The pharmaceutical company Janssen of Johnson & Johnson began phase 3 trials of its vaccine against COVID-19, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced this Saturday. “I congratulate the Janssen company that began phase 3 of its vaccine project in Mexico. Welcome and we wish them the best of success in their work,” he posted on his Twitter account. With this, there are already two trials of this type being carried out in Mexico, along with that of the pharmaceutical company CanSino Biologics. Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary of Health, announced in September that Janssen was seeking to carry out a trial of this…
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The United Kingdom, which will begin this week with the first immunizations of its population, plans to test Pfizer’s vaccine in combination with AstraZeneca’s, in order to determine if it will generate a better response against the coronavirus. Studies aimed at determining whether using the two injections together can improve immunity are planned for next year, according to the UK Vaccine Working Group. The group unveiled the plans when it published a report on its work so far, which includes deals for 357 million doses from seven manufacturers and investments at three sites to expand the country’s manufacturing capacity. The…
Tatiana Clouthier will be the new Secretary of the Economy, announced this Monday President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his morning conference. This is because Graciela Márquez Colín , current Secretary of the Economy, will be proposed by AMLO to the Governing Board of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). The changes do not have to do with “a gender quota. It has to do with the need to have men and women characterized by honesty in public service,” said the national president.We tell you in 13 points the trajectory of Clouthier. Tatiana Clouthier Carrillo was born on…
Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, assured this Monday that it is not proven that molnupiravir stops the transmission of COVID-19 in humans. “In 24 hours (molnupiravir) reduces the spread of the virus in animal species, in ferrets. (…) There are still no clinical phases (in humans). It is in a phase of experimentation in animals ”, assured the doctor in Epidemiology. “Originally, the drug was designed as a possible drug for the prevention of influenza,” he continued. On December 5, Georgia State University researchers claimed that the drug was able to suppress the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2…
The oceans are becoming more acidic, Everest has more oxygen and this year we saw an unusual hurricane season. No matter how often we break a global temperature record … it never fails to be shocking. Nineteen of the 20 hottest years on record have occurred in this century , which is only 20 years old. The last six years have been the hottest in the last 140 years . This year it will extend that race to seven and may even top the list, according to a recent analysis by CarbonBrief.org. The extra trapped heat makes its way through…
An exhibition of works of art by Jean-Luc Mylayne opens at the Van Gogh Museum On the occasion of the presentation ‘Van Gogh Inspires: Jean-Luc Mylayne’, the French artist has selected three relevant photographic works. From September 11, 2020 to February 14, 2021. With his love of nature, Van Gogh is an important source of inspiration for Jean-Luc Mylayne Both artists strive to express the connection they feel with nature in their works. The use of light, landscape colors and foreground details play an important role in the compositions. While Mylayne’s slow and leisurely approach contrasts with the energy and…
Hispanic voters have become the largest minority in the United States this year. Winning their vote in some key states may mean turning the polls upside down, the ultimate victory. With 32 million people entitled to vote, 13.3% of the US electorate, they have exceeded the number of registered African Americans, according to calculations by the Pew Research Center. And the number does not stop growing every year. The Latino vote, however, is not a bloc. Among the total of Latinos with the right to vote in the country, 59% are Mexican; 14% are Puerto Rican; 5% of Cuban origin…
When Robert Fisk traveled to the Sahrawi camps in Tindouf (Algeria) in 1997, coinciding with the visit of former US Secretary of State James Baker, he was already a saint of the international press. His grimace of skepticism at the young journalists who escorted him under the canopy of admiration gave by now the failure of the umpteenth UN mediation between the Polisario Front and Morocco. The veteran British correspondent, who has covered nearly every conflict in the Middle East over the past four decades, died of a sudden stroke in Dublin, his homeland of choice, on Sunday after he…
Being Diego Maradona and having only one body sounds like an unequal fight. The greatest idol of Argentine soccer, who turned 60 this Friday, October 30 and showed a deteriorated physical version was admitted this Monday night to a clinic in La Plata, 60 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires. While waiting for an official medical report, around the current Gymnastics coach they let a psychic relapse transcend. “I saw him reluctant,” said his personal doctor, Leopoldo Luque, who ruled out an emergency case. “It was an emotionally complicated week for him, with a lot of pressure,” Luque told the…
Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, director of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra and visiting professor at Harvard University, presents his latest book Science and conscience to resist , written with the scientific journalist Marisol Guisasola. The studies of Martínez-González (Málaga, 63 years old) have contributed to the advice given from Harvard to Michelle Obama, the former first lady of the United States, to improve public health and nutrition in her country. Martínez-González has led the Predimed network of researchers, the largest trial carried out so far in Europe on the effects of the Mediterranean…