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APRIL 2025 SEE FULL NEWSLETTER In a context of increasingly better but more expensive medical innovations, it is important to strengthen evidence-based decision-making. The role of the creation of ANEFiTS in beginning to settle a debt. What are the proven benefits of a new drug, vaccine, test, procedure, or biomedical device? […]

DECEMBER 2024SEE COMPLETE NEWSLETTER With more than 1.100 professionals who have completed the program, the UBA Master's in Clinical Effectiveness has impacted the way of thinking about health in our country and in Latin America. Master's Team In May 1996, while walking down Broadway and Fifth Avenue in New York City, the UBA Master's in Clinical Effectiveness was a great opportunity to learn about the importance of clinical effectiveness.

SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2024SEE FULL NEWSLETTER Ensuring that people can receive the medicines they need is an ethical and health imperative that requires the collaboration of multiple actors: governments, health institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and civil society organizations. Medicines improve quality of life, reduce mortality, and are key to

JULY – AUGUST 2024SEE FULL NEWSLETTER On the eve of World Evidence-Based Health Day (EBHC), it is necessary to highlight the importance of a comprehensive approach to address the polycrisis and transform knowledge into action. World Evidence-Based Health Day (EBHC), which is celebrated this year, is a day of great interest for health professionals and the public.

MAY – JUNE 2024SEE COMPLETE NEWSLETTER A validated questionnaire that has already been answered by around 6.000 people, revealed that 60% have a moderate or high risk of developing the disease. Worldwide, almost 1 in 10 adults between 20 and 79 years old live with diabetes. And in Argentina in particular the prevalence of

MARCH – APRIL 2024VIEW FULL NEWSLETTER A series of validation studies in 3 countries can guide public health actions to address the problem more effectively To implement actions that end global maternal mortality, which in 95% of cases affects women from low-income countries and

JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2024VIEW COMPLETE NEWSLETTER With a firm vocation for global cooperation, at the IECS we also seek to accentuate it with those developing countries that make up this group or “region” with diverse characteristics and common aspirations. The term “South-South cooperation” is used to describe the exchange of resources, technology and knowledge between countries in

NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2023VIEW COMPLETE NEWSLETTER Infections due to bacteria resistant to antibiotics double the risk of death, according to an exhaustive systematic review and meta-analysis of fifty studies in the region. Almost 100 years after the accidental discovery of penicillin, antibiotic resistance is a public health problem

SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2023VIEW COMPLETE NEWSLETTER Going beyond the classic classifications to evaluate the risk of death and long-term complications would allow us to focus efforts on those who really need it most and implement preventive interventions. By Mag. Verónica Pingray* Although the classic way of identifying newborns at higher risk of death

JUNE – AUGUST 2023VIEW FULL NEWSLETTER We opened a unit that aims to contribute to increasing the global impact of the IECS through the development of various communication strategies and materials. In a well-known lecture that he gave in Cambridge in 1959, the British physicist, novelist and civil servant Charles Percy Snow postulated that there were two cultures, that of the