Health & Life Hacks

    How safe is it to travel on public transport amid COVID-19?

    Public transport is the most eco-friendly component of the urban environment, as it can significantly reduce the “carbon footprint” of a city dweller and save resources – there is no need to use a private car. In 2020, a pandemic and accompanying lockdowns dealt a powerful blow to municipal transport. How are things going after […]

    A biotechnology company has created a vegan cheese made of microalgae

    A biotechnology company from Singapore has developed a genuinely vegan cheese from protein flour and microalgae. It can be eaten solid or melted, and it tastes like cheddar. Singapore’s Sophie’s BioNutrients creates food products that focus on green production. In mid-November, they announced that they had developed a nutrient-rich cheese made from photosynthetic microalgae, completely […]

    Dubai 7th International Nutrition Congress highlights the role of technology in nutrition

    The seventh Dubai International Nutrition Congress (DINC) started on November 4 under the theme, “Challenges, Resilience and Sustainability in Nutrition”. The three-day congress is taking place in a hybrid format in Dubai. Organized by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), in cooperation with Index Conferences and Exhibitions and certain regional and international organisations, the DINC aims […]

    Moving from a pandemic to an endemic disease

    World Health Organisation’s (WHO) deputy director-general Sowmya Viswanathan had hinted at the fact earlier this year that COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 would transform from being a pandemic into an endemic disease, commented the English language daily ‘Gulf Today.’ Other medical experts, especially from Western countries, are talking about it now. As the outbreak of COVID-19 in […]

    The WHO expects high mortality in Europe due to COVID-19 in winter

    The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Europe, Hans Kluge, described the condition for declaring the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in the world. This applies to the world system and the elementary disregard for rules and misinformation. Conditions for the end of the pandemic “We have to learn to live with […]

    Pfizer announces successful trials of COVID-19 pills: 89% effectiveness

    Pfizer showed COVID-19 cure. In clinical trials, an antiviral drug has been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization by 89%. The company promises to provide all documents to the US regulator by the end of November. The American company Pfizer stated that the anti-coronavirus pill created by its specialists reduces the risk of death […]

    Scientists have named the countries that may be the first to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022

    As the incidence of Delta strains decreases in many parts of the world, scientists are studying the possibility of COVID-19 becoming an endemic disease. However, experts warn that COVID-19 remains an unpredictable virus that mutates. Such forecasts were published by Reuters, citing epidemiologists. This means that the United States, Britain, Portugal and India may emerge […]

    The UK approves Merck’s COVID-19 pill in world first

    Britain on November 4 became the first country in the world to approve a potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral pill jointly developed by U.S.-based Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, in a boost to the fight against the pandemic, Reuters reports. Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) recommended the drug, molnupiravir, for use in people with […]

    Due to climate change, half of the people on the planet will have allergies. What can be done?

    From 10 to 30% of the world’s population suffers from hay fever – an allergy to flowering plants. For allergy sufferers, the sneezing season (e.g., in Europe) can last from spring to mid-autumn – and is gradually getting longer. We’ve found a brilliant explanation of why morbidity is progressing and how people’s health is related […]

    COVID-19 race. World pharmaceutical companies have started a new chase: for drugs to treat COVID-19

    First of all, let us introduce the newest hopeful message: the WHO representative has named the probable date of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Hans Kluge, director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European Regional Office, said the world would emerge from a coronavirus pandemic in 2022. He said this in an interview with […]