Politics – EuroTimes

Details of the state of the Norwegian king

John B. Rowlands — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 01:08:29 +0000

Norway’s King Harald will stay a few more days in a hospital on the Malaysian island of Langkawi for treatment and rest before returning to Norway, the royal family said, as quoted by Reuters. The 87-year-old monarch was on holiday in the Southeast Asian country, but it was revealed earlier this week that he had […]

Putin‘s personal gerontologist, who worked to extend life to 120 years, has died

John B. Rowlands — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 04:56:33 +0000

Vladimir Havinson, one of the most famous Russian gerontologists, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and founder of the Institute of Gerontology, died at the age of 77, The Moscow Times reports. Havinson has been called “Putin’s personal gerontologist” in the press and has spent decades researching the aging process and ways to extend […]

Sex reassignment surgeries banned in Russia

John B. Rowlands — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 00:00:51 +0000

The lower house of the Russian parliament – the State Duma – adopted on 14.07.2023 in the third, final reading a bill that would prohibit the performance of sex-change operations, reported Reuters. The bill prohibits doctors from “performing a medical intervention intended to change human sex” and from prescribing hormone therapy to patients. An exception […]

Life and Drugs, Part 1, An Overview

John B. Rowlands — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:08:18 +0000

Drugs // “It is better and more useful to meet a problem in time than to seek a remedy after the damage is done” explains a Latin saying of the mid-13th Century. According to the Council of the European Union (Review August 2022): Drugs are a complex social and health phenomenon that affects millions of […]