Eye care: Declining Eyesight Could Be Given a Boost by Short Morning Doses of Seeing Red - By DAVID NIELD

A short burst of red light in the morning has been shown to improve declining eyesight, researchers report, potentially providing a simple, safe, and easy-to-use treatment for keeping our eyes sharper as we head into old age.

In tests on 20 participants exposed to three minutes of 670 nanometer deep red light in the morning between 8 am and 9 am eyesight improved by 17 percent and lasted (at a lower level) a week on average. In some of the volunteers, the improvement was as much as 20 percent.

This link between long wavelength red light and improving vision matches up with what scientists have seen in previous studies on animals, and the study follows on from a similar one carried out last year – but in this case, the red light was limited to a single, daily exposure that required less red light energy than previously.

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Spain's job market: Labor market sets positive records in September, but employment still far from pre-pandemic levels

Despite the covid-19pandemic 15-million-spaniards-are-either-jobless-or-furloughed-due-to-coronavirus.html" target="_blank">devastating effect
that the coronavirus pandemic has had on the Spanish economy, September
was a record month for the labor market. Registered unemployment fell
by 26,329 people, which is the highest figure since at least 1996, when
the current statistical series began. Employment also grew, with 84,013 new registrations with the Social Security system,
also the highest figure for the month of September. This was partly due
to new hirings of teachers – more staff are being drafted in across the
country so that schools can cope with coronavirus measures – as well as
of agricultural workers. The total number of workers signed up with
Social Security reached 18,876,389 last month.

China-US relations: What the world could use now: a reset between the U.S. and China

The U.S. has reached a critical inflection point in its relationship with China, made all the more urgent because of COVID-19.

The coronavirus disease and its resulting pandemic is an unfolding story, presenting new challenges each day, yet several lessons have emerged from it already.

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Spanish Economy: Summer tourism helps Spain’s economy grow more than other eurozone countries

Summer tourism helped Spain’s economy grow faster than most others in the eurozone in the third quarter.

Figures from Spain’s National Statistics Office (INE) showed that output expanded by 0.8 percent between July and September, as household spending recovered from the doldrums.

The effects of the recession still hit many Spaniards hard – a major challenge for the centre-right government ahead of next month’s elections.

“I keep saying that we’re coming out of the recession. We’ve seen two and a half years of positive growth. But we still haven’t reached, in terms of income, the levels we had before the crisis. We’ll get there, if we maintain this pace of growth, at the end of next year,” said Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos.

Falling unemployment has helped boost spending – but more than 20 percent are still out of work.
Labour reforms are credited with having stemmed job losses – but critics say they’ve failed to tackle employers’ abuses of short-term contracts. Economists also say the gap between Spain’s highest earners and its poorest is on the rise.

Tourism accounts for around 11 percent of Spain’s output. A record year for foreign visitors brought a rise in the number of jobs in hotels, restaurants and other parts of the service sector.

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