The World Health Organization (WHO) has amended the opinion on mouth masks: they are useful in combating the spread of the coronavirus and should therefore be worn in public. The international organization says there are new studies showing that mouth masks “can form a barrier against potentially contagious droplets.” Earlier, WHO maintained that there was … Read more
A nasal spray that makes you feel like having sex for a few hours. Neuroscientist Julie Bakker (51) from the University of Liège hopes to bring her life’s work to the market in a few years. Bakker tells Het Nieuwsblad that both men and women are interested in it. But she makes it for women … Read more
Officially, the first corona infection in the Netherlands was only diagnosed on February 27. However, new figures from RIVM show that the virus was probably already in the Netherlands at the end of January and perhaps even earlier. Before February 27, at least 154 people were already walking around with corona-related complaints. It was not … Read more
Covid-19 does much more damage than a common flu virus. It causes certain changes in the blood vessels in the lungs, which can make the course of the disease so serious. Researchers at KU Leuven and others discovered this. They studied the blood vessel network in the lungs and saw unique abnormalities. Especially noticeable was … Read more
Extra vitamin K may make you less sick from a corona infection. Doctors of the Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital in Nijmegen suspect this. They discovered that corona patients who ended up on the IC had an extremely low vitamin K level in their blood. This vitamin is important for healthy blood vessels and lungs. Thus, a … Read more
The coronavirus may not have spread to humans in the infamous market in Wuhan. That is what Chinese researchers state in a publication in the authoritative Nature. Until now, Covid-19 was thought to have ended up in a food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan from a bat or pangolan to humans and then … Read more
The countries where many Dutch people vacation – France, Spain and Italy – were at the center of the epidemic. And the situation there is still shaky. There are some holiday countries where measures were taken quickly and effectively, so that the virus has managed less and is now virtually gone. So countries where it … Read more
The blue light of your phone makes you fall asleep worse. We cannot concentrate for longer than 25 minutes and children have a shorter attention span than before. It is all not true. “Myths of concentration” is what professor of cognitive psychology Stefan van der Stigchel calls them. The professor at Utrecht University specializes in … Read more
On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the mortality rate in 24 European countries surveyed totaled 159,000. That is 9 percent more than the number of reported corona deaths in these countries. The death rate means that 159,000 more people died than in the same period last year. The official death toll from … Read more
Almost half of the patients in a Gelderland institution did not have a correct diagnosis, research shows among a hundred people with a psychiatric disorder. Trouw reports that. The patients had been in the GGNet institution for decades. They faced conditions such as psychoses and schizophrenia. In 49 percent, the diagnosis was outdated, incomplete or … Read more