For Mercy Ships, the dream was born long ago. What if we could design a new hospital ship and build a fleet to serve Africa? A new ship that could hold more patients, house more volunteer crewmembers, and deliver more medical training? What if we build a vessel that could provide even more hope and more […]
By Michael Greger, MD, FACLM Improving cognitive performance with aromatherapy in young, healthy volunteers is one thing, but how about where it really matters? As I discuss in my video Best Aromatherapy Herb for Alzheimer’s, a group of Japanese researchers had a pie-in-the-sky notion that certain smells could lead to ‘nerve rebirth in Alzheimer’s patients. […]
Panama Posse has begun gearing up for their fourth Central American sailing rally, which kicks-off Dec. 4. The Panama Posse Rally sails from California to Florida and back to California via Central American Pacific and Western Caribbean waters. The seven-month cruising season offers 4,500 nautical miles of 500 verified anchorages and 36 Marina sponsors. Countries […]
Cooperation with China could be a key factor to help make Panama a scientific “hub” for Latin America, said Jagannatha Rao, director of the Institute for Scientific Research and High Technology Services of Panama (INDICASAT-AIP). Panama’s position as a “hub” in the region could create connections with China, and that would turn the Central American […]
Newsroom Panama) As Panama cautiously moves to the ‘new normal with diners heading to their favorite restaurants and shoppers returning to the malls,Panama’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (CCIAP) calls on consumers to keep the ball rolling and country not to lower their guard against the pandemic. In the week of ‘Corporate Social […]
Cargo volumes through the Panama Canal grew by a less than expected 1% this year as the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on global trade, the Panama Canal said Monday. The Panama Canal Authority announced today it achieved 475.1 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS) in its 2020 fiscal year, which ran October 1, 2019 to […]
As a result of the changes made by the Assembly in Panama regarding the total payment of the resources placed on deposit in cases where the banks are in the process of liquidation, the Banking Association is asking for the construction of consensual public policies. The plenary session of the Assembly, after correcting the formulations […]
Cuban residents in Panama rejected the US ‘policy of economic suffocation’ against their motherland, during a national meeting held in the complex context the island and its community abroad are currently living. During the final declaration of the virtual meeting, the Marti’s Association of Cuban Residents in Panama (AMCRP) stated that this hostility is […]
After six months of restricted activity, as of September 28th the shopping centers and restaurants reopen their doors to the public. Due to the outbreak of covid-19, most commercial activities have been suspended since March of this year. Currently, in the context of economic recovery, the government has been relaxing restrictions and more and more sectors are beginning […]
The German pharmaceutical company CureVac announced that it has started Phase 2 clinical trials of its experimental vaccine against Covid-19, a study that will be carried out in Peru and Panama. A first participant was vaccinated applying the technology CureVac has specialized, based on messenger RNA molecules (mRNA) found in the human body, the Tübingen […]