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. Xi’s presidential order came after the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress voted at the 21st session to adopt a decision to confer the […]
Read MoreRome: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has said that other countries are learning from Italy’s efforts in tackling the coronavirus. “Grazie mille @robersperanza, #Italy Health Minister, for a very good call and for your strong support to @WHO,” Tedros commented as he retweeted a post by Italian health minister Roberto […]
Read MoreTime: Lazio regional health authorities have linked nightlife with covid-19 clusters at Sabaudia and Fregene, popular beach resorts near Rome. Establishments at both beaches have been shut down in recent days, with staff placed under quarantine, following a cluster of coronavirus cases. Lazio health authorities say the clusters are “linked to nightlife and decreased attention” […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Shanghai: A digital alert network to spot major, emerging infectious diseases will be established in Shanghai to better support monitoring and analysis of possible epidemics, virus tracing and epidemic control. The network with big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies will become an infrastructure project in the municipality’s public health system […]
Read MoreLondon: China has largely controlled COVID-19, and the rest of the world can still learn from China’s successes in bringing its outbreak under control, according to the latest editorial by medical journal The Lancet. China’s response shows the importance of domestic research and public health capacity, said the editorial.Chinese scientists were quickly able to identify […]
Read MoreRome: Italy’s Health Minister, Roberto Speranza, stated that the country is out of the covd-19 storm during his speech at the Coldiretti assembly – the Italian organization of farmers. “I believe that Italy has made it, I’m not thinking of the government but of the country as a whole. It wasn’t obvious, we were the […]
Read MoreBeijing: Beijing lowered the emergency response to COVID-19 from level 2 to level 3 on Monday, setting an example of how a metropolis can contain the breakout with regular measures as the threat of infection looms. The Chinese capital’s announcement of lowering the emergency response came after the city had reported no newly confirmed cases […]
Read MoreNew York: China is on track for impressive economic recovery from the COVID-19 shock thanks to the nation’s effective efforts to contain the outbreak, experts said. “We think the economic recovery is well on track,” Lucy Qiu, emerging markets strategist at UBS Global Wealth Management, told Xinhua on Tuesday. “Effective containment of the pandemic and […]
Read MoreAcross the entire world, women can expect to live longer than men. But why does this occur, and was this always the case? According to a new study led by University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology researchers, significant differences in life expectancies between the sexes first emerged as recently as the turn […]
Read MoreThe human eye is an amazing instrument and can accurately distinguish between the tiniest, most subtle differences in color. Where human vision excels in one area, it seems to fall short in others, such as perceiving minuscule details because of the natural limitations of human optics. In a paper published in The Optical Society’s new […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing on Friday said that his country would provide 1,000 more ventilators to Pakistan during the current month so that it could fight against the deadly COVID-19 in a more efficient way. “We [China] have so far provided seven million Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and 600 ventilators along with […]
Read MoreBy Ren Hongbin – China Daily President Xi Jinping is leading China’s fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak. And thanks to the painstaking efforts made by the entire nation, China had managed to largely contain the virus before a new cluster of infections was detected in Beijing on June 11. In this entire process, central […]
Read MoreIslamabad: ”ArtAid” will put art works for online auction both for funds as well as barter for supplies to provide much needed assistance for the affected low income families in the testing time. Renowned artist Jamal Shah said “ArtAid” was launched in 2005 as a platform to support the earthquake affected people and held the […]
Read MoreBy Mehwish Azam Islamabad: Amid all the disarray caused by novel coronavirus (Covid-19), capital hiking trails of Margala Hills National Park are providing a therapeutic activity to the residents of Islamabad who have been confined to their homes for several weeks due to lockdown. Soon after the Islamabad administration decided to reopen hiking trails with […]
Read MoreBy Erfan Khan Islamabad: The Monsoon waves have started penetrating into the country’s horizons in the month of July and soon the moisture laden air will grip most of the country including the twin cities, thus creating an ideal atmosphere for seasonal plantation. Myriad varieties of fruits and vegetables can be sown during the season, […]
Read MoreIt is generally well known that men have an overall shorter life expectancy compared to women. A recent study, led by Uppsala University researchers, shows a correlation between a loss of the Y chromosome in blood cells and both a shorter life span and higher mortality from cancer in other organs. Men have a shorter […]
Read MoreResearchers at the University of Bonn have discovered a new signaling pathway to combat excess body weight. The number of overweight persons is greatly increasing worldwide — and as a result is the risk of suffering a heart attack, stroke, diabetes or Alzheimer’s disease. For this reason, many people dream of an efficient method for […]
Read MoreOver one million people in sub-Saharan Africa will contract malaria this year because they live near a large dam, according to a new study which, for the first time, has correlated the location of large dams with the incidence of malaria and quantified impacts across the region. The study finds that construction of an expected […]
Read MoreWhat does it mean to simulate the human brain? Why is it important to do so? And is it even possible to simulate the brain separately from the body it exists in? These questions are discussed in a new paper published in the scientific journal Neuron. Simulating the brain means modeling it on a computer. […]
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