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Associate Professor of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Valencia; Chief Physician of the Medical Oncology Department, Valencia University General Hospital Consortium
Professor of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Valencia
Professor of Genetics at the University of Valencia and researcher of the Genomics and Health Area at the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research of the Valencian Community (Fisabio)
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Department of Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), University of Valencia - CSIC
Group Leader of the Functional Inorganic Materials Team (FuniMAT) at the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) and senior lecturer in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Valencia.
Professor of Journalism and POLIBIENESTAR researcher at the University of Valencia
Researcher at the Climate, Atmosphere and Oceans Laboratory (Climatoc-Lab) at the Desertification Research Centre (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GVA)
Educational sociologist and lecturer in Sociology of Education at the University of Valencia
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Valencia and researcher at the CIBER Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN)
The Ministry of Health has announced the purchase of 10 proton therapy equipment for public hospitals of the National Health System in seven autonomous communities. They will be used to treat tumours, especially in paediatric patients. The cost of the equipment will be financed by the Amancio Ortega Foundation.
This week we celebrate not only the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs, but also Run 3: the Large Hadron Collider is back on line to collect a huge amount of data that opens the door to the discovery of new phenomena that could solve unsolved mysteries, such as understanding what makes up the dark matter that makes up 25% of the universe.
An international team of researchers has captured the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. The results are published today in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
In the covid-19 pandemic, there is no evidence to justify closing classrooms to interrupt transmission and protect the health of children. On the other hand, there is evidence of the harm caused to them by dropping out of school.
In recent days, several countries have modified the quarantine times for close contacts and the isolation of infected people, while others are already considering it. Spain has announced that it will reduce these periods to 7 days, both for people who have tested positive in a test and for close contacts who require quarantine (in the case of our country, unvaccinated people).
The discovery of the Omicron variant has led to the cancellation of flights to several African countries, while many countries are beginning to detect cases among travellers from countries such as South Africa, but also Nigeria and Egypt. Spain has just announced the first detected case of Omicron, which corresponds to a traveller who had visited South Africa. What measures should be taken to stop the spread of this variant? Is it even possible?
An analysis of 602 community contacts of 471 covid-19 index cases indicates that the secondary attack rate (SAR) for household contacts exposed to the delta variant is 25% in fully vaccinated individuals, compared to 38% in unvaccinated individuals.