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Director of the National Centre for Tropical Medicine (CNMT) at the Carlos III Health Institute

PhD in Pharmacy, Professor of Human Physiology at the University of Navarra, member of the CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity, Carlos III Health Institute and IDISNA (Navarra)

Head of the Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Surveillance Group of the National Epidemiology Centre.

Researcher at the Reference and Research Laboratory in Mycology, National Microbiology Centre, Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Senior Scientist at the Health Institute Carlos III

HIV, STI and hepatitis B and C Surveillance Unit. National Centre of Epidemiology, Health Institute Carlos III

Researcher in social epidemiology, public health and biostatistics 

Researcher with a PhD employed at the National Epidemiology Centre of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII)

Research scientist and member of the Department of Climate Change, Health and the Urban Environment at the Carlos III Health Institute

Senior Scientist at the Special Pathogens Research and Reference Laboratory of the National Microbiology Centre of the Carlos III Health Institute

Director and Research Scientist at the Institute for Rare Diseases Research (IIER), Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII)

 

Researcher at the National Center for Microbiology - Carlos III Health Institute

Senior scientist at the Reference Laboratory for Influenza and Respiratory Viruses of the National Microbiology Centre.

Scientific researcher at the National Epidemiology Centre - Carlos III Institute of Health

 

Head of the Respiratory Virus and Influenza Research Group of the Carlos III Health Institute

Full professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Oviedo, Scientific Director of the Principality of Asturias Biobank (BioPA) and Coordinator of the Organoid hub of the ISCIII Biomodels and Biobanks platform

Senior Scientist, Immunology Laboratory, Carlos III Health Institute

Research Professor at IDIBAPS-Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and Scientific Director of CIBEREHD - Carlos III Health Institute

Researcher in Vaccine-Preventable Disease Epidemiology at the National Centre of Epidemiology of the Health Institute Carlos III and member of CIBERESP

Scientific researcher at the Reference and Research Laboratory for Immunopreventable Viral Diseases of the National Microbiology Centre - Carlos III Health Institute

Research professor and member of the Departament on Climate Change, Health and the Urban Environment at the Carlos III Health Institute

Senior Researcher, Head of the Enterovirus and Viral Gastroenteritis Unit (Reference and Research Laboratory for Immunopreventable Viral Diseases), Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Head of the Central Scientific-Technical Units and Head of the Veterinary Unit of the Carlos III Health Institute

Head of the National Reference Laboratory for Gastroenteritis-Producing Viruses of the National Microbiology Centre - Carlos III Health Institute

Postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Raras Health Institute Carlos III

Virologist at the Reference Laboratory for Influenza and Respiratory Viruses of the National Microbiology Centre - Carlos III Health Institute

Cancer epidemiologist and Director General of the Carlos III Health Institute

Researcher at the National Epidemiology Centre of the Carlos III Health Institute, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Alcalá.

Researcher at the National Epidemiology Centre (CNE-ISCIII)

Scientific researcher at the Cancer and Environmental Epidemiology Unit of the National Epidemiology Centre, Carlos III Health Institute, member of CIBERESP and co-coordinator of the Cancer Epidemiological Surveillance Sub-programme - VICA of CIBERESP

Senior Researcher at the Carlos III Health Institute, Head of the Neuro-oncology Unit at the Chronic Diseases Research Unit (UFIEC-ISCIII)

ICREA Research Professor, Director of Andero Lab and the Rodent Behavioral Core at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and researcher in the Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences at the UAB and at the Carlos III Health Institute, CIBERSAM

Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Valencia, and researcher at the CIBER Centre for the Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN) at the Carlos III Institute

Researcher at the Reference Laboratory for Influenza and Respiratory Viruses at the Centro Nacional de Microbiología - Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Medical Epidemiologist at the National Epidemiology Centre - Carlos III Health Institute

Researcher in the Viral Biology laboratory of the Carlos III Health Institute

Senior Scientist at the Carlos III Health Institute, in the area of ​​Environmental Toxicology of the National Center for Environmental Health

HIV, STI and hepatitis B and C Surveillance Unit. National Centre of Epidemiology, Health Institute Carlos III

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Patients receiving organ transplants often need to be treated with long-term immunosuppressants to reduce the likelihood of rejection, which has numerous side effects. An international team has shown in crab macaque monkeys that, in the case of heart transplantation, the use of these drugs could be avoided if combined with a kidney transplant from the same donor. The results are published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. 

Trump

As announced, the new US president, Donald Trump, has signed on his first day in office an executive order for the United States to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. This is the second time Trump has withdrawn his country from the signatory states of the most important climate change agreement, as he did in 2020.

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The new US president, Donald Trump, announced on his first day that the country will leave the World Health Organisation (WHO) within the next twelve months. The reasons behind the decision, according to him, are the ‘mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic and other global health crises’, as well as ‘disproportionate payments compared to other countries’ dues’.

Colon Cancer

A team of researchers has analyzed data from the World Health Organization to estimate the incidence of colorectal cancer in 50 countries around the world. Their conclusions, based on records up to 2017, are that in most high-income countries its incidence continues to increase in young people (under 50 years of age). This increase, however, is not observed in Spain. The results are published in the journal The Lancet Oncology.   

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The seventh Annual Report of the COSCE Transparency Agreement, prepared by the European Animal Research Association, which analyses transparency in the use of animals for scientific experimentation in Spain in 2023, was presented today. According to the document, transparency is consolidated among the signatory institutions -168 in 2024- and all of them publish a statement on their websites on the use of animals. Public mention of the number and species used stands at 47%, compared to 38% the previous year.

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The relative risk of being born with a major heart defect is 36% in babies conceived using assisted reproductive techniques, such as in vitro fertilisation, compared to newborns not using these techniques, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal. The absolute risk was 1.84% versus 1.15%. The research, which included more than seven million babies born in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, also shows that the increased risk is especially associated with multiple births, which are more common in assisted reproduction.
 

 

 

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A review published in Science estimates that 2 % of rodent species are hyper-reservoirs, hosting and transmitting more than three pathogens to humans, including Lyme disease, Lassa fever and plague. In addition, the authors estimate that 10 % of rodents are reservoirs for one to three pathogens. These are especially so-called synanthropic species - animals that live close to humans and are able to adapt to these environments - such as black rats, Norway rats and house mice.

Heat

August 2003 was the month of the heatwave that killed 70,000 people in Europe. In France, with 14,800 deaths, the Minister of Health resigned, and in Spain, with 6,500, the first prevention plan for the extreme heat was put in motion, which came into force in 2004. Two decades later, campaigns and preventive measures in social services, nursing homes, and hospitals have generated the so-called "heat culture," and although temperatures continue to rise due to climate change, this adaptation is limiting its impact.

wine

Studies associating the consumption of low amounts of alcohol with health benefits are not of good scientific quality, says a meta-analysis pooling the findings of 107 previous papers. For example, studies may use a reference group of older adults who have given up or limited alcohol for health reasons. Compared to those who continue to drink, the latter appear to be in better health, notes the article, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

calima

A team led by the Carlos III Health Institute has analyzed how short-term concentrations of particles associated with wildfires and Saharan dust incursions influence hospital admissions in Spain due to mental and behavioral disorders. The results were explained in a briefing organized by the Science Media Centre Spain.