The coronavirus can damage the brain. Researchers at the Amsterdam UMC discovered this. Covid-19 in some cases causes the brain’s immune system to run wild. Pathologist Paul van der Valk and his team examined the brains of eleven corona patients who died. In ten of them, the disease had left clear traces in the brain … Read more
An evening of partying in the open air will not do much harm, a group of friends of twelve men must have thought. Eleven were subsequently found to be infected with the corona virus. The people in their twenties and thirties had gone to an outdoor festival in Nijmegen on 12 September to celebrate a … Read more
Most young people do not suffer much from corona infections. But some become critically ill, without having any weaknesses or illnesses before. It seems that those youngsters have genetic unlucky, say two studies in the Lancet. ‘It is no coincidence that someone who is healthy and who, in a manner of speaking, has only just … Read more
Babies born prematurely may have smaller brain sizes. A longer pregnancy, so between 37 and 42 weeks, leads to more brain development. This has been suspected for some time, but has now been proven by brain scientist Dr. Hanan El Marroun of Erasmus MC, who wrote about it in the journal JAMA on Tuesday. Marroun: … Read more
The coronavirus pandemic appears to be accelerating worldwide with a record number of new cases in a week. Last week, the number of infections rose to almost two million. The number of new deaths decreased, WHO statistics show. In a new global update, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that during the week ending September … Read more
MADRID (ANP / RTR) – Spain has registered 31,428 new corona infections since Friday. The Health Ministry confirmed on Monday that a total of 671,468 people in the country have now contracted the virus. More than 30,000 patients have succumbed to Covid-19. The Madrid region in particular has been hit hard by the second wave … Read more
NASA shared a particularly impressive snapshot of the planet Jupiter on Friday. Space telescope Hubble even captured the gas giant, which is at least 588 million kilometers from Earth, with one of its moons in the background. At the rear left of the spectacular photo, we see icy moon Europa, suspected of hiding a liquid … Read more
THE HAGUE (ANP) – The Dutch Association for a Voluntary End of Life (NVVE) calls it “completely unacceptable” that people with a psychiatric condition have to wait two years for the assessment of their euthanasia request. That is why she urges health minister Hugo de Jonge to “work together with mental health care on a … Read more
Shell wants to search for oil and gas again in the arctic region north of Alaska, the FD reveals. The plans are striking, because Shell decided in September 2015 after years of exploration and production stop oil drilling in the Arctic near Alaska. The company thought the revenues were too low. Shell increasingly talks about … Read more
It was known from the start of the corona crisis: autumn would be tough. And it will. The virus’s predicted summer dip was even shorter than expected and hoped for. In France and certainly Spain the figures are serious. Are they a harbinger of what awaits the Netherlands? In Spain, 162 people died of the … Read more