Types of belt buckles, originally belts were probably invented simply as a functional way to carry your sword! The fact is it pretty obvious that they were a practical and really useful item. Given their position on the body and the variety of materials they could be made from they quickly became an indicator of […]
Diving centre has a different way of saying goodbye it’s a case of ‘cheers dive!’ two Cardiff buses have been captured on film submerged in a quarry near Chepstow. But don’t worry, they haven’t veered wildly off course and ended up underwater in some bizarre accident, the two former members of the Cardiff Bus fleet […]
Blood Clots, after vaccination the vaccine instructs the body to produce spike proteins. It is the spike protein that the body reacts to and over a period of 14-21 days instructing it to produce antibodies that protect us from the coronavirus SARS Cov-2. Typically these spike proteins are produced in the liver. It takes a […]
Coronavirus variants of the original coronavirus causing Covid-19 are rising in number, SARS Cov-2 has caused concern following a study of blood samples from people who have recovered from the disease. It found that the antibodies generated by previous infection or as a result of vaccination were unable to ‘neutralise’ this particular variant in laboratory […]
Covid cure may have been discovered with Israel’s world-leading rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations, drugs to treat Covid people remain in desperate need across the world. Two such medications developed in Israel reveal fantastic promise in scientific trials: EXO-CD24 and Allocetra. EXO-CD24, a speculative is an inhaled medicine developed at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, was […]
Llanishen Reservoir Open is a newly-opened Cardiff beauty spot has had more than 100,000 visitors in just nine weeks. Lisvane and Llanishen Reservoirs opened to the public in July 2023 as a hub for health and wellbeing and a haven for wildlife and offers a range of water and land activities and a café. For […]
It has always been curious that the death rate from Covid-19 varies in different countries. Whilst the spread of the virus might be related to the measures applied by governments many have not been comfortable with an implied criticism of rates of death in those countries. Whilst medical treatments might differ slightly between countries and […]
Measles is one of the most contagious diseases we know. Just one person is likely to infect between 12 and 18 people. That number is called a disease’s “basic reproduction number,” or R0. Scientists use it to describe how contagious a disease is. Zika? It has an R0 of up to 6.6. Super contagious but the seasonal […]
Drug treatments have some more encouraging news. A bit technical, but the scale is encouraging: Bayer, Mylan and Teva (and others): generic chloroquine We start with the most talked-about drug, which has been around for 70 years and treats malaria: now generic chloroquine, which has been used increasingly in Asia and now in Europe to […]