2023-08-06 02:55:27 According to the WHO, 5% of the adult population worldwide suffers from depression; in Colombia the figure does not improve: it is estimated that a quarter of Colombians suffer from anxiety, depression or another mental disorder. You can read: What is the health pyramid? Here Dr. Santiago Rojas explains it to you 5 … Read more
2023-07-04 17:28:47 The El Niño phenomenon, which has been officially declared today by consensus of the scientific community, may accentuate food insecurity in certain affected regions, as well as increase the burden of infectious diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today. “By altering weather conditions, El Niño will have a very strong impact on … Read more
2023-06-27 09:31:42 We must not let our guard down in the face of Covid, responsible for a thousand deaths each week in Europe, the European office of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday. “Although this is no longer a global public health emergency, Covid-19 has not gone away,” regional director Hans Kluge told … Read more
2023-05-11 16:03:30 The organization considers it sufficiently under control almost a year after the start of its outbreak. The WHO on Thursday lifted its maximum alert level for the mpox epidemic (formerly called monkeypox), deeming it sufficiently under control almost a year after the start of its outbreak. This epidemicno longer represents a public health … Read more
2023-05-03 15:26:34 In Costa Rica, a researcher is said to have identified bacteria that produce antibiotics. A discovery that could offer new avenues for combating antibiotic resistance, which is responsible for several thousand deaths each year. A researcher thinks he can discover new antibiotics in Costa Rica by studying the bacteria present in the coat … Read more
Sara Sofia Gonçalves Yesterday at 23:31 About 17.5% of the world’s adult population, which is equivalent to one in six people, suffers from infertility. The data are from the most recent study on the subject, published today by the World Health Organization (WHO), which gathers information from more than 133 studies on the subject worldwide. … Read more
Equatorial Guinea announced on Wednesday March 30 two additional deaths from the Marburg virus, bringing the number of deaths officially attributed to the disease to nine. Given the distance between the different confirmed cases, namely more than a hundred kilometers, the Director General of the World Health Organization, the Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed this … Read more
The World Health Organization (OMS) announced today that it is considering as “previously in circulation” the alpha, beta, gamma, delta and omicron variants of the coronavirus cause of the COVID-19and will now focus on the study of new subvariants of the last one, which have emerged since 2022. One of the omicron subvariants, XBB 1.5, … Read more