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FILE PHOTO: A health worker stands in front of a woman who waits to receive a dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in Bergamo, Italy, March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Flavio Lo ScalzoROME (Reuters) – A series of new rules and the supply of new doses will boost Italy’s vaccination campaign, allowing the government to lift […]
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poles rushed to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday morning after the government unexpectedly opened registrations for people aged over 40 overnight, in a sudden shift that led to so many applications that an online system crashed.FILE PHOTO: A health worker in protective suit waits for people at a test center […]
People get treatment in the Wieliczka salt mine to deal with respiratory illness, in Wieliczka, Poland February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Tomasz Swierczek WIELICZKA, Poland (Reuters) – A UNESCO World Heritage site in Poland is being used to help people recover from COVID-19, with patients going deep underground in the Wieliczka salt mine to a therapeutic centre […]
FILE PHOTO: A test tube labelled “vaccine” in front of an AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken, September 9, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationWARSAW (Reuters) – The Polish health ministry will raise the upper age limit for people being given the AstraZeneca vaccine to 69, from 65 previously, a spokesman said on Friday. “Today the health minister’s […]
Damaged peripheral nerves can regenerate after an injury, for example, following a forearm fracture. Axons, the long projections of neurons that transmit stimuli or signals to other cells, are affected in the case of injury and need to regrow to recover their function. The research team led by Prof. Claire Jacob at Johannes Gutenberg University […]
When an outbreak strikes, speed is critical. Health workers must act quickly not only to contain and treat an emerging or re-emerging disease, but also to use this window to evaluate potential treatments and vaccines. And the challenge becomes even greater in sub-Saharan Africa when you’re trying to develop new approaches in the face of […]
The central nervous system of older individuals responds to movement and initiates muscular contraction differently compared to young individuals. This is the result of a study led by researcher Simon Walker at the University of Jyväskylä with Postdoctoral Researcher funding from the Academy of Finland. Walker’s team also found links between the ability to sense […]