Entries by ignacioriesgo

7 days in healthcare (February 5th-11th, 2024)

  Summary From the point of view of Biomedicine, the first effective medication against endometriosis, the growth of the mucosa that internally lines the uterus in other parts of the body, which produces serious disorders, is on the horizon. The Lancet insists that population screening, including genomic screening, requires robust evidence. Population screenings generate considerable […]

7 days in healthcare (January 29th-February 4th, 2024)

  Summary From the point of view of Biomedicine, the use of gene therapy based on CRISPR for the treatment of hereditary angioedema should be highlighted. Great debate regarding Elon Musk’s brain chip, in general the scientific community has expressed serious reservations about this initiative. Beginning of the first trials with mRNA-based therapy in cancers […]

7 days in healthcare (January 22nd-28th, 2024)

  Summary From the point of view of Biomedicine, highlight the article by Dr. Topol, famous American cardiologist and doctor, who says how generative AI can contribute to significantly reducing medical errors, which cause hundreds of thousands of deaths a year in the United States and around the world. An initial cancer screening seems to […]

7 days in healthcare (January 15th-21st, 2024)

covidoriginandChina,   Summary From the point of view of Biomedicine, it is worth highlighting the fact that in China they created the first cloned monkey, which introduces us to the ethical debate of the possible cloning of human beings. Also the fact of the discovery of biomarkers that allow persistent covid to be diagnosed. As […]

7 days in healthcare (January 8th-14th, 2024)

  Summary From the point of view of Biomedicine, it is worth highlighting the first results of the genomic studies of tumors carried out by the British public company, created in Cameron’s time, Genomics England, which will allow new therapeutic orientations in tumors. Certain hopes for patients with schizophrenia, a disease with a limited therapeutic […]

7 days in healthcare (January 1st-7th, 2024)

  Summary From the point of view of Biomedicine, scientists celebrate a new antibiotic, currently undergoing Phase 1 clinical trials, that can kill resistant bacteria. The magazine Nature publishes precisely an editorial in relation to the need to encourage the appearance of new antibiotics against resistant bacteria. The problem is that the current business model […]

7 days in healthcare (December 18th-24th, 2023)

  Summary From the point of view of Biomedicine, among the “star drugs” of 2023, the first drug based on CRISPR technology, from the North American company Vertex Pharmaceuticals, stands out. Regarding Global Health, the WHO classifies a new variant of covid which it calls JN.1, which is characterized by its wide spread, although low […]

9 strategic proposals for a health system in crisis

      On the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the Health supplement of the Asturian newspaper “La Nueva España”, I published, December 15th 2023,  the following article in said supplement, whose PDF can be accessed:   9 strategic proposals for a health system in crisis 9 strategic proposals for a health system in […]

7 days in healthcare (December 11th-17th, 2023)

  Summary From the point of view of Biomedicine, CRISPR therapy, which begins with sickle cell anemia, is great hope. In the end, the FDA approves two gene therapies for this disease, which affects 7.7 million people globally and is a chronic, debilitating disease that causes pain and reduces the quality and expectancy of life. […]