The researcher, who revolutionized the discipline by describing new types of autoimmune encephalitis, is researching the consequences that these processes leave in the body
A legislative reform being prepared by the European Union plans to promote the use of already approved drugs to treat other illnesses. Doing so will speed up the approval of treatments and save on research costs
Frequency of injections, the body’s immune response and errors in the administration of the drug can shorten the amount of time a patient will enjoy their desired results
The United Kingdom has introduced restrictions for non-immunized children in Birmingham, while Romania has declared a national epidemic after three deaths were reported
Health authorities are encouraging countries to strengthen surveillance systems and to report any changes in the incidence or severity of detected cases
The commercial strategy of the pharmaceutical company Bluebird Bio, which left the EU after a dispute with Germany over the price of another drug, leaves dozens of minors suffering from a rare fatal hereditary disease with no treatment
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
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
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
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