During 2024 more than 10 tons of illegal medications in Peru. Among these we find syrups, capsules, injectables and clandestine production machinery that participate in the market to the detriment of citizen health. Carlos Aliaga, a member of the Medical Committee of the Pharmaceutical Laboratories Association in Latin America (Alafal) warns that the falsification of […]
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Argentina outside the WHO: a political and sanitary nonsense, according to experts
The decision of the president of ArgentinaJavier Milei, to follow Donald Trump’s example and withdraw his country from the World Health Organization (WHO) lacks logic in the level of foreign policy and is a “aberration”From the health point of view, experts consulted by EFE affirm. The measure announced on Wednesday and widely questioned by various […]
By 2030, there will be more than 1.2 billion obese adults, according to UN estimates
The UN warned that cases of obesity continue to rise in the world and estimates that by 2030 there will be “more than 1.2 billion obese adults,” according to a report released this week by five of its agencies. In the last decade, obesity cases went froml 12.1% (2012) and to 15.8% (2022) of the […]
WHO welcomes drug that has reduced HIV infections to zero in clinical trials
The World Health Organization (WHO) On Thursday, the United States welcomed clinical trials that have managed to reduce infections to zero for the first time. HIV in a test group via an injectable drug, lenacapovir, and recommended that the drug be made accessible worldwide if future trials continue to show this “incredible effectiveness.” “We are […]
WHO concerned about new strain of ‘monkeypox’; situation in Congo is alarming
The World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday of the threat posed by mpox (formerly known as ‘monkeypox’), expressing concern about an outbreak of a new, more deadly strain in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this regard, the WHO said it had received reports of cases from 26 countries in […]
Talc classified as probably carcinogenic by WHO
Talc has been classified as probably carcinogenic by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer agency, which has also classified acrylonitrile, a compound used in the production of polymers, as carcinogenic. Experts from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), meeting in Lyon, France, published their results on Friday in the journal The Lancet Oncology. […]
WHO: a third of the world’s population has insufficient physical activity
The World Health Organization (WHO) said this Wednesday that the latest data it has analyzed indicates that a third (31%) of adults, or 1.8 billion people, do not carry out the recommended physical activity, with a trend towards greater inactivity in the adult population. The data taken into account allow us to reach general conclusions, […]
Covid pandemic reduced life expectancy by almost two years between 2019 and 2021
The pandemic Covid-19 reduced life expectancy by almost two years between 2019 and 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Friday, destroying a decade of progress. Between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years to 71.4 years, the 2012 level, according to the WHO’s annual report on global health statistics. Likewise, […]
WHO: “extremely concerned” about possible large-scale operation against Gaza
World Health Organization (WHO) declared this Friday “extremely concerned” about Israeli plans to intervene militarily on a large scale in Rafah, in the extreme south of the Gaza Stripwhere 1.2 million Palestinians are crowded together, many having fled months of hostilities further north. Such an operation “would worsen the humanitarian catastrophe,” the WHO representative in […]
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the world in half a century, according to the WHO
Vaccines have managed to save the lives of 154 million people in the world, a statistical analysis presented by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the occasion of the start of its Global Immunization Week. The majority of these saved lives would be children (146 million), particularly those under one year of age (101 million), […]