It was once part of the most important corona measures, who didn’t have a bottle of hand gel in their bag, but it probably was for nothing. Washing your hands hardly prevents the transmission of the corona virus. Last week, the RIVM amended the official advice when it comes to the contagiousness of surfaces, such … Read more
Worldwide, nearly half a billion people suffer from diabetes. More than half of them are unaware that they have the disease, it shows new research that in The Lancet popped up. The researchers studied data from 680,000 people between the ages of 25 and 64 from 55 countries. 37,000 of them were diabetic. More than … Read more
Police found the body of a 39-year-old man in a dinosaur statue in Barcelona on Saturday afternoon. The man probably wanted to find his phone that had fallen into the picture. He then got stuck. A man and his son saw that there was something in the papier-mâché stegosaurus in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a … Read more
You think you are done with it, because a large part of the population has been vaccinated, but then the corona virus flares up again. It has happened to a number of countries, including Uruguay, Chile and the Seychelles. De Volkskrant cites three reasons for this, from which we can also draw our lessons here. … Read more
The Havana syndrome has been causing problems around US embassies for the past five years. At least 130 people are now dealing with the consequences of the mysterious disease. It concerns sixty cases in China and Cuba and another 70 patients in Europe and Asia. The disease first showed up among US embassy personnel in … Read more
In the US, children as young as 12 years old can receive a corona vaccine. In the Netherlands, this is still very reluctant to respond, while there are plenty of reasons to give children an injection. Children may become less ill from the coronavirus, but they can keep the pandemic going by spreading the virus … Read more
Kendall Jenner has launched a new YouTube series on mental health. The top model, who previously announced that she regularly suffers from panic attacks, makes the series for the American fashion magazine Vogue. In the series, titled Open Minded, 25-year-old Jenner talks to various experts to better understand what exactly her panic attacks are. In … Read more
You only have to be exposed to air pollution for a few weeks or your cognitive performance will deteriorate. This is shown by a study by Columbia University. However, it appears that aspirin counteracts the harmful effects. Examples of brief exposure to air pollution are forest fires, smog, passive smoking or barbecuing. The researchers looked … Read more
The famous / infamous nursery rhyme Baby Shark is the most viewed video on YouTube with over 8.4 billion views. Ryan Reynolds’ 1-year-old daughter has also often seen the cheerfully annoying song about the little shark and his family. Too often it turns out, because father Ryan can no longer take it. However, the actor … Read more
Last year, a few studies appeared that claimed that smokers have no additional risk of becoming seriously ill from the coronavirus and that they would become infected less often. At least one of those studies has now been withdrawn due to ties to the tobacco industry. In that study, scientists stated that smokers were 23 … Read more