13 APR 2023 The areas most affected by high systolic blood pressure (red) and areas are also affected but to a lesser extent (yellow). More than a billion adults around the world live with elevated blood pressure, a condition that puts individuals at risk of damaging a variety of organs, including the …
Read More »MEYER HIGHLIGHTS CRUISE INNOVATION AND SPECULATES ON CRUISING IN 2100
12 APR 2023 Executives from the cruise industry, its suppliers, and destinations wrapped up their conference in Florida discussing the future of the industry and the challenges that lay ahead. German shipbuilding group Meyer Werft also took the opportunity to speculate what a cruise ship in the next century might …
Read More »ANALYSTS SEE CONTINUED PROFIT DECLINES FOR SHIPPING IN 2023
11 APR 2023 As the investment community prepares for the start of earnings season with the first of the reports scheduled to be released as early as next week, speculation focuses on what the outlook is for the shipping industry’s financial results. There has been extensive focus on the dramatic …
Read More »SCIENTISTS CREATED A NEW RECYCLABLE PLASTIC NOT MADE FROM CRUDE OIL
10 APR 2023 The world is direly addicted to plastics. Try as we might to recycle them, plastics are cheaper to make anew, so unthinkable amounts of plastic waste are dumped into landfill and are clogging up our oceans. From all the new plastics ever made, over 6 billion metric tons of plastic waste (that …
Read More »SWEDEN BELIEVES NORD STREAM ATTACK WAS CARRIED OUT BY A NATION-STATE
09 APR 2023 Amidst all the mystery surrounding the attack on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline systems last year, one thing is clear: investigators are nearly sure that it was carried out by a state actor, according to a prosecutor leading Sweden’s team. Investigators in Denmark and Sweden have …
Read More »DEATH TOLL RISES IN OUTBREAK LINKED TO CONTAMINATED EYE DROPS
08 APR 2023 Weeks after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned health care providers to stop using a popular brand of eye drops in the wake of infections that led to one known death, an additional two people have reportedly lost their lives. As of March 14, 68 patients across 16 …
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