Archivo etiqueta «Salud»
By Leonard S. Rubenstein, a visiting scholar with the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, researched health reconstruction in areas of conflict as a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace last year. William Newbrander, a senior technical officer with Management Sciences for Health, is a senior adviser to the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan. His work with the Afghan ministry is funded by USAID through the Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS) project (THE WASHINGTON POST, 29/11/09):
Amid the news about U.S. failures in Afghanistan stands… Seguir leyendo
By Philippe Douste-Blazy, the French foreign minister from 2005 to 2007, the chairman of Unitaid and a special adviser to the United Nations secretary general on innovative financing (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 24/09/09):
As leaders of the world’s largest economies gather today in Pittsburgh for the Group of 20 meeting, people in the world’s poorest countries will likely look on with a mix of hope and trepidation, wondering whether their needs will figure in the deliberations at all. The G-20 nations could help both the poor and the global economy by fully financing lagging efforts to fight poverty and disease… Seguir leyendo
By Dominic Lawson (THE TIMES, 09/08/09):
There are two reliable ways of telling if you have won an argument. The first is if your disputants switch from discussion of the facts to accusations about motives; the second, more obviously, is if they descend to mere abuse.
Alan Dangour, a nutritionist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, should therefore feel he has had an encouragingly uncomfortable week. He is the author of a peer-reviewed meta-study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that concluded, from 50 years of scientific evidence, that so-called “organic” food was no healthier than… Seguir leyendo
By David McCoy, a medical doctor and academic (THE GUARDIAN, 06/08/09):
As the global recession puts government aid budgets under pressure, and with the UN revealing a funding shortfall of nearly $5bn last week, calls are being made to expand the role of private philanthropy. There have even been suggestions that the wealthy should be given tax breaks to incentivise more private giving.
A new buzzword is “philanthrocapitalism“, a view that the talents and methods of successful capitalists should be applied to the “business” of social welfare and poverty alleviation because governments, traditional charities and NGOs are comparatively ineffective and… Seguir leyendo
Por Felipe Fernández-Armesto, historiador y ocupa desde 2005 la cátedra Príncipe de Asturias de la Tufts University en Boston (Massachusetts, EEUU). Es autor de Los conquistadores del Horizonte. Una historia mundial de la exploración (EL MUNDO, 12/05/09):
¿Cuánto vale ese halcón que tiene debajo del mostrador? Alan Bennett, el gran escritor inglés, oyó la pregunta cuando hacía cola en una freiduría del norte de Inglaterra. Desde su puesto en la larguísima cola no podía ver el mostrador, y tuvo que echar a volar su imaginación para deducir cómo podía estar aquella noble bestia atrapada en un sitio tan insólito. ¿Qué… Seguir leyendo
By James E. McWilliams, a history professor at Texas State University at San Marcos and the author of American Pests: The Losing War on Insects From Colonial Times to DDT (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17/11/08):
China’s food supply appears to be awash in the industrial chemical melamine. Dangerous levels have been detected not only in milk and eggs, but also in chicken feed and wheat gluten, meaning that melamine is almost impossible to avoid in processed foods. Melamine in baby formula has killed at least four infants in China and sickened tens of thousands more.
