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More than 2 million adolescents still cannot access the vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) due to the delay of the Ministry of Health (Minsa) in regulating Law No. 31883, which established the extension of this dose up to 18 years of age on September 30 of last year. Due to the lack of this regulation … Read more
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The Ministry of Health (Sometimes), through the National Institute of Health (INS), reports that the lineage of the COVID-19 called XBB.1.5, detected since December of last year, continues to increase, and currently represents almost half of the samples whose genomes are sequenced. So far there is no evidence that the lineage XBB.1.5 of the COVID-19 … Read more
Breast cancer can occur in several malignancies within the same breast, so the entire breast is removed; with treatment it could be preserved Many women with two or three breast cancers may have a glimmer of hope with a lumpectomy instead of removing the entire breast, suggests a new study. More patients with multiple tumors … Read more
Objective: Know the limitations students have encountered in their undergraduate surgery course during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: Through an online questionnaire, students were asked to evaluate the surgery degree course, the limits encountered during the course, both those perceived by themselves and the limits they perceived in the teachers. Questions were asked about the overall … Read more
Statistics show children as one of the populations with the fewest records for infections with Covid-19. A study published recently by the specialized journal Nature reports that the scientific community is “puzzled” by this trend. In the case of Colombia, the National Institute of Health (INS) records that as of December 12 there have been … Read more
With the death of 16 people infected by COVID-19 in Magdalena, of which their comorbidities are under study, the number of fatalities in the Department arrived at 588, as announced by the National Institute of Health (INS), in the report corresponding to Saturday, August 22. According to the INS report, In the District of Santa … Read more
Under a cloudy sky, the warm breeze that invades the streets of Repelón and singing the hymns of Colombia and the Municipality, dozens of inhabitants of this municipality paid a heartfelt tribute to its mayor Eduardo Polo Mendoza, the country’s first president who is a victim of the Covid-19. The measures implemented by the pandemic … Read more
Under a cloudy sky, the warm breeze that invades the streets of Repelón and singing the hymns of Colombia and the Municipality, dozens of inhabitants of this municipality paid a heartfelt tribute to its mayor Eduardo Polo Mendoza, the country’s first president who is a victim of the Covid-19. The measures implemented by the pandemic … Read more
For about ten days, Pablo Suárez was fighting for his life against an invisible enemy on a lonely intensive care stretcher in a clinical center in Barranquilla. At 68 years old, despite the physical and spiritual strength that always characterized him, he could not win the battle against this disease, which extinguished his existence on … Read more
Three people lost their lives because of the coronavirus in Magdalena. The health authorities announced that two of the cases occurred in Santa Marta, while the other took place in the municipality of Sitionuevo., on the banks of the river and a few kilometers from Barranquilla. According to the official report, in Sitionuevo a 76-year-old … Read more