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“Remove” taboos and encourage check-ups, essential to combat prostate cancer

“Remove” taboos and encourage check-ups, essential to combat prostate cancer “Remove” taboos and encourage check-ups, essential to combat prostate cancer

“Withdraw” taboos and encouraging check-ups are two key points to combat the prostate canceras explained by Dr. Camilo Moreno, medical director of Astellas Farma LATAM, in an interview with EFE. In Mexico, 25,000 cases of this type of cancer are detected each year, the second most common in men worldwide, and more than 7,500 deaths […]

20% of Mexicans die from lack of medical care or medicine, according to experts

20% of Mexicans die from lack of medical care or medicine, according to experts 20% of Mexicans die from lack of medical care or medicine, according to experts

The shortage of medicines in Mexico has resulted in at least 20% of the people who died in the country in 2022 because they did not receive medical attention or did not find the necessary drugs, researchers estimated this Monday based on an analysis of official statistics. “Unfortunately in Mexico, of the people who die […]

How does climate change affect health?

How does climate change affect health? How does climate change affect health?

He climate change It is a multiple and growing threat to the health human, to the point that COP28which begins on Thursday, will dedicate a day to this topic for the first time. “To avoid catastrophic health effects and prevent millions of deaths”it is necessary to limit the average increase in temperature on Earth to […]

They manage to restore smell to a small group of patients with persistent covid

They manage to restore smell to a small group of patients with persistent covid They manage to restore smell to a small group of patients with persistent covid

A team of researchers has managed to restore the sense of meaning for the first time. smell to a small group of patients with covid persistent, through a procedure “minimally invasive” of ten minutes guided by image. The new method, which involves an injection, will be presented next week at the annual meeting of the […]

New test to detect uterine cancer reduces most false positives

New test to detect uterine cancer reduces most false positives New test to detect uterine cancer reduces most false positives

A new, simple test detects uterine cancer without having to perform 90% of the surgical processes that are now used to diagnose it, in addition to reducing false positives, maintains a study by Austrian researchers. “With this easy-to-perform test, many women with suspected uterine cancer could avoid very stressful hysteroscopies and biopsies in the future”says […]

OECD: The US is the country that spends the most on health, but with mediocre results

OECD: The US is the country that spends the most on health, but with mediocre results OECD: The US is the country that spends the most on health, but with mediocre results

USA is, by far, the country of OECD that spends the most on health but with very mediocre results in the indicators on the health status of the population and a Life expectancy which, after being stagnant for a decade, suffered a serious downturn due to covid. In its comparative report on health systems published […]

WHO: population with tuberculosis reduced to about 3 million in 2022

WHO: population with tuberculosis reduced to about 3 million in 2022 WHO: population with tuberculosis reduced to about 3 million in 2022

The global fight against tuberculosisseverely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, is beginning to recover but remains far from its goal, according to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO). During the first two years of the pandemic, there were around four million tuberculosis patients “disappeared” per year, that is, people who developed the disease […]

USA: More packets of pureed food for children recalled due to lead poisoning

USA: More packets of pureed food for children recalled due to lead poisoning USA: More packets of pureed food for children recalled due to lead poisoning

The authorities of health of USA expanded an investigation into packages of applesauce and cinnamon that could be contaminated with lead and are promoted for consumption by children, amid reports of more poisonings and additional product recalls. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday that it received reports of seven cases of poisoning […]

Colombia begins to tax sugary drinks and ultra-processed foods

Colombia begins to tax sugary drinks and ultra-processed foods Colombia begins to tax sugary drinks and ultra-processed foods

Sweet drinks and ultra-processed foods They will be more expensive starting this Wednesday in Colombia with the entry into force of a tax that seeks to reduce the obesity in a country with a strong sugar industry. The tax, approved by Congress at the end of 2022 and ratified by the Constitutional Court in October […]

Belgium seizes fake weight loss drugs containing insulin

Belgium seizes fake weight loss drugs containing insulin Belgium seizes fake weight loss drugs containing insulin

The drug regulatory body Belgium declared that it had seized counterfeit versions of semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy, the popular anti-diarrhoea obesity of Nordiskwhich contained insulin. The Federal Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency told Reuters it had this year detained nine packages of GLP-1 drugs, the class of drugs that includes Wegovy and Novo’s […]

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