Category: Feature Stories

Paracetamol pain helps. Australian researchers have found that paracetamol may be ineffective for many aches and pains. At the slightest hint of physical discomfort, many people swallow a painkiller – some even prophylactically. Whether this is healthy or not remains to be seen. An Australian study has looked into a different question: Does the popular painkiller paracetamol also work effectively? The result is clear: for many complaints, it is said to be hardly better than a placebo. Does paracetamol help with any kind of pain? A team from the University…

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If you’ve survived Corona, you’re far from healthy. Numerous study report severe long-term consequences of covid infection. And the list keeps getting longer! The largest study to date on long-term mental effects warns of a significantly higher risk for numerous mental and neurological disorders. Stroke, dementia, depression and psychosis – these are just some of the psychological and neurological diseases whose risk is significantly increased by covid infection. That’s what a British study has found, examining long-term consequences in Corona-Geneseen patients. About one-third were diagnosed with a neurological or psychological…

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The first vaccination dose alone does not protect against infection with the coronavirus: With the first dose, the effectiveness in the 28 days until the second dose is only three percent and thus in the range of the statistical margin of error, as a study of the University of Chile found. By contrast, two weeks after the second vaccination, efficacy was 56.5 percent. For their study, the researchers combined the efficacy of the Chinese vaccine Coronavac and Pfizer-Biontech’s vaccine. Coronavac is used in 93 percent of doses administered in Chile,…

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Going to the park with friends or having tea with relatives. Such private meeting could turn into zillions of Corona risks. Unless one has a negative test result.As if there is no temporal horizon, no hope, confidence, outlook, this is how many people privately treat their Corona risks. “Enough is enough” is the refrain of many private groups. Invitations are extended to dinners, family celebrations, visits to neighbors in the living room. It’s time to celebrate birthdays again, to sit together a bit, to resume the skat evening, to watch…

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“You only have time if you take it” – Karl Heinrich Waggerl The smartphone has become an indispensable companion for most of us. On average, we reach for our smartphone every few minutes. I have found recent studies ranging from 88 to 214 reaches to the smartphone per day. We also find this wide range of usage in our environment. Frequent users easily reach more than three hours of cell phone use per day. But why is the cell phone so appealing to us? Hardly any other medium can satisfy…

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Biontech and Pfizer’s vaccine also offers a high level of protection against Covid-19 and the more contagious viral variants, according to new data. Among 12,000 study participants who had been vaccinated up to six months ago, efficacy was about 91 percent, according to data released Thursday by the two vaccine partners. That’s slightly lower, however, than the 95 percent Biontech and Pfizer reported in November from the study of 44,000 participants. Since then, however, a number of Corona variants have spread worldwide. Experts fear that the new variants from South…

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More than twenty heads of state and government from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America have proposed drafting a new international treaty to prevent and combat future pandemics, according to a report. This should draw lessons from the mistakes made in dealing with Covid-19, according to Deutsche Press Agentur in an appeal published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. Signatories include Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, EU Council President Charles Michel, Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, South Korea’s President Moon Jae In and…

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The U.S. has been vaccinating people with Moderna and Pfizer/Biontech’s mRNA vaccines since December. Now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been able to confirm the high effectiveness of the vaccines. They reduce the risk of infection among healthcare workers and first responders by 90 percent 2 weeks after the second vaccination. The vaccines are thus highly effective, according to the CDC study. This confirms the results of a large-scale clinical trial prior to emergency approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Hopes of breaking the chain…

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Once again, the time will change in Austria (and in most parts of Europe). The clocks will be set forward one hour tonight – then daylight saving time will apply.In the night from Saturday (27. March) to Sunday (28. March), the clocks will be set one hour forward. The changeover to daylight saving time 2021* has been taking place in the EU since 1996 always on the last Sunday in March (changeover to daylight saving time) and on the last Sunday in October (changeover to winter time/normal time). But wasn’t…

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