Health & Science

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Cuba to produce antibiotics locally to save on pricy imports

  

  Cuban health authorities announced earlier this week that the Caribbean nation will produce some antibiotics in high demand at Intensive Care Units (ICUs) to save on their high price.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Uruguay: Lacalle admits to changing his mind over retirement age

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Tuesday admitted he had defaulted on one of his campaign promises of not raising the retirement age, because “it was impossible” not to modify it.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:32 UTC

  Argentina and Chile lobby for a Marine Protected Area west of Antarctica Peninsula

  

  Argentine and Chilean relations have not been traditionally smooth given the several borderline disputes both in land and in the sea, but there is a chance that this rivalry turns into a biodiversity milestone, with the joint proposal to create a Marine Protected Area in waters next to west Antarctica Peninsula and south of the Scotia arc, a project in which the Chilean Antarctic Institute and Argentina's Antarctic Institute have been working on since 2012.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:23 UTC

  Many Mexicans showed persistent sequelae from COVID-19

  

  A survey from Mexico's Health Ministry released this week has shown that over one-third of patients who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 still have recurrent problems known as “persistent sequelae” despite having overcome the disease.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Peru reports first death of patient with monkeypox

  

  Peruvian health authorities Monday confirmed the first death of a patient with monkeypox in the continent's country second worst hit by the outbreak, while neighboring Bolivia confirmed the first infection.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Consensus among Mercosur countries to tackle monkeypox

  

  Uruguayan Health Minister Daniel Salinas Monday announced health authorities within Mercosur were drafting a joint plan to fight the monkeypox outbreak.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 08:07 UTC

  World Breastfeeding Week, the best possible start in life; message from UNICEF and WHO

  

  UNICEF and WHO have underlined the vital importance of breastfeeding as the best possible start in life, as global crises continue to threaten the health and nutrition of millions of babies and children.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 21:20 UTC

  COVID-19 cases on the rise in Argentina

  

  Argentine health authorities have reported over the weekend a significant increase in the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide last week (52,745 ), a 26% increase over the previous week.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:42 UTC

  New Zealand fully reopens borders to build back from COVID isolation

  

  The Government of New Zealand has fully reopened its borders effective August 1 to foreign visitors, thus ending the sanitary restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic. The South Pacific country had one of the toughest travel regimes imposed on health grounds globally. Before Covid-19, tourism accounted for 5.5% of New Zealand's GDP.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:06 UTC

  Peru totals 282 cases of monkeypox

  

  Peruvian health authorities have reported the number of monkeypox cases in the country had reached 282 Sunday, 34 days after the first infection was confirmed.