Net amount should be broken down in analyses Instead, the experts suggest splitting the net amount into gross assets and debts and looking at their combined impact. In addition, the wealth effects should be analyzed using a specific statistical approach (“Generalized Additive Models”). “In a simulation study, we were able to show that this approach … Read more
Only older people over the age of 60 and people with risk factors for a severe course of the corona virus should continue to receive booster vaccinations, preferably in autumn, when they are also vaccinated against influenza or pneumococci. This also applies to employees of nursing homes and clinics. However, the Stiko has not yet … Read more
It is found in mature cheddar cheese and mushrooms, in potatoes, lettuce, nuts, apples, pears and cream cheese, whole grain products and wheat germ: spermidine. We take in up to 15 mg per day, depending on what we eat. Perhaps the polyamine (molecules that cells need to survive and grow) would hardly be on our … Read more
In an EU comparison, Germany is slightly above average (73 percent basic immunization, 55 percent at least one so-called booster). In some western EU countries, the willingness to vaccinate was greater, as figures from the EU health authority ECDC show, for example in Italy (84 and 76 percent) or Denmark (81 and 63 percent). In … Read more
Since almost all corona measures have been withdrawn, the epidemiologists at the RKI can only appeal to common sense. “It therefore remains very important to implement the existing recommendations and, if symptoms of a respiratory infection such as a runny nose, sore throat or cough occur – regardless of the vaccination status and regardless of … Read more
Opinions are divided on ginger, both in terms of taste and whether and, if so, what it does. A research group from the Technical University of Munich has been working on the finger-shaped tuber in the laboratory and found out that ginger stimulates the immune cells. Experiments have shown that even small amounts of a … Read more
Good visibility for Central Germany: You should have binoculars to hand for observation Although C/2022 E3 is so far away, we can observe it. In early February, its brightness at the Nachimmel is 5.5 mag. The magnitude (mag) describes the apparent brightness of a star or celestial body. The smaller the number, the brighter the … Read more
Light is considered hope, life and essential. In the summer, when the sky is blue, our bodies are surrounded by clouds of illumination up to 100,000 Lux. It’s a completely different story in the winter, when the luminosity only reaches about 3,500 lux, far too dim for many people. Not a few suffer from winter … Read more
Researchers are fiercely discussing what led to the adaptation of corona vaccines to the BA.5 variant. While vaccine makers Biontech and Moderna are touting the benefits of the new bivalent booster vaccines, a new independent laboratory study by researchers in Göttingen and Hanover now suggests that while there is an additional benefit from the upgrade, … Read more
A study from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania recently showed that most young people have already built up at least a certain basic immunity to corona. With the publication of a new study, the Robert Koch Institute has now confirmed this impression for those over 18 as well. According to this, 92 percent of adults in Germany already … Read more