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Researchers are finding heat-related illnesses can also contribute to heart disease and cognitive impairment

In this large prospective study among European adults, a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases (total and several subtypes) was observed in individuals consuming a diet with a lower nutritional value, as graded by the uNS-NPS score. This brings new evidence on the relevance of the updated nutrient profile underlying the Nutri-Score to characterize foods with a healthier nutrient profile.

Dans son édition du 6 septembre, la revue Science apporte une preuve de plus que la santé humaine et la préservation des écosystèmes dépendent l’une de l’autre. Aux États-Unis, l’effondrement des populations de chauves-souris insectivores a conduit à une baisse de la production agricole et a dû être compensé par une augmentation massive de l’usage d’insecticides. Ce qui a eu pour conséquence, dans certains comtés, d’accroître la mortalité infantile. C’est cette démonstration implacable que relaie le (...)

We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons What should we think about a doctor who uses the wrong treatment, either wilfully or through ignorance, or who uses the right treatment wrongly (such as by giving the wrong dose of a drug)? Most people would agree that such behaviour was unprofessional, arguably unethical, and certainly unacceptable. What, then, should we think about researchers who use the wrong techniques (either wilfully or in ignorance), use the right techniques wrongly, misinterpret their results, report their results selectively, cite the literature selectively, and draw unjustified conclusions? We should be appalled. Yet numerous studies of the medical literature, in both general and specialist journals, have shown that all of the above phenomena are common.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 This is surely a scandal. When I tell friends outside medicine that many papers published in medical journals are misleading because of methodological weaknesses they are rightly shocked.…

Para conseguir que el sector farmacéutico se consolide y crezca como un auténtico motor económico para el país y sea vital para mejorar la salud y bienestar de la población se...

On a Southern California spring morning in 1973, a tanker truck driver jackknifed his rig and dumped the agricultural fumigant he was transporting onto a

Samaritans charity calls on government to invest in suicide prevention as it has with smoking reduction

La Ley de Salud Pública, que prevé la búsqueda del consenso con la sociedad civil, fue elaborada con asistencia de PKF. Este foro de participación será impulsado por el Instituto Vasco de Salud Pública, cuyos estatutos fueron redactador por PwC.