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Un studiu recent arată că gadgeturile purtabile pot detecta semnele timpurii ale COVID-19 și ale afecțiunilor cardiace înainte de apariția simptomelor. Cercetătorii au descoperit că datele colectate de aceste dispozitive inteligente ar putea ajuta la identificarea modificărilor subtile din organism.

Un studiu privind efectele Covid-19 asupra pacienților care au avut o formă severă a bolii indică o îmbătrânire a creierului.

Angrenate în lupta anti COVID-19, Universitatea Griffith, Australia în colaborare cu Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL) au dezvoltat un vaccin de tip booster, cu administrare intranazală, fără ac.

Șeful Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, susține că guvernul SUA a pus presiune pe compania sa să cenzureze postările despre Covid-19 pe Facebook și Instagram în timpul pandemiei.

Tânărul înotător Adam Peaty a fost testat pozitiv la Covid-19 luni, 29 iulie, conform staff-ului naționalei olimpice, la o zi după ce a obținut medalia de argint în finala de la 100 m bras de la Jocurile Olimpice 2024 de la Paris

La nivel global, în ultima vreme, s-a înregistrat o creștere a numărului de cazuri de COVID-19. În țara noastră, săptămâna trecută s-au îmbolnăvit cu peste 80% mai mulți oameni decât în săptămâna precedentă și au fost raportate 5 decese. COVID-19 nu urmează tiparele sezoniere normale.

Un tribunal britanic a pronunţat marţi o decizie mixtă în litigiul care le opune pe compania americană Moderna şi alianţa Pfizer-BioNTech privind brevetele pentru tehnologia ARN mesager utilizată la fabricarea vaccinurilor lor anti-COVID-19, informează AFP.

Lady Gaga a anunțat că își amână concertul „Chromatica Ball” din cauza pandemiei de COVID-19. Concertul, care trebuia să aibă loc pe 27 mai la Stadionul SoFi din Inglewood, California, a fost reprogramat pentru 25 septembrie 2024.

Aproape 40% dintre europeni consideră că Uniunea Europeană s-a descurcat bine în lupta împotriva COVID-19, arată un sondaj Ipsos realizat în 18 țări, la comanda Euronews. Însă, românii sunt printre cei mai nemulțumiți de răspunsul UE.

Tribunalul Timiş a hotărât, joi, achitarea medicului Virgil Musta, şef al Secţiei Infecţioase a Spitalului de Boli Infecţioase şi Pneumoftiziologie "Victor Babeş" din Timişoara, în dosarul "teste COVID-19", în care a fost acuzat de procurorii DNA de instigare la abuz în serviciu.

Statul român a fost dat în judecată pentru nerespectarea contractului semnat pentru achiziția de vaccinuri împotriva Covid-19 de companiile Pfizer și BioNTech. În replică, guvernanții spun că nu au plătit pentru că nu au primit dozele.

The global health wearables market, already big, is expanding fast, as 320 million health and wellness devices dedicated to consumer market will be sold worldwide in 2022 and that figure could reach 440 million units by 2024, according to Deloitte 2022 TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) Predictions. Smartwatches are seeing rapid consumer adoption, as people use them not only to monitor steps by day (59%), workouts/athletic performance (42%) and heart health (37%), but also possible COVID-19 symptoms (11%), through functionalities such as alerts in case of low peripheral oxygen saturation - a life-threatening symptom that is hard for people to detect unassisted.

The Covid-19 outbreak has increased the importance of tracking mobility of individuals. A global research network has showcased how tracking and documenting movement of people can be of significant help to the government agencies during the pandemic. Maintaining such a database can help contain the spread of Covid-19 by offering clues to the potential hotspots, […]

More than half of companies worldwide (58%) expect an increase in taxation in their organization’s country of residence, as a result of the effects produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, and 90% estimate more tax disputes due to the growing government deficits recorded in this context, according to the Deloitte 2021 Global Tax Survey: Beyond BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting). Almost half (45%) of respondents expect more rigorous tax controls in their parent’s jurisdiction as a result of the pandemic, and 65% say that the tax authorities of those countries are increasing the use of data gathering and data analytics tools.

TeleDoc, one of the largest telemedicine providers in Eastern Europe, aims to get involved in the struggle against COVID-19 and provides 5.000 subscriptions, each valid for one week, so that Romanian patients can easily get in touch with a doctor. In case of need, the doctors from myTeleDoc app can address most of the common […]

Despite the turmoil brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, family-owned enterprises have managed to stay resilient. The world’s largest 500 family businesses generated US$7.28t in revenues, employing 24.1m people across 45 jurisdictions. These and other findings were published today in the 2021 EY and University of St. Gallen Family Business Index which reveals how the […]

Some 70% of Romanian technology startups were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the average revenues of this type of business reach EUR150,000 countrywide, with a seniority below four years, per the survey “Impact of COVID19 on Tech Startups in Romania” initiated by the Romanian Tech Startups Association (ROTSA), in partnership with over 130 players in the national startup ecosystem.

FREE NOW, European leader in multimodal mobility services, expands the unique vaccination support initiative in Romania and continues to offer free rides to all passengers traveling in March through the FREE NOW taxi and ridesharing app to get immunized against Covid-19. The initiative launched by the FREE NOW group in February, with a total investment […]

COVID-19 has increased labour market inequalities between women and men, with more women losing or giving up their jobs during the pandemic, according to the PwC Women in Work Index  report, which measures female economic empowerment across Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.   Progress for women in work could be back at […]

REGINA MARIA Healthcare Network initiates the first study to evaluate the body’s immune response to vaccination against COVID-19. At the beginning of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved vaccines that have proven their efficacy and safety against COVID-19. The vaccination campaign has started successfully in Romania as well. The next step is to […]