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The minutes of a meeting of the Advisory Forum of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control reveal how eradicating the virus was ruled out as being too costly and counterproductive

FDA experts conclude that oral phenylephrine does not provide more clinical benefit than placebo

A study show that pharmaceutical companies charge higher prices for these therapies, draining resources from other diseases

José Juan Rodríguez, professor in Food Safety, warns that without changes in the industry and people’s habits, outbreaks of food poisoning will grow

Considered an exclusively tropical disease only a decade ago, it is now endemic in Spain after an increase in the number of diagnoses in patients who contracted the illness without traveling abroad

A team of German physicians treating war-wounded soldiers and civilians have warned about the high number of antibiotic-resistant pathogens they have identified

The new and million-dollar gene treatment make the disease remit almost completely for four or five years. Open investigations now seek a definitive cure

Spanish expert Esteve Fernández applauds New Zealand’s initiative to phase out access to tobacco entirely but warns that the industry is using e-cigarettes to create new generations of smokers

US legislation, profit motives, medical advances and patents are some of the reasons why new treatments are becoming more and more costly

A lack of transparency over the scale of the latest outbreak and concerns over the possibility of new variants emerging have led to new restrictions in several countries

The Spanish researcher believes that the Asian country has made a mistake in going from a zero-Covid policy to a nearly unrestricted one, as its population has low vaccination coverage

The health authority says the combination pain treatment can cause serious harm to the kidneys, particularly when taken at higher than recommended doses

WHO’s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision despite a divergence within the committee of experts that has evaluated the outbreak

The organization warns that overall cases in Europe have tripled in the last two weeks, although it has not yet declared the outbreak a global health emergency

With cases now exceeding 3,500 in 42 countries, the organization could raise the health alert to the same level as Covid-19 and the effort to eradicate polio

According to a new WHO report, the problem is already reaching ‘epidemic levels’ in Europe

The number of people being treated ‘with the virus’ instead of ‘because of Covid-19′ has risen sharply due to the spread of omicron and the protection offered by vaccines

The measure, reached by the central Health Ministry and regional authorities, will affect more than 12 million people

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez also announced plans to purchase 344,000 doses of the antiviral medication Paxlovid

The Health Ministry reported 292,394 new infections on Monday and added 202 deaths to the official toll, which now exceeds 90,000

People who suffered severe adverse reactions to the first dose, and were told by doctors not to get a second shot, now find themselves unable to travel, attend events or enter many venues

Experts, however, are warning that January will be complicated, with the sixth wave of the pandemic peaking around the second week of the month

The decision was taken on Wednesday by the Health Ministry and the country’s regions, but did not have the blessing of an advisory board of experts who requested more time to examine the evidence backing such a move

Health Ministry and the regions will today debate whether to reduce isolation time for people with confirmed infections from 10 days to five

The sixth wave of the health crisis, which is being fueled by the spread of the omicron variant, saw more than 500 hospital admissions a day over the Christmas weekend

Miguel Hernán, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard University, talks to EL PAÍS about the spike in coronavirus cases, the need for greater restrictions and whether omicron will overtake delta