The European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, highlighted this Wednesday on World Health Day Rare Diseases the need to work jointly between all the countries of the European Union (EU) to guarantee care for patients suffering from these pathologies, which affect more than 36 million throughout the EU. In her statement, the Health Commissioner stated […]
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They decipher the connections between ALS and dementia that presents behavioral problems
Research led by the Spanish Sant Pau Research Institute deciphered the brain connections between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia, characterized by cognitive and behavioral problems. The research was carried out by a group of scientists from various hospitals and research centers in Catalonia (northeast of Spain), led by doctors Álvaro Carbayo and Ricard […]
UK bans single-use vapes
The British Government has decided to ban vapers single-use devices with the aim of eradicating addiction to these devices among British youth and protecting the health of minors. The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, will formalize the veto in a visit to a school this Monday, the British Government said in a statement. This decision […]
WHO launches guide for ethical use of artificial intelligence in health
The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a guide with new ethical guidelines to promote and guarantee safe use in the healthcare field of large language models (LMM), a type of artificial intelligence (AI) generative in rapid development. Capable of generating texts and other predictive content from massive data processing, LMMs, like the controversial tool […]
Health spending in the OECD will rise to 11.8% of GDP in 2040 with lesson from covid
The weight of health spending in the countries of the OECD will continue to grow, as has been the case for decades and, if we add to this trend the lessons of the crisis of the covid To make the system more resistant, it will reach 11.2% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2040. […]
Medicine shortage in Venezuela was 26.2% in November, according to NGO
The scarcity of medicines to treat six high-incidence morbidities in Venezuela was 26.2% in November 2023, according to a bulletin released this Sunday by the NGO Convite, which monitors the availability and access to these drugs in Caracas and 16 other cities throughout the country. “November 2023 closes with a general indicator of 26.2% of […]
A new antibiotic is promising, in mice, against a multiresistant bacteria
The development of a new type of drug against a bacterial species resistant to several classes of antibiotics existing ones has given promising results in trials with mice and is now being tested in humans, as published today by Nature. Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) – a family of broad-spectrum antibiotics – is classified as a […]
Pollution clouds the sky over Dubai, where COP28 is being held
The horizon of Dubai was obscured on Sunday by a polluting layer described as “unhealthy”the same day in which the conference of the climate of the UN (COP28) celebrated a day dedicated to health. The particle concentration index reached 155 micrograms per m3, according to WAQI.info, a local website that serves to stay informed in […]
China reaffirms that respiratory outbreaks are due to known pathogens
The health authorities of China reaffirmed, based on recent data obtained from case monitoring, that the high incidence of respiratory diseases in recent weeks it is due to known pathogens. The National Health Commission of the Asian country indicated in a press conference that it has not detected any infection due to new viruses or […]
“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 […]