There are 6,823 corona patients in Belgian hospitals. Enough to be able to make a good estimate of the average clinical picture and the characteristics of the sick. What is striking: the admitted patients are less ill, but often too fat. About that writes Het Laatste Nieuws. People get sick less. “Compared to the first … Read more
It is definitely not something you see every day. It is therefore not surprising that the Dutch took pictures of the halo around the moon en masse last night. The luminous circle could be seen beautifully in the night sky. “Our inbox is completely full,” says meteorologist Brian Verhoeven of Buienradar to RTL Nieuws. “The … Read more
The corona vaccine should already be on the market, says Dutch doctor and professor Marcel Levi, head of seven hospitals in London. According to him, the vaccine is safe enough to be used on a large scale. “The alternative is much worse,” he explains to AD.nl. “You take a certain risk by already releasing a … Read more
Five percent of the vote is more than the difference that US presidential election candidates usually use to win Florida. For decades, the 29 electors have been awarded the winner here with significantly smaller intervals; most recently in 2016 with less than one percent. Which explains why Donald Trump has targeted the 650,000 or so … Read more
The lives of men with metastatic prostate cancer can be extended by two to three years by determining which drug is most effective on the basis of DNA research. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Normally, patients receive radiation or chemotherapy. But the tailored approach through DNA analysis improves the outlook significantly. … Read more
The contamination figures for our southern neighbors are dramatic. The hospitals are in danger of being inundated with corona patients and up to 40 percent of the tests administered are positive. According to professor of biostatistics Geert Molenberghs (UHasselt) there is nothing else for it than a complete lockdown. In Belgium, an average of more … Read more
Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU / e), together with colleagues from other institutes from the Netherlands and abroad, have developed a new form of immunotherapy, which they believe can lead to better treatment of cancer and other diseases in a few years’ time. The TU / e speaks of “pioneering research”. Amsterdam UMC, … Read more
Not in the catering industry, not even in theaters or cinemas and not even in schools: most infections take place in the workplace. At least it shows from a study of Medicine for the People, about which The last news writes. Small side note: the study took place in Belgium, but there is little reason … Read more
The coronavirus that has gripped Europe is a more aggressive variant of the virus that passed from animals to humans in Wuhan at the end of last year. It could even explain why China got the epidemic under control so much more easily, writes De Volkskrant. The corona virus roughly consists of the G and … Read more
As the coronavirus takes its toll again, we are pinning all our hopes on a vaccine “ that might be there before the end of the year. ” Kate Bingham, head of the UK Vaccine Task Force, is tempering expectations. “We don’t know if there will ever be an effective vaccine,” she writes in The … Read more