As the doctor notes, 80 percent of patients with pancreatic cancer have aggressive adenocarcinoma. The five-year survival rate is only 5-10 percent. “In some cases, the symptoms of pancreatic cancer can be cleverly disguised as other diseases, so a person does not attach any importance to them for a long time,” she noted. Vasilyeva drew … Read more
Unlike the previous bill, which passed last month and failed to clear the Senate, this one has a better chance of passage because it was approved by the lower house of the US Congress as part of a larger package that also includes military aid bills for Ukraine. Israel and Taiwan, and the confiscation of … Read more
Currently, the law establishes that Teacher’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in October. The commission decided to submit the bill for final reading in the Seimas this week. At the commission meeting, the chairman of the Latvian Union of Education and Science Workers (LPRON), Inga Vanaga, along with support for these amendments, called … Read more
In total, road restoration is planned in 19 places, and the total cost of the projects is estimated at approximately 10.3 million euros. To implement the planned work, the municipality plans to borrow 8.7 million euros from the State Treasury. Restoration of the road surface is planned on Karl Milenbach Street from Lastadijas Street to … Read more
The Lithuanian Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense (NSDC) on Wednesday approved a provision according to which Russians and Belarusians traveling to Russia and Belarus more than once every three months will lose their temporary residence permit in Lithuania, reports LRT. Five committee members were in favor of this provision, two were against it … Read more
According to the Latvian Language Agency, in 2023, 3,045 teachers, including 1,216 preschool teachers, took advantage of support measures to switch to teaching in the state language, writes LETA. 1002 primary and secondary school teachers improved their professional competence. Teachers mostly chose to participate in two- to three-hour consultation webinars and 12-hour programs on working … Read more
Experts analyzed data from 429 people aged 18 to 70 years. Respondents reported how old they felt, how often they didn’t get enough sleep in the past month, and how sleepy they were. It turned out that every night of poor sleep made people feel 0.23 years older. The researchers also conducted an experiment with … Read more
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have documented brain growth in humans throughout the 20th century. According to the results of scientific work, published in the journal JAMA Neurology, people born in the 1970s had 6.6 percent more brain volume and nearly 15 percent more brain surface area than those born in the 1930s. … Read more