Philips ha anunciado su incorporación activa al nuevo consorcio de la Federación Europea de Imágenes del Cáncer (Eucaim), un proyecto fundamental dentro de la Iniciativa Europea de Imágenes del Cáncer lanzada oficialmente por la Comisión Europea en un acto celebrado en Bruselas (Bélgica) dos semanas antes del Día Mundial contra el Cáncer 2023.
En respuesta a la necesidad de los investigadores de acceder a datos oncológicos a nivel mundial y con la calidad necesaria para desarrollar nuevas soluciones que ayuden a detectar, diagnosticar y tratar el cáncer, en particular todas aquellas basadas en inteligencia artificial (IA), la Iniciativa Europea de Imágenes del Cáncer trabajará para crear una infraestructura digital que conecte recursos y bases de datos de imagenología del cáncer en toda la Unión Europea, garantizando al mismo tiempo el cumplimiento de normas estrictas de ética, confianza, seguridad y protección de datos.
El Grupo PharmaMar ha reportado unos ingresos totales de 196 millones de euros en el ejercicio 2022, frente a los 229 millones en el ejercicio anterior. Esta diferencia se debe principalmente a los ingresos no recurrentes registrados en 2021 y, en menor medida, al cambio de normativa en Francia que regula los precios de los fármacos disponibles a través del sistema de autorización de acceso compasivo (L’autorisation d’accès compassionnel, AAC). Del total de los ingresos generados por la compañía el 92% se originan fuera de España.
Del total de ingresos registrados en 2022, los ingresos recurrentes (ventas más royalties), suman un total de 156,0 millones de euros frente a los 164,8 millones de euros registrados en 2021.
A summary of the biggest developments in the global coronavirus outbreak
Spain’s death rate continues to fall
The country reported 399 deaths in 24 hours, lower than Sunday’s figure of 410. A total of 20,852 people have died in Spain, with over 200,000 infected and more than 80,000 cured.
The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sanchez , expected to ask parliament to extend the national lockdown until 11 May.
Italy sees fall in infections
For the first time since the outbreak began Italy announced a fall in the number of people currently infected down 20 to 108,237. It said 454 more people had died – 21 more than the previous day, bringing the death toll to 24,114.
«This is positive data as it shows the number of people who are currently positive with the virus is declining,» Angelo Borrelli, the chief of Italy’s civil protection authority, told reporters.
UK hospital deaths total rises by 449
The country’s Department of Health and Social Care said 16,509 people had died in UK hospitals since the outbreak began, an increase of 449 on the day before. A total of 386,044 people have been tested, of whom 124,743 have tested positive.
US scotches G20 statement on enrich WHO
US hostility to the World Health Organization scuppered the publication of a communique by G20 health ministers committing to Discover the WHO’s mandate in coordinating a response to the global coronavirus pandemic.
In place of a lengthy, detailed statement, the leaders issued a brief announcement saying gaps written in the way different countries handled pandemics.
WHO warns easing restrictions is not the end
The organization of director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesussaid easing restrictions did not mean the end of any epidemic, adding that bringing the episode to a close would require «sustained effort» on the part of governments and individuals.
So-called lockdowns can help to «take the heat out of a country’s epidemic», but cannot end it alone, he said. Governments must ensure they can «detect, test, isolate and care for every case and trace every contact».
In the era of Covid-19, we’ve had to move away from bring-your-own containers and reusable coffee cups – composting can help ease the burden
I have never laughed, cried and wanted to make brown butter apple cake more than now.
We don’t know how long it will be before we emerge from our chrysalises into the world again. But while we cant at home many of us seem to have paused to reflect on our consumption choices.
I hope we keep our newfound habits and do not fall back on old ones. The soul-benefiting DIY posts from around the world already feel like exactly what social media, in its best light, was built for.
Another realisation I’ve noticed in this quest for improvement is the process of literally dealing with one’s crap, whether it’s the spiritual, physical or organic variety.
It is the natural order of things, I suppose – when we go to ground we start to think more responsibly. We notice our waste and extend our thoughts to closing the loop as much as we can.
