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Last update: April 2020 | 87 visits – – news Sales of food supplements are constantly increasing. What do they correspond to, are they really necessary and do they act in a beneficial way for health? What is a dietary supplement? These are substances available without a medical prescription in pharmacies, drugstores, organic or health … Read more
It is too early for optimism in the corona crisis, warn scientists. The second wave of an epidemic could be far more devastating than the first. © Photo: Robert Michael / dpa Contact restrictions masks – all this will be necessary for a long time. Charité virologist Christian Drosten and epidemiologist Michael Meyer-Hermann warn of … Read more
Elderly people who become seriously ill from the coronavirus end up less often in intensive care (IC). This is evident from figures from the NICE (National Intensive Care Evaluation) foundation, which were requested by Trouw. “Every doctor looks at what is best for the patient in question,” explains Minister of Medical Care Martin van Rijn … Read more
11:00 PM Monday 20 April 2020 – In a worrying discovery, UK scientists have discovered the largest single (after life) risk factor when it comes to corona infection, hospitalization: it is obesity or overweight. The link between excess weight and severe symptoms of COVID-19 was highlighted, after 15,100 patients with Corona virus were hospitalized across … Read more
In the absence of tests for COVID-19, doctors can focus on the results of tests for other viruses. The detection of another respiratory infection in some cases was considered a sign of the absence of a new coronavirus. A new study shows that such an expectation can often be erroneous. Perhaps a positive test for … Read more
– 04/20/2020 – Senior Web Editor 04/20/2020 Senior Web Editor COVID-19: Also a systemic vascular inflammation – COVID-19 became known as a lung disease. It has so far been unclear why patients also experience life-threatening failure of other organs. An interdisciplinary team from the University Hospital Zurich has now shown that SARS-CoV-2 directly causes inflammation … Read more
COVID-19 also includes systemic vascular inflammation Infections with the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are known to cause severe pneumonia. However, according to a recent study, the virus also causes systemic inflammation of the so-called endothelium (inner lining of the blood vessels). This could possibly explain why a relatively large number of those affected develop cardiovascular problems … Read more
Dr. John Jabbour, the representative of the World Health Organization in Egypt, said that smoking represents a great danger for a person who smoked in the period of the epidemic, referring to “hookah” specifically as a fertile environment for transferring the new corona virus to its smoker, and that cigarettes reduce the capacity of the … Read more
“Healthy carriers of the infection act as a natural vaccine” – Felix Ivanovich, many parents are now worried about their children. They believe that they did not have enough spring sun, which means that in the fall immunity will be reduced. Is it possible to say that in September the consequences of quarantine will affect … Read more
The New York City Council is preparing a bill to open city streets to pedestrians and bicyclists during the Covid-19 pandemic, a measure that so far Mayor Bill de Blasio has rejected. – The project, which will be presented at the session on Wednesday, is promoted by the president of the City Council, Corey Johnson … Read more