The World Health Organization celebrates the good results of antiretroviral therapy, but underlines concern about the lack of access to medicines for children living with the virus New human immunodeficiency virus infections and deaths (HIV), causing the AIDSthey are declining, but not “quickly enough”, according to the assessment of the Director-General of the World Health […]
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Aspartame, used in Coca-Cola Zero, to be declared as possibly carcinogenic by WHO
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WHO classifies aspartame as possibly carcinogenic. Is it time to stop consuming?
For insiders, the provision reinforces the need for more in-depth studies on this sweetener, present in various products, such as sugar-free Coca-Cola; intake limit was not changed the artificial sweetener aspartame was classified as a compound “possibly carcinogenic to humans” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency linked to the World […]
Covid-19: from the first cases to the end of the emergency, remember the main episodes of the pandemic
The disease has caused the largest health crisis of the century across the planet, with a total of 765.2 million cases and nearly 7 million deaths More than 1,190 days passed between the start and end of the declaration of a public health emergency (PHEIC) for the coronavirus pandemic. corona virusmade by World Health Organization […]
Covid pandemic: Brazil had 10% of official deaths from disease in the world; understand
The absolute number of fatalities is the second highest on the planet, although the country was the sixth with the highest number of cases. Since the beginning of the pandemic COVID-19nearly 7 million people have died from the disease worldwide, according to official records from the World Health Organization. Of the total, around 10% of […]
Covid pandemic: what has changed in our lives in the last three years
The biggest health crisis of the century has profoundly changed health, education, work and science After more than three years, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced this Friday, the 5th, that the COVID-19 no more health emergency of international importance, the highest level alert of the organization. It is a historic day after the declaration […]
End of the covid pandemic? Understand the WHO decision on health emergency
The technical director responsible for the fight against the coronavirus, Maria Van Kerkhove, explains what the decision means Friday 5 May 2023 will go down in history: the World Health Organization (WHO) said the end of the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) of the coronavirus pandemic. The question that remains is: does this […]
Arcturus: know the symptoms of the new variant of covid-19 that is already circulating in Brazil
Despite rapid contamination, XBB.1.16 poses no risk of further hospitalizations and deaths, according to specialists; conjunctivitis and high fever are some of the symptoms that may be associated with the new strain First sequenced in India in January of this year, and now present in nearly 40 countries, the new variant of COVID-19 Arthuralso called […]
World Health Day: the challenges of making the planet healthier
This April 7, the World Health Organization (WHO) turns 75 and takes advantage of the date to strengthen its commitments with the theme Health for all In 1950, exactly two years after the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO), the body established the day dedicated to reflections, discussions and actions in favor of the […]
Marburg virus: WHO publishes report on the risk of spreading the disease
In the African country nine dead and 34 contacts followed; of the Ebola family, the virus is one of the deadliest in the world, but the organization sees a low chance of a global outbreak The global risk of spreading the Marburg virusof the same family as ebolacausing an outbreak in Equatorial Guinea, is low, […]
