Celebrated Namibian NASA scientist Dr Japie van Zyl has died. He was 63.Van Zyl died from a heart attack at his home in California in the US on Monday. Stellenbosch University (SU) said in a statement the institution was deeply saddened by the death of Van Zyl, one of the world's leading space scientists."Van Zyl…
Salim Abdool Karim, is the government's main scientific advisor for Covid-19. She also sits on the board of experts tackling the pandemic there.The award was due to be presented in Paris next week, but the ceremony was cancelled because of the coronavirus.
May 27, 2020 | 9:12am | Updated May 27, 2020 | 9:34am Nikolai Petrovsky Flinders University The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. AFP via Getty Images Up Next You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from... The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is “almost perfectly human adapted” — lending credence to…
A leading scientist has called for lockdown rules to be loosened more quickly, saying the coronavirus pandemic has already infected half of Britain’s population and is “on its way out”.Prominent Oxford epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta told unherd.com that the UK had based its handling of the crisis on the worst-case scenario and called for a…
A top U.S. scientist behind groundbreaking research in cancer and HIV/AIDS is warning that a vaccine for the coronavirus may never be found, as the number of global COVID-19 infections surged past 5 million on Thursday.William Haseltine, who has also worked on human genome projects, said that while a COVID-19 vaccine could be developed, “I…
I was officially diagnosed with Lupus in May of 2021. I say officially because my symptoms started long before that, I just didn't know it. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation and pain in different parts of the body. Your immune system is meant to help your body fight infection. But
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Duodenal mucosal resurfacing (DMR) — an investigational endoscopic procedure — helped patients maintain weight loss, and in some cases, even lose additional weight, 3 months after discontinuing GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy, initial results of the open-label, multistage REMAIN-1 trial showed. In addition, “the procedure was well tolerated, with only minor, transient TEAEs [treatment-emergent adverse events]