This Is Beirut 2024-07-28 12:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A fire raging out of control in northern California has rapidly become among the biggest ever in the western US state, authorities said Saturday. The so-called Park Fire burned more than 350,000 acres (142,000 hectares) as of Saturday evening, making it the seventh-largest ever recorded in California history, the state agency Cal Fire said. The ...
Khalil Sehnaoui 2024-07-25 12:05 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Last Friday morning, the world was hit by one of the most significant IT blackouts in history. Thousands of Windows machines failed to boot up or reboot, disrupting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, healthcare companies, major retailers, and numerous other businesses globally. While the cause of the outage is known and efforts to restore ...
2024-07-25 11:56 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A two-week-old baby weighing 1.3 kg has been saved from severe complications related to a heart condition. This new medical achievement at Hôtel-Dieu de France (HDF) brings hope amid the current tide of tragic news. What makes this intervention so unique? What factors contributed to its success? Professor Zakhia Saliba, a pediatric ...
Alain E. Andrea 2024-07-23 12:11 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A recent clinical study has shown that gene therapy can restore hearing function, allowing five children with congenital bilateral deafness caused by genetic mutations to regain their ability to hear. DNA, RNA, molecular biology, genetic manipulation, and more recently gene therapy: so many words are coming to the forefront, and drawing a lot of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-22 12:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Decisions political leaders take this year will be decisive whether a target to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 can be reached, the United Nations said on Monday. Figures from 2023 show a global improvement in the number of new infections, the treatment of HIV-positive patients and a fall in the number of fatalities, but UNAIDS warned ...
Alain E. Andrea 2024-07-14 11:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A recent study indicates that smoking significantly reduces life expectancy. However, it emphasizes that quitting this habit at any age can greatly improve life expectancy. “Smoking kills.” Despite this clear warning on cigarette packs, many people continue to smoke. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) report on the global ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-10 13:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully blasted off for the first time on Tuesday, releasing satellites into orbit and restoring the continent's independent access to space. European space efforts have suffered a series of blows, including four years of delays to Ariane 6, that have robbed the continent of its own way to launch missions into ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-01 18:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Troubled aerospace giant Boeing has again had to postpone the launch of its first crew to the International Space Station aboard a Starliner spacecraft on Saturday, after the latest attempt was cancelled just hours before liftoff. Liftoff of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft was canceled on Saturday with less than four minutes to go, due to a ...
Alain E. Andrea 2024-05-27 21:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The precarious sanitary conditions in which Syrian migrants live in Lebanon have contributed over the past decade to the re-emergence and exacerbation of certain epidemics. With no effective solutions in sight, Lebanon is nearing a breaking point. The recent outbreak of several infectious diseases in Syrian migrant camps in Lebanon, including ...
Alain E. Andrea 2024-05-17 17:08 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The discovery of new genomic regions related to blood pressure offers crucial insights for understanding and treating hypertension. May 17 is International Hypertension Day and on this occasion, This is Beirut provides an update on the latest developments. Arterial hypertension (AHT) is a major worldwide public health issue. Without early ...
Alain E. Andrea 2024-05-14 22:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
AstraZeneca has announced the withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to “decreasing demand.” However, given the events that have taken place since 2021, one can tend to believe that this move could be dictated by other factors. One year after the global health emergency linked to the Covid-19 pandemic was lifted, controversies ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-11 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A powerful solar storm struck Earth on Friday, producing brilliant auroras visible from many regions while also raising concerns about potential disruptions to satellites, power grids, and other infrastructure due to fluctuating magnetic fields. The most powerful solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth on Friday, triggering spectacular ...