Japanese dentists pay more for dental crown ingredient palladium due to economic sanctions on Russia

Mar 20, 2022 23:40 pm UTC| Economy Business Health

Japanese dentists are now paying far more for palladium, a rare earth metal that is an essential ingredient for making dental crowns, due to economic sanctions imposed against Russia due to its Ukraine invasion. Russia...

S. Korea makes illness due to workplace harassment eligible for compensation

Mar 16, 2022 23:39 pm UTC| Law Economy Health

South Korea will make sickness and death caused by workplace harassment eligible for compensation under the Accident Compensation Act for Public Servants. According to the Ministry of Personnel Management, the revision...

Australian court overturns landmark climate ruling

Mar 16, 2022 22:53 pm UTC| Law Economy Health Nature

The Australian federal court threw out a landmark legal ruling that the countrys environment minister had a duty to protect children from climate change, which was a potential legal weapon to fight fossil fuel...

Number of vegans minimal in S. Korea: Survey

Mar 15, 2022 23:50 pm UTC| Health Economy

South Koreas proportion of hard-core vegetarians has turned out to be a minimal 7.6 percent, with 92.4 percent being non-vegetarians, according to a survey by the Korea Agro-Fisheries Food Trade Corp. on 5,510 adult...

New diagnostic method detects Parkinson’s Disease through manner of walking

Mar 14, 2022 23:50 pm UTC| Health Science Economy

A new diagnostic method that ascertains if a person is suffering from Parkinsons disease or dementia by looking at the manner of walking has been patented. A new diagnostic technique developed by a St. Marys Hospital...

Why daylight saving time is unhealthy - a neurologist explains

Mar 12, 2022 11:16 am UTC| Health

As people in the U.S. prepare to turn their clocks ahead one hour in mid-March, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of media stories about the disruptions to daily routines caused by switching from standard time to...

COVID pandemic 2nd anniversary: 3 things we got wrong, and 3 things to watch out for

Mar 12, 2022 10:42 am UTC| Health

Exactly two years ago, on March 11 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This was two months after there were reports of a mystery virus infecting people in Wuhan, the most...