“Are you pregnant?” This is the question women who toast with apple spritzer at a party must expect. Because everyone knows: Sparkling wine, beer, wine, cocktails and other drinks with alcohol are taboo for pregnant women. Nevertheless, in Germany alone, several thousand babies are born every year with alcohol damage because their mother drank during … Read more
Barely visible needles, also known as microneedles, are well on the way to ushering in a new, painless era of injections and blood tests. Regardless of whether they are part of a syringe or attached to a plaster, microneedles have a decisive advantage: They minimize pain because they do not come into contact with the … Read more
Scientists from Novosibirsk from the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine have developed a combined method for the determination of influenza viruses H1N1 and SARS-CoV-2. The test result can be obtained in just an hour, and no expensive equipment is required for this. Experts note that the PCR analysis, which is now widely used, … Read more
Another 200 whales have washed up off the coast of the Australian island of Tasmania. The total number of stranded animals thus comes to 470. – On a reconnaissance flight, rescue workers saw a new large group of pilot whales that had washed up. Most would have already died. The rescue has been underway for … Read more
The sudden death of hundreds of elephants was caused by toxins in waterholes, according to the Botswana government. – “Our latest tests have identified cyanobacterial neurotoxins as a cause of death,” Mmadi Reuben of the government’s Department of Wildlife Management and National Parks said at a news conference. The toxins are produced by cyanobacteria, better … Read more
Everything will have happened in five minutes, they report. A family was fishing on Lake Marsh-Miller in the US state of Wisconsin when they spotted a bear cub swimming with difficulty. He had a plastic jar stuck in his head. “We knew that if we didn’t do anything, he probably wouldn’t be able to reach … Read more
The head of the forest monitoring service of the Chelonia association (association for the defense of wild animals), Fernando Gómez, excludes presence of a Nile crocodile on the banks of the Douro River, at the confluence of the Pisuerga River with the Douro, in the Pesqueruela area of Valladolid, advances the local newspaper El Norte … Read more
2020-06-04T08: 00 2020-06-04T14: 42 https://ria.ru/20200604/1572424750.html Scientists find out when the most effective infection protection crashes https://cdn23.img.ria.ru/images/07e4/05/15/1571771744_0:128:2000:1253_1036x0_80_0_0_0711e843d3da499f7f120fc7fae5b2a8.jpg RIA News https://cdn22.img.ria.ru/i/export/ria/logo.png — RIA News https://cdn22.img.ria.ru/i/export/ria/logo.png — MOSCOW, June 4 – RIA Novosti, Tatyana Pichugina. In Moscow, more than 14 percent of those tested showed antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, deputy mayor Anastasia Rakova said. In her opinion, this indicates … Read more
Each month, Release digs into an environmental theme. After hunting, skiing, and biodiversity, fourth episode, is sobriety our future? “It was only the health crisis that pushed me to produce more waste.” On the other side of the screen, Sébastien Moreau, 45, smirks and optimism in the heyday. Despite the constraints imposed by two months … Read more
Question asked by Tsarorius on 05/04/2020 Hello, You are asking us about a controversy that arose in April from the presentation of work by researchers at the IHU Méditerranée infection on the effects of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin in people with Covid-19. With this question: did the study follow the procedures relating to patient protection? … Read more