Vaccines are the main line of defense against the coronavirus. Another is called medication. Drugs such as “Molnupiravir” from Merck and “Paxlovid” from Pfizer raise hopes. The company has just applied for marketing authorization from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for Paxlovid. The experts at the EMA would now assess the advantages and risks of … Read more
That’s one of the things about gravity: everything is pulled down. This also applies to our blood. To prevent it from building up in the legs, the veins pump the blood back towards the heart. However, this no longer works properly for people with varicose veins, says Dominic Mühlberger. The vascular surgeon at St. Josef … Read more
Almost a quarter (23 percent) of children over the age of ten from families with low school-leaving qualifications gained weight in the course of the corona pandemic: This is one of the results of a study that asked a good 1,000 families in Germany about their eating habits during the pandemic. – More fruit and … Read more
More than 30,000 years ago, the first were carved, shaped and carved: female statuettes, so-called Venus figurines. Small figures, hardly bigger than a hand, made of horn, mammoth ivory, stone or clay, standing sculptures or those that were worn as amulets. The hand-sized female figurines that were widespread throughout the ice-free zones of Europe during … Read more
Alcoholism: The longer the lockdown, the harder the heavy drinkers drink In a new study, researchers in the USA point to the connection between binge drinking – loosely translated as binge drinking – and the Covid-19 pandemic, especially countermeasures such as lockdowns. The pandemic and its aftermath apparently promoted existing personal crises and exacerbated them, … Read more