Health & Science

Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 05:05 UTC
WHO foresees challenging European winter as COVID-19 cases surge

According to a statement released Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO), Europe shall be facing a challenging winter by the end of 2022 due to the rapid escalation of COVID-19 cases.
Saturday, July 16th 2022 - 10:11 UTC
US CDC concerned over parechovirus after one child dies

US health authorities have voiced this week their concern over the surge of an infection which can seriously affect infants and is caused by the little-known parechovirus. One child has already died of this ailment, it was reported.
Friday, July 15th 2022 - 20:46 UTC
Brazil issues guidelines for people vaccinated against COVID-19 with Janssen

Brazilian health authorities Thursday launched a campaign explaining the proper use and handling of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine and the number of booster doses recommended for this specific drug.
Thursday, July 14th 2022 - 07:56 UTC
PAHO says monkeypox in the region moderate but worrisome

Pan American Health Organization Director Carissa Etienne Wednesday said the monkeypox scenario in the region was worrisome, albeit moderate, and that vaccines were nearly non-available worldwide.
Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:36 UTC
Evo says Argentine motorbiker was not denied medical help

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Tuesday said over lunch at Casa Rosada with President Alberto Fernández that the retired Salta teacher who died after a motorcycling accident near Santa Cruz de la Sierra had received all possible medical care, thus contradicting statements from his family and friends.
Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 08:38 UTC
PAHO supports Uruguayan Health Ministry in vax judicial ruling

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has sent a letter of support to Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas after a judge ordered all vaccination of children under 13 years of age against COVID-19 be halted in the country.
Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 08:12 UTC
Number of monkeypox cases in Brazil crosses 200 threshold

Brazilian health authorities Monday confirmed there were 219 confirmed cases of monkeypox nationwide, with the bulk of them in São Paulo (158) and Rio de Janeiro (34), according to an Agência Brasil report.
Monday, July 11th 2022 - 20:52 UTC
Life expectancy drops from 2019 figures, UN says

The United Nations' World Population Prospects (WPP) report released Monday foresees the world's population will reach 8 billion people by November of 2022 and that India will surpass China as the country with the largest number of inhabitants.
Monday, July 11th 2022 - 10:10 UTC
Uruguayan gov't to appeal ruling banning C-19 vax for U-13 people

Uruguayan Health Ministry (MSP) legal advisors are to submit Monday an appeal to Judge Alejandro Recarey's decision to suspend vaccination against COVID-19 of people aged, it was reported in Montevideo.
Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:29 UTC
Face masks again become mandatory in Punta Arenas because of Covid and respiratory viruses

Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales, southern Chile, have again reinstated the mandatory use of face masks in closed spaces and in open places where people can't keep a physical distance of at least one meter. Likewise massive events will have a maximum presence of 10,000 people with face masks, and there will also be limits to the Mobility Pass, unless space allows a one meter distance minimum.