Entries by ignacioriesgo

7 days in healthcare (February 7-13, 2022)

SUMMARY From the point of view of biomedicine, to highlight the advances that allow paraplegics to walk, through spinal implants. Regarding Global Health, it is worth mentioning the WHO warning that the pandemic has threatened the health systems of 90% of the countries; as well as the health problems in Burkina Faso and Afghanistan. In […]

7 days in healthcare (January 31-February 6, 2022)

  SUMMARY As far as biomedicine is concerned, the report on the value of death by The Lancet stands out; also the development of the nasal vaccine against COVID; the new horizon of transplants, derived from the possibilities of genetic editing of animal organs; and, the revolution that the new cancer vaccines based on mRNA […]

7 days in healthcare (January 24-30, 2022)

  Summary From the point of view of biomedicine, the concern regarding resistance to antibiotics continues, after the extensive report published by The Lancet. This pandemic produces more deaths than AIDS and malaria. New variant of “ómicron” appeared in Denmark. With regard to global health, the tenth anniversary of the declaration on “Neglected tropical diseases” […]

What if there was another pandemic?

    PDF of the article published in La Razón: La Razón, ¿Que pasaría si hubiera otra pandemia? On January 31, 2022, coinciding with the second anniversary of the diagnosis of the first case of COVID in Spain, which took place on January 31, 2020 in La Gomera (Canary Islands), the newspaper La Razón published […]

7 days in healthcare (January 17-23, 2022)

  SUMMARY From an international point of view, the article published in The Lancet should be highlighted, in which mortality due to antimicrobial resistance, one of the most important causes of death in the world, is analyzed at a global level. Also the demand of the British Medical Journal that the scientific community have access […]

7 days in healthcare (January 10-16, 2022)

  SUMMARY From the international point of view, several issues stand out. In the first place, the agreement of the French Assembly taken on Sunday, January 16, to prevent the access of the unvaccinated to leisure and restaurant premises; also Quebec’s initiative to introduce special taxes on the unvaccinated; the WHO’s opinion that it is […]

7 days in healthcare (January 3-9, 2022)

  SUMMARY From an international point of view, perhaps the most striking thing is the great global expansion of COVID, particularly of the “omicron” variant, with a record number of infections in the United States, of more than one million a day. As for national news, official policy continues to trust everything to vaccination, avoiding […]

Trends in healthcare 2022

    See PDF Deloitte document: 2022 Global Health Outlook, Deloitte See PDF Forbes predictions (Anita Gupta) The Future Of Health Three Healthcare Trends For 2022 See PDF Capgemini document: Top-Trends-in-Healthcare-2022 La clave para el desafío de 2022 que la COVID potencia – Project Syndicate: La clave para los desafíos de 2022 que la COVID […]