The United Nations summit devoted to the analysis of the Millennium Development Goals, held in New York, was focused especially on the level of economic aid pledged by richer countries. However, little has been said about science, especially in two areas crucial to development, food and health.

XAVIER PUJOL GEBELLÍ | SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2010

A team of experts from the World Health Organization and UNICEF have analyzed the death records of 193 countries and found that, although child mortality has declined worldwide during the last decade, a full six million children die annually from infectious diseases, many of which are easily treatable.

Staff | 13 may 2010

This research was supported by the WHO and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with the active participation of researchers from CRESIB (Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona-Idibaps) and CISM: Dr. Anna Roca, co-author of the article published in 'The Lancet' (16-04-2010), Dr. Pedro L. Alonso and Llorenç Quintó.

19 APRIL 2010

Something is wrong in the fight against tuberculosis. Every second a person is infected by the Koch bacillus and a third of the world's population lives with it. The treatment is the same as 40 years ago and the vaccine has not changed since the '20s. In 2006, the WHO set the target for 2015 to reduce the infections by half, but victory seems distant: tuberculosis repeats its presence in the list of neglected diseases every year.

Ànnia Monreal | 24 March 2010

Dr. Maria Neira, director of the Department of Health and Environment of the World Health Organization (WHO), will offer on Thursday the 4th of March at 16.00 h. the conference entitled "Post-Copenhagen: Current agenda of climate change and health".

3 March 2010

The science that deals with agriculture has to undergo a "radical change" in the next 40 years. The goal, feeding a population that in 2050 probably will reach 9,000 million people worldwide. And at the base, taking into consideration the impact of climate change on crops and review the knowledge on plant molecular biology and agro-technologies.

Xavier Pujol Gebellí | 18 February 2010

Someone has uncovered the plot: The swine flu pandemic is just a hoax so that the Big Pharma can charge more. Hands up those who did not believe that sooner or later they were going to read this news. As expected, someone with sufficient credibility recently said something very similar, and all the media (of course) merrily joined the plot.

5 February 2010

Luca Tancredi Barone | Rome

Finding work or a partner through the Internet is no longer something risky, and online business transactions are no longer painful. The network has earned the trust of its users, despite of the existence of interested pressures or jokes that boycott the mesh. But to a world that moves for work, love and health, the time has come to introduce its fortress to the cyber assistance and to telemedicine. In the United States they have understood for a long time now the benefits of e-health. Europe struggles to follow its steps, whilst the United Nations urges the entire planet to change the chip.

Ànnia Monreal | 4 February 2010

The use of antibiotics has meant an indubitable advantage in the fight against microorganisms responsible for infections.

6 November 2009

José Juan Rodríguez Jerez, Food Safety

After a lengthy debate, at the end of July this year, the Italian Drug Agency (AIFA) approved the commercialization of Ru-486, the pill that causes abortion.

7 october 2009

Luca Tancredi Barone, Roma

Biomedical research is becoming the central element of inernational cooperative politics and a key point in the vicious cycle between poverty and health. The research efforts lie, especially, in all those diseases that are more linked to poverty: malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS.

Obsolete drugs and toxic insecticides have been the only weapons against malaria, until very recently. Many drugs that treat this infectious illness, caused by the 'Plasmodium falciparum' parasite, have ceased to be effective some time ago: the parasite has learnt to defend itself from the attack from the drugs by developing resistance.

Cristina Jiménez | 20 may 2009