Year: 2020

Antibiotics

Do SARS-CoV-2 mutations make the virus more infectious? Fears are not yet substantiated

There is no significant news on the topic of vaccines of concern to everyone, but I am sure they will appear soon. I decided to “fill the gap” with a post about the variability of SARS-CoV-2. The words “mutation”, “mutant”, not without the help of the media, have a terrifying effect on the general public. And “sensations” in […]

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Women Health

Maybe covid – dissidence is enough ?

Surprisingly, some people still continue to assert like butts that the requirement to wear masks is a worldwide conspiracy of evil oligarchs who simply want to achieve obedience . By the way, for some reason this is a very popular idea among various kinds of “dissidents” – supposedly there is some secret world power that wants to “achieve […]

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Antidepressants

Maybe covid – dissidence is enough ?

Surprisingly, some people still continue to assert like butts that the requirement to wear masks is a worldwide conspiracy of evil oligarchs who simply want to achieve obedience . By the way, for some reason this is a very popular idea among various kinds of “dissidents” – supposedly there is some secret world power that wants to “achieve […]

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Weight Loss

“The country does not need sick people” and what does Kennedy have to do with it

A few months ago, in my post “Outlaw: How Persons with Disabilities Turned Out to Be Disliked by the Authorities,” I condemned the decision to ban legal gender reassignment and also the ban on transgender adoption of children . The main point of that post was that a certain percentage of people are born with a genetic mutation, which […]

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Men's Health

The guy accidentally recorded the conversation of doctors during the operation, earned $ 500,000

Sometimes turning on the voice recorder is not only useful, but also profitable. Better yet, do it before anesthesia, after annoying the doctors. A resident of the State of Virginia for the verdict will receive a $ 500 000 due to the fact that he left the recorder is turned on, when the fell asleep under general anesthesia, and […]

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Women Health

To improve health, just two minutes of leisurely walking per hour is enough

Scientists from the University of Utah (Salt Lake City) conducted a study on a topic that is sore in every sense for modern people, and especially for IT specialists. They wanted to know how to rid the body of the negative effects of sedentary work. Researchers studied the health status of 3,626 people over several years (including tracking the death rate […]

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Women Health

Japanese scientists may have found a switch for human cell aging

Scientists at the University of Tsukuba have discovered that aging of human cells can be slowed down or even reversed. They identified two genes whose functioning is associated with aging mechanisms. The cells of our body receive energy from the mitochondria living inside the organelles . Apparently, at the dawn of evolution, anaerobic cells, unable to assimilate oxygen, united in symbiotic cooperation with […]

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Men's Health

21st Century Gentlemen’s Pack: How to Stand Up for Yourself

Hello giktimes! We live in a very interesting, but at the same time very hectic time – dangers can lie in wait literally on every corner, and even those who do not attract attention to themselves. Walk around with a traumatic pistol, ax, or baseball bat all the time? Perhaps this will somehow help in overcoming some dark […]

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Neuropathic pain

Modification of human genes is almost a reality

MIT Technology Review editor-in-chief Antonio Regalado spoke with Harvard Medical School staff who specialize in the development of genetic modification techniques. The main conclusion to which he came is this: interference with human DNA is more a matter of ethics than a scientific problem. What interventions are permissible and what can they lead to? Is society ready for the fact […]

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Antidepressants

How to deal with jetlag

Jet lag (jet lag) is called jet lag syndrome. Almost all travelers encounter it to one degree or another. When we travel by plane, then, having arrived in a country whose time zone is significantly different from our “native”, we find ourselves in a state of desynchronization. For example, we are overcome by sleep and fatigue, because it […]

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