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Jul52020 by adminNo Comments

Coronavirus: NHS England launches tool to aid long-term recovery

Health

NHS England is launching a new service for people with ongoing health problems after having coronavirus.The government says "tens of thousands" of people have long-term symptoms after catching Covid-19."Your Covid Recovery" will be an online portal for people in England to access tutorials, contact healthcare workers and track their progress.The project will be rolled out in two phases, with the web portal launching later this month.It will only be accessible via a personal log-in and will be available to virus patients who had to be treated in hospital, as well as to those who managed their illness at home.Later in the summer, tailored rehabilitation will also be offered to those who qualify, following an assessment.Each programme will last a maximum of ...

Mar272020 by adminNo Comments

North Macedonia joins NATO, adopts alliance’s COVID-19 response tool

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March 27 (UPI) -- North Macedonia became the newest member of NATO Friday. "North Macedonia is now part of the NATO family, a family of thirty nations and almost one billion people. A family based on the certainty that, no matter what challenges we face, we are all stronger and safer together," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper welcomed the country to the alliance via Twitter. Welcome to North Macedonia as the 30th Member of the #NATO Alliance. Its shared sacrifice in combat and commitment to NATO as a partner over the years has been resolute. We are proud to officially call them a @NATO Ally today. #WeAreNATO— Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper (@EsperDoD) March 27, 2020 On Tuesday, North Macedonia began the formal applicat...

Dec252019 by adminNo Comments

Popular app ToTok a government spy tool: Report

Technology

The New York Times says a chat app called ToTok is a spying tool used by the government of United Arab Emirates to track users' conversations, locations, images and other dataByThe Associated PressDecember 23, 2019, 8:30 PM3 min readNEW YORK -- A chat app that quickly became popular in the United Arab Emirates for communicating with friends and family is actually a spying tool used by the government to track its users, according to a newspaper report. The government uses ToTok to track conversations, locations, images and other data of those who install the app on their phones, The New York Times reported, citing U.S. officials familiar with a classified intelligence assessment and the newspaper's own investigation. The Emirates has long blocked Apple’s FaceTime, Facebook's WhatsApp and o...

Nov152019 by adminNo Comments

Watch live: Astronauts begin series of complex spacewalks to repair ISS tool

Science

Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Friday's early morning spacewalk will be the first in a series of challenging spacewalks. NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano are scheduled to begin their spacewalk at just after 7 a.m. ET on Friday. The duo will begin work to repair the International Space Station's cosmic particle detector. The efforts of Morgan and Parmitano will be broadcast live on NASA TV, with coverage beginning at 5:30 a.m. "These spacewalks are considered the most complex of their kind since the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions, which took place between 1993 and 2009," NASA reported last week. On Thursday, in anticipation of the spacewalk, Morgan and Parmitano readied the Quest airlock, the module where astronauts keep their spacesuits and en...

Oct152019 by adminNo Comments

Genetic engineering tool promises to aid discovery of new drugs inside microbes

Health

Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Scientists have found a new way to coax microbes into producing valuable secondary metabolites, chemical compounds that help microbes adapt to changing conditions. Despite the contributions secondary metabolites have made to medical and material science, researchers suspect they have only barely skimmed the surface of the biochemical secrets hiding within microbes -- a tool called chassis-independent recombinase-assisted genome engineering, or CRAGE, may help them unlock those secrets. Secondary metabolites are named so because they're non-essential. Stop a microbe from producing its primary metabolites and it is likely to die. Lock the production of secondary metabolites, however, and the microbe is sure to persist, even if at a disadvantage. But while secondary metabol...