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An IECS study indicates that banning the manufacture and sale of foods containing these fats will prevent 5 acute coronary events per year. On December 10th, an amendment to the Argentine Food Code came into effect, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of foods containing industrially produced trans fats*. Replacing these fats […]

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 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

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