The anti-anxiety drug Xanax is among seven existing medicines identified by scientists as possibly being able to block coronavirus, a new study has revealed. Researches from universities in Barcelona have been searching for existing drugs that can help block the virus that has devastated the world. They have been looking ...

Individual respect for coronavirus containment measures and a return to economic life is the best way to strike a “balance between people’s health and their livelihoods,” Information Minister Manal Abdel-Samad said Tuesday. “We are still in a critical stage but we could not continue to close the country, as there ...

The best practices for controlling an infectious disease like COVID-19 aren’t easy to follow—keeping six feet apart from others, wearing face masks in public, and, if you’re a health care worker, wearing shields to protect your eyes as well. But in a study published Monday in The Lancet, researchers provide ...

The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that 9 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon. The ministry added that only 2 infections out of the 9 new cases were locally transmitted and the rest cases were recorded among the Lebanese returnees. LBCI

Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad Najd, received on Monday Secretary General of the Higher Relief Council, General Mohammad Kheir. The pair discussed the contracts that had been signed in the past with the ministry.

The Ministry of Public Health announced this Monday 13 new coronavirus infections, thus taking the toll to 1233 cases.

Analysis of more than 1,300 patients in French hospitals reveals age and BMI are among key factors   A new study of Covid-19 patients shows that of those with diabetes, 10 per cent die within seven days of hospital admission, and one in five require intubation and the use of ...

The project, called Sodar, can be accessed by anyone with an Android smartphone and the Google Chrome browser   Google has a new, experimental augmented reality project called “Sodar”, which creates a virtual six-feet or two-metre radius ring around you that’s visible on your phone. Augmented reality is when virtual ...

Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every day – have been told that they will be no longer be required ...

SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 ...