Category: Health

Norway has recorded a total of 29 deaths among people over the age of 75 who received the first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, raising questions about which population groups should be included in vaccination programs. The latest figure adds six to the number of known deaths in Norway and also lowered the age (80 […]

Prostate cancer is the first male cancer, ahead of lung and colon-rectal cancers, with 50,000 new cases per year. In two out of three cases, they concern seniors over 65. But thanks to earlier detection and improved treatment, prostate cancer mortality has been declining since the 1990s. Its diagnosis is based on a clinical examination […]

Unlike the others, the GalSafe pig has a gene capable of preventing allergies. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States recently gave the green light for this animal. This will be used to produce drugs, but also meat and other allergenic cosmetics. It could also act as a “reservoir” for human organs […]

Several cases of Covid-19 have been reported from a Chilean science base in Antarctica. The new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is therefore officially present on all continents of the Earth. It is not known where or when the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus actually appeared. On the other hand, we know that its spread has been meteoric, so far […]

A recent British study indicates that our mental health in adolescence and childhood influences certain biomarkers. These are markers for adult life as well as life expectancy. Harmful consequences Mental health problems in childhood and adolescence have negative consequences later in life. Researchers at the University of London (United Kingdom) began with this observation as […]

The US authorities have begun an exhaustive investigation to identify whether the new coronavirus (Covid-19) originated in a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province, or in a laboratory of the Asian giant. Officials from the US intelligence unit continue to collect information about one of the laboratories in the province mentioned to […]

The global toll from the Covid-19 coronavirus continues to rise. The situation in the United States is obviously the most worrying and has been for about two weeks. In France and other countries, containment appears to be having its first impact, but efforts will have to continue during the month of April. The situation in […]

The pandemic caused by the spread of the coronavirus worldwide has unleashed multiple investigations that seek to understand how it spread so quickly, its origin, among other things. One of those investigations, one of the most recent, points to the fact that in different frozen pangolin remains that were seized by the authorities between 2018 […]

At a press conference in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that the coronavirus is now a global pandemic. With the Covid-19 coronavirus now affecting 121,000 cases in nearly 115 countries, the WHO says the epidemic has reached the stage of a global pandemic. 90% of these cases are located in 4 […]