Special news from London. A patient has been cured of HIV after a stem cell transplant. It is the second time that a patient has recovered from the HIV virus. 11 years ago Timothy healed Ray Brown, then known as ‘the Berlin patient’. It was then expected that another such case would be nearly impossible. … Read more
State Secretary Blokhuis of Public Health does not rule out that he will oblige parents to vaccinate their babies in the future. He writes this in a letter to the Lower House today. “However, should the decline in vaccination coverage continue, endangering public health, I will have to consider more mandatory measures.” Blokhuis further writes … Read more
Smoking the electronic cigarette is the breakthrough of recent years. Tens of thousands of people have completely discarded the cigarette and exchanged it for ‘vaping’ or ‘vaping’. It would be much less harmful to you because you don’t inhale smoke. New research shows that may not be true at all. The research was done by … Read more
Microsoft is finally over. After years of insisting that users ‘safely remove’ their USB stick, the company has decided that this is no longer necessary. Do you recognize it too: have to manually click on your Windows computer that you want to remove your USB stick before you actually do that? That is now a … Read more
Major pharmaceutical companies have deliberately concealed the addictive effects of strong painkillers for years. This says the Canadian province of British Columbia, which is taking the companies to court. “They launched a huge advertising campaign to spread the belief that the drug has hardly any side effects,” says general practitioner Jos van Bemmel. Meanwhile, the … Read more
You probably know them: people who let the dog lick their face or even give them a kiss on their mouth. You better not do that. Because it’s not only dirty, it can even be deadly. The myth that nothing is as clean as a dog’s tongue is absolutely not true, says dog expert Marty … Read more
Presenter Eva Jinek, together with actress Jennifer Hoffman, sells bottles of natural vinegar for charity. Not just like that, because with that simple kitchen good you can detect cervical cancer. “It is a matter of dabbing the cervix with a cotton swab with a few drops of vinegar on top. If there are wrong cells, … Read more