Category : Salud

Jessica Berman January 06, 2016 The goal of eradicating polio worldwide is within sight.  But public health officials must make sure that vaccines administered after that point cannot cause a recurrence of the disease. Researchers in Britain have come up with a safe strain that would prevent polio reinfection. Polio vaccines are stockpiled for use […]Load more...

Reuters January 05, 2016 9:38 AM BEIJING—China will not require prospective parents to obtain approval to have two children under the new «two-child policy», in what appears to be a further relaxation of reproductive controls in the world’s most populous country.A document released by the central government and ruling Communist Party on Tuesday said families […]Load more...

When Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini visited his company’s offices around the country, he was struck by the struggles of some of his employees — such as single moms working in his call centers who used food stamps or had to enroll their children in Medicaid. So Bertolini decided to raise Aetna’s minimum wage from $12 an […]Load more...

Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, we have used antibiotics against a host of infections. But now, doctors are finding that more and more bacteria are resistant to even the strongest antibiotics available. In 2015, the World Health Organization warned that we are heading toward a «post-antibiotic era,» when more people will die from […]Load more...