Summary The most impactful news in health this week was, from an international point of view, Trump’s victory in the American elections, which will undoubtedly have consequences for health in that country, and, therefore, in all the others. As national news, the one with the most long-term consequences was the abandonment of the MUFACE […]
Summary Biomedicine ADHD (adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) should not be treated as a disease. Until now, a binary scheme was applied, either you had or you didn’t have ADHD. Today we know that there is a wide spectrum of severity, like any other ordinary human trait. With certain aids, which should be in […]
Summary Biomedicine A drug that can change the world. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world. First they were for diabetes, then for obesity, now for cardiovascular and kidney diseases, and are being tested for Alzheimer’s and addictions. As they become cheaper and easier to use, they promise to change the lives of more […]
Summay Biomedicine New applications for anti-obesity drugs. Ozempic and similar drugs also promise to control opioid and alcohol abuse by up to 50%. Very good survival in Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Immune therapy achieves survival in Hodgkin’s lymphoma by almost 100%. Conclusions of a phase III trial. Global Health Two million children could die of hunger in […]
Summary Biomedicine Two Americans win the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of microRNA and its role in how organisms develop and function. MicroRNA is critical in post-transcriptional gene regulation. It is now known that the human genome encodes more than 1,000 different microRNAs, which control a wide variety of processes. Major advances […]
Summary Biomedicine The father of CAR-T therapy, Dr. Carl H June, winner of the 5th edition of the Abarca Prize. The prize is awarded to Dr. June, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, for his pioneering study and development of a revolutionary strategy to treat blood cancers, based on cellular engineering. Slow progress […]
Summary Biomedicine Organ donation, lessons from the Spanish model. Transplantation is the only valid treatment for the failure of certain organs and can transform the lives of these patients. According to the Global Observatory on Donations and Transplants, only 10% of the global demand for transplants is met. Transplant ratios vary greatly between countries, […]
Summary Biomedicine Recognition for the scientists who developed anti-obesity drugs. Joel Habener (USA), Svetlana Mojsov (North Macedonia) and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen (Denmark), the parents of Ozempic, win the American Nobel Prize, the Lasker-DeBakey Prize for Clinical Medical Research 2024. Their scientific achievements are estimated to have allowed the discovery and development of FLP-1, the […]
Summary Biomedicine Direct-to-consumer medical testing: an industry built on fear. This industry is growing rapidly and will reach $9 billion by 2033. Genetic tests, biochemical tests and monitoring systems are the most common offerings. A recent Australian study analyses several hundred tests offered directly to consumers and shows that the vast majority have little […]
Summary Biomedicine Prostate cancer incidence in Europe: beware of overdiagnosis. The conclusion of an article published in the BMJ is that the incidence of prostate cancer varies very significantly in the different countries of Europe (rates of 46 in Ukraine to 336 in France, per 100,000 inhabitants). The incidence began to decline in some […]
