German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which developed a trailblazing Covid-19 vaccine, will trial a cancer treatment in Britain using the same mRNA technology, the company said on Friday.. The company has been developing mRNA-based cancer therapies since it was founded in 2008 and they have been trialled on several hundred people so far. fec/hmn/lth
Understaffed and underfunded clinics stand half-empty in parts of the Chinese countryside even as hospitals in major cities heave under an unprecedented Covid wave -- an illustration of the stark disparities in the country's healthcare system.. In one of the world's most unequal economies, China's centralised healthcare system drives money and resources towards urban hospitals at the expense of rural ones, a disparity that has become all the more intense as cases surge.
Understaffed and underfunded clinics stand half-empty in parts of the Chinese countryside even as hospitals in major cities heave under an unprecedented Covid wave -- an illustration of the stark disparities in the country's healthcare system.. In one of the world's most unequal economies, China's centralised healthcare system drives money and resources towards urban hospitals at the expense of rural ones, a disparity that has become all the more intense as cases surge.
It includes important long-forgotten Bible verses. It includes complete instructions on how to make anointing oils from the Bible using additional hidden substances not found in modern translations.
European regulators have laid down one of the biggest challenges so far to the multibillion-dollar business model of Facebook owner Meta, analysts said on Thursday.. "Meta and its investors should be ready: the privacy invasive targeted-ads business model is slowly but surely ending," Estelle Masse of NGO Access Now told AFP. "Privacy-friendly solutions will need to be found quickly or else their revenue could plummet."
Six women are attempting to paddle 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) across the Pacific Ocean to raise awareness about how sport can help cancer patients overcome emotional distress.. The expedition aims to raise funds for Hope Team East, an association that supports people suffering from or recovering from cancer through sport.
It is a gift fit for a king, or three: a gold coin slipped by a Belgian baker inside a traditional flaky Epiphany Three Kings cake baked to perfection.. Instead of the usual bean, Brussels baker Luc de Weerdt opted for the more luxurious prize of small round 18-carat gold coins, stamped with his bakery's logo.
Several winter sport events in France have been cancelled, postponed or moved because abnormally warm temperatures have stripped mountain slopes of their snow covering, organisers have said.. In the Pyrenees too, a lack of snow cover has thwarted winter plans.
With Asian visitors still largely absent, major Paris museums struggled to regain pre-pandemic numbers in 2022, despite a huge recovery from the previous year, official figures showed on Thursday. . The second half of the year saw stronger figures across the city thanks to blockbuster shows such as an Edvard Munch retrospective, which pulled in a record 600,000 people for the Orsay Museum, even if its overall numbers were down 10 percent on 2019.
Extinction Rebellion climate campaigners have announced a temporary halt to public disruption in the UK as they seek broader support, even as other activist groups vow to maintain radical tactics.. Other related groups expressed solidarity but vowed to keep up disruptive tactics.
