The pressure on Germany's pension system is growing. In 2020, 21.8 million people received 341 billion euros (358.7 billion U.S. dollars) from the country's statutory, private, or company pension schemes, nearly 10 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
Full StorySome long-COVID symptoms are being caused by amyloid clumps in the brain that are similar to those found among sufferers of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
Full Story"Global challenge needs global efforts and global cooperation," a Chinese official said at WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12).
With the largest global store of frozen water after the Antarctic and Arctic, the Third Pole region, located in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is home to headwaters of over ten major Asian rivers.
The astronauts aim to transform the Tiangong space station from a single-module structure to a three-module laboratory.
When researchers measured the fall in creatinine levels, the rate of Acute Kidney Injury diagnosis in COVID-19 patients doubled.
The findings underscore the importance of vaccinating children and implementing other public health measures to prevent them from becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2, thus protecting both children and vulnerable members of their household from the virus.
As nearly 2,500 global leaders and the media are meeting in Davos, the World Wide Fund for Nature called on them to accelerate their action to tackle climate and nature crises.
UNAIDS warned Sunday that homophobic and racist overtones in some comments about monkeypox could "rapidly undermine the fight against the epidemic".