In response, the United States… Seguir leyendo
By William J. Catalona, medical director of the Clinical Prostate Cancer Program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He receives research support and honorariums for speaking from Beckman Coulter Inc., a manufacturer of PSA tests (THE WASHINGTON POST, 26/08/08):
Numerous media reports followed a federal task force’s announcement this month that there is insufficient medical evidence to assess the risks and benefits of prostate cancer screening in men younger than 75 and that doctors should stop testing men over age 75 [” U.S. Panel Questions Prostate Screening; ‘Dramatic’ Risks for Older… Seguir leyendo
By Richard Hoolbrooke, president of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize winner for explanatory journalism and the senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (THE WASHINGTON POST, 10/08/08):
Here’s a concept you’ve probably never heard of: “viral sovereignty.” This extremely dangerous idea comes to us courtesy of Indonesia’s minister of health, Siti Fadilah Supari, who asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations — even though they cross borders and could pose a pandemic threat to all the peoples of the world. So far… Seguir leyendo
Por Abel Mariné, catedrático de Nutrición y Bromatología de la Facultat de Farmàcia de la UB (EL PERIÓDICO, 30/05/08):
El cocinero Santi Santamaria ha desatado un debate sobre lo que es y debería ser nuestra cocina, y el papel que pueden tener en ella los aditivos alimentarios. Los resultados gastronómicos del trabajo de los cocineros son una cuestión de gustos, y las diferentes visiones sobre si la cocina debe ser tradicional o creativa e innovadora, no tienen que ser excluyentes por fuerza, del mismo modo que la pintura puede ser figurativa o abstracta por un lado, y buena o mala… Seguir leyendo
By Theodore Dalrymple, a retired prison doctor and author of Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (THE TIMES, 30/05/08):
It is unusual for politicians to face up to the obvious, but the Scottish Executive seems for once to have done so: it has recognised what has long stared it in the face, namely that dishing out methadone to drug addicts is not the answer to their problems or to the problems that they cause society. A different approach is needed.
Perhaps in 100 years historians will wonder why so many of the governing elite, from senior doctors to… Seguir leyendo
Por Fernando Point, cronista de EL MUNDO. Lleva 27 años ejerciendo la crítica de restaurantes en periódicos de ámbito nacional (EL MUNDO, 29/05/08):
Cuando el brutal encarecimiento de los alimentos provoca protestas en medio mundo y se habla ya de crisis alimentaria universal, puede parecer muy frívola una polémica entre cocineros de ringorrango que no dan de comer por menos de 100 o 150 euros. Y puede causar asombro la repercusión mediática y popular de este debate, cuando el 99% de la población no ha catado ni catará nunca un plato elaborado por Santi Santamaría o por Ferran Adrià… Pero,… Seguir leyendo
Por Josep A. Planell, director del Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya, catedrático de Ciencia de los Materiales de la UPC (LA VANGUARDIA, 24/02/08):
Habrá que hacer una resonancia para conocer el alcance de la lesión”, o bien “su rodilla será operada mediante una artroscopia”, son frases que hemos leído a menudo en las secciones deportivas de los periódicos, referidas a las lesiones de nuestros ídolos deportivos. Pero ¿a qué embarazada no se le practica al menos una ecografía?, o ¿en qué entorno familiar no hay algún miembro portador de una prótesis de rodilla, una lente intraocular, un marcapasos o un… Seguir leyendo
By Gary Taubes, the author of Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease.” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27/01/08):
The idea that cholesterol plays a key role in heart disease is so tightly woven into modern medical thinking that it is no longer considered open to question. This is the message that emerged all too clearly from the recent news that the drug Vytorin had fared no better in clinical trials than the statin therapy it was meant to supplant.
Vytorin is a combination of cholesterol-lowering drugs, one called Zetia and the other a… Seguir leyendo
Por Carlos González, pediatra. Associació Catalana Pro Alletament Matern (LA VANGUARDIA, 06/01/08):
A lo largo del siglo pasado se produjo en Occidente un abandono casi total de la lactancia materna. En los años setenta, pocas madres daban el pecho más de un mes, y casi ninguna llegaba a los seis meses.
A ello contribuyeron numerosos factores:
- Normas absurdas sin base científica ( “diez minutos cada cuatro horas…”).
- Prácticas hospitalarias que dificultaban el inicio de la lactancia: separación entre madre e hijo, salas cuna, suero glucosado, horarios rígidos…
- La industria láctea, con una contundente publicidad dirigida tanto a… Seguir leyendo
Por Raj Patel, autor de Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System [Repletos y hambrientos: los mercados, el poder y la oculta batalla por el sistema alimentario mundial]. Traducción de Jesús Cuéllar Menezo (EL PAÍS, 22/12/07):
Cuando proliferan las pruebas de que la producción industrial de carne es perjudicial para el medio ambiente, de que el planeta no puede soportarla de manera equitativa, de que es un derroche de recursos, de que acelera el calentamiento global y de que propaga todo tipo de enfermedades graves, podríamos caer en la tentación de instar a… Seguir leyendo