Bulletin No. 90 The regulations of the Humanized Childbirth Law will lead to better practices. The role of continuous training and critical review of benefits by health professionals. “Doctors: These results already exceed the exclusive scope of medicine. We consider that they are people's rights.” That's me
Humanized birth and the responsibility to improve care See more "
The global pricing policy applied to innovative drugs leaves Latin American countries in a dead end. Medicines are essential goods for public health, but not everyone has access to them. How to improve access? In Latin America, finding an answer to this question is crucial, since the WHO estimates that
Access to medicines puts the health of the population at stake See more "
The veil began to be lifted in July 2009, when a Japanese pediatrician posted a comment that the 2008 version of the current Cochrane review on NI[2] was based primarily on data from a single document: a published pharmaceutical industry-funded review. in 2003 in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine[3]. Then the
An emblematic case of what open science means in health See more "
FROM BULLETIN No. 87 – March / April 2015 All those who ever stop to watch a television cooking program will be able to observe how lightly cooks suggest flavoring foods by adding a pinch of salt. It is time to warn that if we consume daily the approximately 0,5 grams that that little pile has
As we start this year we look back and are proud to see that the IECS really grew during 2014. Last year we conducted almost 50 new research projects. The work of our researchers was reflected in 35 publications indexed in Medline (some of them in high-impact journals, such as The Lancet and BMJ)
Balance of a year of strong institutional growth See more "
An IECS study indicates that the prohibition of manufacturing and marketing foods with these fats will prevent 5 acute coronary events per year. On December 10, a modification came into effect in the Argentine Food Code that prohibits the manufacturing and marketing of foods that contain trans fats. industrial origin*. Replace these fats
The elimination of trans fats, a food policy that will save thousands of lives See more "
At the 67th World Health Assembly, the need to add these treatments to the health plan was reinforced. We analyze what is happening in the country. For more than 20 years, World Hospice and Palliative Care Day has been celebrated on the second Saturday in October. That day, organizations from different places
The situation of palliative care in Argentina: a debt in health services See more "
The Lancet magazine published a series of articles pointing out the lack of prioritization of investment in biomedical research. At the IECS we analyze the implications of this trend. The Lancet opened a debate on waste in biomedical research in January of this year (1-5). The published articles analyze that the funds
The waste of funds for health research See more "
13% of deaths in Latin America are the result of diseases attributable to tobacco. In Argentina, the figure amounts to 40.591 deaths per year. An investigation coordinated by the IECS showed that if the price of cigarettes were increased by 50% in Latin America, between 17 and 45 thousand deaths per year would be avoided. No
Death, illness and tobacco tax situation in Latin America See more "
Prevention, early diagnosis, appropriate treatments, disease control and monitoring are the keys to reversing the current panorama. The analysis of the hospital discharge database of our country's public system showed that 27 percent of hospitalizations could be avoided. In adults, among the most frequent hospitalizations that could
Avoidable hospitalizations, a pending issue for our health system See more "
