Day: May 15, 2025

Just 7,000 steps reduce cancer risk

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Physical activity can protect against cancer if you take around 7,000 steps a day. This resulted from a recent study involving around 85,000 British test subjects with a mean age of 63. Alaina Shreves from the US National Cancer Institute and her co-authors from the UK and Portugal analyzed people’s data from the UK Biobank. The analysis was based on physical activity in daily life, not sporting activity. The subjects were 85,394 people aged around 63 years. They all wore a device to measure their physical activity for one week…

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E-Card now almost twice as expensive

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While we still had to pay 13.80 euros for the e-card last year, the fee will rise to 25 euros this year. The reason for this is the government’s cost-cutting measures. Some Austrians probably don’t even know they are paying a fee. We are talking about the annual fee for the e-Card. This is due every year in mid-November and is deducted from the following year’s salary. In most cases, the Christmas bonus is also paid out with it, so the slight deviation—last year, the fee amounted to 13.80 euros—is…

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False Austrian Health Insurance (ÖGK) mail lures with 450 euro repayment!

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ÖGK warns of phishing mail: Fraudsters promise a 450-euro refund. Many policyholders are unsettled—tips to protect against data theft on the website. A “Heute” reader had recently submitted documents to the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK). She was waiting to hear back and expected a refund. When an email arrived shortly afterwards with the subject “Refund: 450.40 euros,” everything seemed logical to her: logo, transaction number, official tone of voice, and a button for payment—everything looked genuine. But the message was fake. The fake email seemed particularly credible because she…

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