2020 ha desplegado una actividad médica frenética en torno a una nueva enfermedad; el año ha terminado con buenas noticias (las vacunas), pero la pandemia no ha acabado Por Sonia Moreno La noche del 30 de diciembre de 2019 la red de la Sociedad Internacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas emitió un aviso urgente sobre el brote de una extraña […]
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El secretario general de la ONU pide invertir en los sistemas de salud para «mejorar» la respuesta a «futuras emergencias» ABCMADRID «La historia nos dice que esta no será la última pandemia. Las epidemias son un hecho en la vida», ha dicho en este metraje publicado por el primer Día Internacional de la Preparación ante Epidemias.El
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Joaquín Mateu Mollá Adjunct Professor at the International University of Valencia, Doctor in Clinical Psychology, International University of Valencia The current health crisis situation has precipitated, in almost all countries of the world, a huge adaptive effort. There have been many recommendations to preserve the health of citizens, some of which are very restrictive and difficult
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In addition to wearing a mask correctly and respecting the recommended distance in closed spaces: 1 • The safest way to spend Christmas and the festive period is to stay in your own home and with the people you normally live with. Any other option, even if permitted, is a risk that you must carefully consider.
By Vicente Soriano Faculty of Health Sciences & Medical Center, UNIR – International University of La Rioja The first cases of AIDS were described in the United States in 1981. HIV, the retrovirus that causes the disease, took two years to be identified. Since then, more than 80 million people have been infected.
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We present a review of the main developments in the field of basic, clinical, epidemiological and social research on HIV and that we have published in La Noticia del Día throughout this year Francesc Martínez COVID-19 COVID-19 (an acronym in English for coronavirus disease 2019) has been the big topic of the year, with
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By Killian Meara A new strain of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus, called B.1.1.7, has been recognized as spreading across the United Kingdom. The new variant was identified earlier this month in the county of Kent in southeastern England. After experiencing a surge in cases, the
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By Barbara Jungwirth and Myles Helfan The end of a calendar year inevitably brings an endless series of retrospectives on our successes and failures, as well as the lessons we've learned along the way. These summaries can easily feel overstuffed, but they're also valuable and even in a year as unstable and tense as 2020
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Experts encourage people with HIV to get the coronavirus vaccine, saying there's no reason to think it won't be safe. • By Liz Highleyman On Dec. 11, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization for the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, following
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By ANDREW JOSEPH @DrewQJoseph The coronavirus behind the pandemic presents some disconcerting dualities. It is dangerous enough to send patients to hospitals in droves and has killed more than 1.6 million people, but mild enough that most people ignore it. It prevents one arm of the system from
