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Un estudio de Oxford busca descubrir cómo afectan los antidepresivos a las mentes jóvenes
Un innovador estudio dirigido por la Universidad de Oxford está analizando más de cerca cómo funcionan los antidepresivos, en particular el ISRS fluoxetina (Prozac), en los jóvenes. Con un número récord de personas de entre 15 y 29 años a las que se les recetan estos medicamentos, los investigadores esperan descubrir por qué el mismo tratamiento ayuda a algunos y a otros no.
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Cuando el tiempo está de tu lado: adaptar la terapia contra el cáncer al reloj biológico
Las últimas investigaciones sugieren que nuestro ritmo interno de 24 horas no solo regula el sueño, sino que también podría ser la clave para mejorar los tratamientos contra el cáncer. Investigadores de la Universidad Johns Hopkins están estudiando cómo el aprovechamiento del reloj circadiano del cuerpo podría transformar la forma, el momento y el motivo por el que ciertas terapias tienen éxito.
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Global Regulators Unite in Jakarta to Elevate Herbal Medicine Standards
From 14–16 October 2025, regulators, policymakers and researchers convened in Jakarta, Indonesia for the 16th annual meeting of the World Health Organization’s International Regulatory Cooperation for Herbal Medicines (IRCH). Hosted by Indonesia’s national drug authority (BPOM RI), the gathering aimed to strengthen collaboration, harmonise regulation and boost the safe, quality use of herbal and traditional medicines worldwide.
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Untangling Autism’s Roots: What Science Knows and What Remains a Mystery
Autism is not a simple black-and-white condition. Decades of research reveal a complex web of genetic, environmental, and developmental influences. New funding, refined analytics, and bold hypotheses may finally bring clarity.
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Guardians Within: Scientists Win 2025 Nobel Prize for Revealing How the Immune System Protects the Body From Itself
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine celebrates a discovery that reshaped our understanding of immunity. Japanese and American researchers uncovered the “security guards” of our immune system a revelation now guiding groundbreaking treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.
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Guardians Within: Scientists Win 2025 Nobel Prize for Revealing How the Immune System Protects the Body From Itself
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine celebrates a discovery that reshaped our understanding of immunity. Japanese and American researchers uncovered the “security guards” of our immune system a revelation now guiding groundbreaking treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.
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Global Measles Alarms Rise: Outbreaks Sweep Across the U.S. and Europe
From Utah to Ukraine, measles is making a dangerous comeback. New outbreaks in the United States mirror an alarming surge across Europe the highest in more than 25 years reigniting calls for stronger vaccination efforts.
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Three Ways Forward in a Post Covid-19 World
There are three important ways forward in addressing the pandemic and its impacts on health and wellbeing in the years to come.
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Gender-sensitive Workplace Health Promotion: Why It Is Important and How It Can Be Implemented in Practice
Sex and gender are important determinants of health, but we often lack criteria for effective gender-sensitive work place health promotion. A team at the Austrian Health Promotion Fund are working to overcome these challenges. They have developed 17 criteria and a 62-point checklist for workplace health promotion initiatives.
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COVID-19: the worst may be yet to come
As much of western Europe begins to ease countrywide lockdowns, globally the pandemic may still be in its infancy, with more than 160 000 new cases reported each day since June 25. Individual countries count cases differently, so direct comparisons are difficult, but the numbers illustrate a worrying pattern. At a subnational level the picture is nuanced, with local hotspots, but at a country level the picture is clear—the world is facing a worsening multipolar pandemic.
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Medicine shortages in the EU: causes and solutions
Find out why there is a shortage of medicines, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and how Parliament wants to improve the situation
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Coronavirus Makes Inequality a Public Health Issue
“It may seem like a ridiculous idea but the only way to fight the plague is with decency.” – Dr Rieux in Albert Camus’s 1947 novel, The Plague.
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Study finds functional medicine model is associated with improvements in health-related QOL
In the first retrospective cohort study of the functional medicine model, Cleveland Clinic researchers found that functional medicine was associated with improvements in health-related quality of life. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open.
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NHS treating 5,000 diabetics a day as one in 10 patients now suffer with illness, figures reveal
Hospitals are being deluged by 5,000 type 2 diabetics a day, new figures reveal as one in 10 patients are now suffering from a form of the illness linked to being overweight and inactive.
More than 1.7million people with type 2 diabetes were admitted to hospitals last year, costing the NHS an estimated £22million a day.
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A ‘Cure’ for Ebola but Will it Stop the Outbreak if People Won’t Get Treatment?
While people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are slowly being made aware that scientists have discovered two drugs that are effective in treating Ebola, letting go of the fear and anxiety that has prevailed across the country this year will require more work.
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Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training.
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90–90–90 Treatment for All
An ambitious treatment target to help end the AIDS epidemic
By 2020, 90% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status ...
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Incident Management System
To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability,
To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability, WHE proposed the development of a series of training packages to build staff competencies, skills and knowledge, to enhance deployment and response capability.
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Depression: A Global Public Health Concern
Depression is a significant contributor to the global burden of disease and affects people in all communities across the world. Today, depression is estimated to affect 350 million people.
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Estimating HIV incidence and number of undiagnosed individuals living with HIV in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2015
Since 2011, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence appears unchanged in the European Union/European Economic Area with between 29,000 and 33,000 new cases reported annually up to 2015.
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Establishing a Global Vaccine-Development Fund
As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa continues, albeit at a much lower level than it reached in the spring, we still lack a vaccine that has been shown to be safe and effective.
Much attention has appropriately been directed at major disease targets such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis, and malaria, for which organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust are providing considerable financial support. Similar attention has been devoted to the provision of currently licensed pediatric vaccines, which is supported by GAVI (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization).
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Maternidad en la niñez
Enfrentar el reto del embarazo en adolescentes
Every day in developing countries, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth. Nine in 10 of these births occur within marriage or a union. This has consequences on the health, education, employment and rights of an untold millions of girls. Full Report also in Español...
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