Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: “Este virus nos ha sorprendido a cada paso” En las palabras de apertura de la 75ª Asamblea Mundial de la Salud en Ginebra, Suiza, donde se le reelegió por amplia mayoría como director general de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ph. D., insistió en que […]
Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. SARS-CoV-2 is a strange virus, and not only because it is so novel. The variability in clinical presentation and outcome is still perplexing; the emergence of […]
The FDA, along with CDC, the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, state, and local partners are investigating a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections in the United States and Canada potentially linked to fresh organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo and HEB, purchased between March […]
Balance del Centro Europeo para la Prevención y Control de Enfermedades (ECDC) de lo que se sabe sobre la viruela símica. Se recomienda que los países europeos se centren en la identificación, la gestión, el rastreo de los contactos y la notificación de los nuevos casos. ¿Qué es la viruela […]
After a dip in US reports of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) early in the COVID-19 pandemic, cases have resurged, according to the CDC’s 2020 STD Surveillance Report. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The report noted that the decline in cases was likely due to pandemic-related disruptions in care and several other factors: […]
Wastewater surveillance is exactly what it sounds like: Concentrated wastewater samples are collected and screened for different bacteria or viruses that may be present in a given community. Researchers like Natalie Exum, PhD ’16, an assistant scientist in Environmental Health and Engineering, have used this tool during the pandemic to spot potential […]
La ministra de Sanidad, Carolina Darias, anunció el pasado 25 de mayo en la rueda de prensa posterior al Consejo Interterritorial del Sistema Nacional de Salud (CISNS), la participación de España, junto al resto de Estados miembros de la Unión Europea, en la adquisición conjunta de Imvanex, la vacuna autorizada en julio de 2013 […]
The Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium announced that its researchers have managed to identify the key that allows the COVID-19 virus to attack cells. What’s more, they have succeeded in closing the lock to block the virus and prevent it from interacting with the cell, thereby preventing infection. […]
More than half of children and youth with autism experienced pandemic-related declines in mental health between May and December 2020, according to a large Canadian cohort study. The study, based on surveys with parents of 230 children and youth with autism, showed that 141 (61%) of these children had mental health deterioration, […]
El primer contagio humano ocurrió en 1970 pero antes del 2022 todos los casos habían ocurrido en África. Hasta ahora el único país de América Latina con casos es Argentina. Las mismas medidas indicadas para la protección de la Covid-19 funcionan contra la viruela del mono. Aunque existe el riesgo […]
