Menopause, under debate: an analysis warns of the excessive medicalization of this vital process | Health & Wellness

Something is changing in the menopause narrative. On the street and in science. The silence around a vital process that half of the planet has experienced, is experiencing or will be experiencing has begun to crack among public opinion and the scientific and medical perspective is also beginning to question its mode of operation. A … Read more

Sharing a flat at 90 years old, the benefits of intergenerational coexistence | Health & Wellness

Conchita Satorres was looking for a roommate in Barcelona. This is always a complicated process, but even more so when you are 91 years old and your last roommate was your husband. When Conchita became widowed, she began to withdraw into herself. And in her apartment. “She almost didn’t go out,” she admits. “The little … Read more

Obesity is already the most common form of malnutrition in most countries | Health & Wellness

There is an epidemic that is crossing the globe from end to end and is devastating more than the covid: if the coronavirus crisis has left, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 774 million cases in the world, obesity already affects to more than a billion people. A study published this Thursday in The … Read more

What protects us from developing a mental disorder? | Health & Wellness

Now that mental health has become one of the main topics of interest and that public care centers are mostly overwhelmed, it may be useful to remember which factors have demonstrated a protective capacity in the development of mental disorders. Committing to prevention is a completely complementary measure to investing adequately in a quality healthcare … Read more

Carmen, the girl who holds the key to the treatment of diseases of genetic origin | Health & Wellness

Carmen was only three months old when, on Three Kings Day 2021, she was admitted to the hospital with seizures, nodding, heavy breathing and blinking. The prognosis was atrocious: “He has six months to live.” Javier Silva, his father, remembers the emptiness of the room, the vertigo, the pain that prevented him from thinking and … Read more

Consult all the internal data of the EL PAÍS barometer: questionnaires, cross-examinations and individual responses | Health & Wellness

Downloadable Below, we provide downloadable documents with the questionnaire used, the survey documentation and the matrix with all the responses in various formats (spreadsheet, dta and sav), among other documents. Presentation of the 40dB survey data. You will access a folder with the results report, questionnaire, data with individual responses and cross analysis, among other … Read more

What are nitazenes, the street drug 40 times more powerful than fentanyl | Health & Wellness

Two deaths in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2023 are the latest in the United States attributed to a powerful class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Most healthcare systems cannot detect these substances, so the exact number of overdoses is unknown, but they are known to be involved in more than 200 deaths in Europe and … Read more

What are nitazenes, the street drug 40 times more powerful than fentanyl | Health & Wellness

Two deaths in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2023 are the latest in the United States attributed to a powerful class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Most healthcare systems cannot detect these substances, so the exact number of overdoses is unknown, but they are known to be involved in more than 200 deaths in Europe and … Read more