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By Leah Asmelash and Homero De la Fuente Up to 35 percent of Big Ten athletes who had Covid-19 now show signs of inflammation of the heart muscle, a top Penn State doctor says, reigniting the debate over the safety of playing sports during the pandemic. Wayne Sebastianelli, Penn State’s director of athletic medicine, revealed...
By Malcolm Kendrick The release of previously repressed studies shows that if you substitute saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, this increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. My fellow doctors need to accept the evidence. Whilst we are in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems that all other diseases have been relegated to a position...
With teachers, military personnel, medical interns and contractors protesting in the streets, the government said Wednesday it is prioritizing its finances to pay salaries and bills, some of which date back to May. “We recognize our obligations and are organizing our limited resources to make more timely payments,” said Finance Minister Richard Martínez. On Tuesday,...
Miércoles, 2/9/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – No hay nada. Otras cosas – Titular – Protestas y carencias al comenzar clases (Protests and absences when starting classes) – The school year in the Sierra and Oriente started yesterday with 288,438 students and about 18,000 teachers in Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago. It is estimated that...
By H.L. Mencken A dog is standing proof that most so-called human rights, at bottom, are worth nothing. A dog is proverbially devoid of any such rights and yet it lives well and happy. For one dog that is starved and mistreated, there are 10,000 that are coddled and overfed. How many human beings, even...
The economy will not return to pre-coronavirus levels for a “very long time,” the chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank warned Wednesday. Business activity in the Euro zone dropped sharply in the wake of the strict lockdown measures imposed in March, but have somewhat rebounded in recent months following the easing of certain restrictions. The...
A football player in Ecuador was fined $1,200 Monday for kissing the ball in breach of hygiene rules brought in to combat the coronavirus. Argentine midfielder Sergio Lopez, who plays for Quito-based Aucas in the country’s top-tier Liga Pro, became the first player to face sanction under the new rules, after making the offending gesture...
Attending an international conference in Germany on combating the Covid-19 virus, Ecuador Minister of Public Health Juan Carlos Zevallos warned Tuesday that no country will be able to overcome the pandemic on its own. He also voiced concerns about the availability and safety of a vaccine. “No country or no city will come out of...
Martes, 1/9/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Bicentenario article on “Los “Guanderos” – Without the indigenous guanderos, Cuenca would not have grown in the early 20th Century since there were no roads. These porters brought Viennese furniture, wrought iron for balconies and pianos de cola (grand pianos – your word...
Long concerned about Colombian guerillas in the border area of Esmeraldas Province, the Defense Ministry says it is now combating another incursion in the Amazonian Sucumbíos Province. In operations carried out since August 27, the army has captured weapons, firearms and other supplies near the communities of Puerto El Carmen and Lago Agrio. According to...
Scientists say that a Guayaquil man is the first person in South America to be infected twice with the Covid-19 virus. Researchers confirmed the reinfection following analysis of the man’s blood at the Institute of Microbiology at San Francisco de Quito University. “The patient tested positive in May with mild symptoms of the SARS-CoV-2. virus,...
Fast action by four people, three of them expats, saved the life of an elderly woman Monday afternoon following a gas explosion in her Edificio Otorongo apartment. Witnesses say William Wilson and another man who lived in the building rushed to the woman’s apartment following the explosion, finding her engulfed in flames. The men extinguished...
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