A recent study presents a systematic review of clinical observational studies and preliminary studies analyzing the possible relationship between COVID-19 vaccination and the prevalence of different types of cancer. Among its conclusions, it states that the evidence collected in the [...]
A German court has forced the pharmaceutical company to reveal information about patients suffering from thrombosis after administering AstraZeneca’s Vaxzevria vaccine. On May 7, the marketing authorization for Vaxzevria, the vaccine against COVID-19 from the AstraZeneca laboratory, was withdrawn at [...]
Hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to prevent and treat acute attacks of malaria in adults and children weighing more than 31 kg, was prescribed to patients hospitalized with Covid-19 during the first wave of the virus. Its use could be related [...]
Researchers Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their pioneering work on messenger RNA (mRNA). Their discoveries on nucleoside base modifications enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that [...]
The “zero-COVID” policies implemented by the Chinese government and other countries such as Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, mainly consisted of an attempt to completely eliminate outbreaks, establishing strict border controls and extreme containment measures through radical lockdowns. The Australian [...]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), we will never know how many people have died as a result of COVID-19 around the world. A recent study published in Nature collects data provided by this organization. It draws attention to [...]
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted the situation of national health systems and, therefore, the preparation, planning, coordination and prevention of countries in the face of a situation of high demand for care. Our health service has been overload by the [...]
On September 14, The Lancet published an article defining the global response to COVID-19 as “a massive global failure at multiple levels”. Faced with this publication, the WHO has responded by stating that the report presents “omissions and misinterpretations”. The [...]
In order to know the origin of SARS-CoV-2, we recently published an article in which 32 scientists expressed the need, on the part of the international community, to know about it. They showed that the data available on the virus [...]
An article published in The New York Times (October 6, 2021, and on CNBC October 14), comments the Alaska COVID-19 crisis management and the specific case of two patients who needed to be admitted to the intensive care unit of [...]
Updated 9/14/2021 The term ageism was coined in the English language in 1969, and is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as “unfair treatment of people who are becoming old or who are old”. From a bioethical point of view, this definition is an excellent interpretation of ageism – it is [...]
Before addressing the continuous increase of loneliness in Britain and its medical and ethical effects, we give specialists’ opinions of what is happening in the United State in the COVID-19 era (read HERE). In this respect, an article published in [...]