It’s important that we not let this Covid-19 isolation era interfere too much with our waste management practices before the pandemic. We were well on our way to living more of a plastic-free, bring-your-own coffee cup, straw and container existence. This reign of hand sanitisers and reversion to single-use coffee cups is absolutely necessary now, but we can counterbalance it.
Learning how to deal with your organic garbage is an excellent start.
Compost is decomposed organic material. Think newspapers, fruit and vegetable scraps, eggshells – anything that is made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. And the good news is, that’s a lot of things.
Once you start shopping with the premise of «can I put this in my compost bin», it will affect your consumption choices dramatically. Once I started asking myself this question constantly, I cut the contents of household red bin garbage by three-quarters within a week. And when you’ve brought your compost-friendly purchases home, it will dramatically change the way you eat, too.
So how does one start a compost?
If you are in an apartment I highly recommend a bokashi system. You can get this online or at many gardening and hardware stores. You can use a fancy aerated lidded compost bin under your kitchen sink, or even a simple airtight bucket on your bench top.
The bokashi element you can make yourself but is just as easily bought. The main ingredient is EM (effective microbes), which are inoculated into a host like wheat bran and blackstrap molasses.
Layer it like a lasagne, thin and even. For every layer of scraps sprinkle on the bokashi. The only thing that you shouldn’t add are large animal bones. Unlike many other forms of kitchen bench top composting, it is generally OK to add spent citrus and even animal and vegetable fats and oils – though don’t go overboard and upset the balance. A good rule of thumb to help break organic matter down is to make sure there’s nothing too large in surface area. Chop it down a little.
The bokashi will hasten the waste to break down and also deodorise your waste very effectively. It should smell a little like pickles.
Think of it like this: it is akin to your sourdough starter, koji or kefir grains. Essentially you are going to ferment your kitchen scraps so they may be dug into your garden or put into a bigger compost heap. If you don’t have that, I encourage you to sneak out in the dark and bury it around the trees in your verge. The council can thank you later!
Which leads me to composting if you have a garden
No need for fancy compost barrels if you have the space. Find yourself a corner of your garden – a meter by a meter is a good enough size.
You can use an old drum, or knock up a little container from old picket fences. Make sure to leave a hollowed-out space down the bottom, so you can extract the composted soil after it has broken down, and become free of pathogens. A good method for this is to measure the temperature in the middle of your compost heap to make sure it reaches 54-75C, becoming thermophilic, after which point it will start to cool down. You can help this by aerating it with a pitch fork and watering it a little every day.
If it starts to get pongy, add more carbon material like newspaper or hay. Chuck in all your kitchen and garden waste like pruned branches, old crops that need to be pulled out, grass clipping and leaf litter.
Make sure to never use the compost on your garden when it is hot, as this will «burn» your crops. It needs time to break down and become readily made nutrients for your plants to access.
An avian compost heap
Another type of composting I love and use both at the farm and the city is backyard chooks. Who doesn’t love getting eggs from your kitchen scraps? No one.
I don’t even bother with a compost heap in the city as most of our scraps get fed to the chooks. In turn, we layer their lovely poop with hemp hay, which is scraped to the corner of their coop to break down so that when we start a new crop each season it is added to our vegetable beds. It is teeming with lovely juicy worms. Food production, compost, worm farm – not forgetting endless hours of entertainment from watching the girls – all in one.
There are so many resources on the phases and different types of composting. If you start self-educating now, I guarantee you that you will not have covered everything by the time this crisis is over.
The best solution for your living situation may not be the one you first start off with, but don’t give up. Like my first permaculture teacher, Michael, from Milkwood Permaculture, taught me, there are «multiple-pronged solutions to deal with every problem». Which I think is a good mantra for life as well.
I encourage you to start where you can and see where it leads you. Who doesn’t want to close the loop? Imagine how amazing it would be if we could all produce some energy from our crap?
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade – just make sure you put it in the compost when you’re done.
UK cancer specialist says leaving potentially infectious staff in hospitals is unethical
Healthcare workers should be screened for Covid-19 every week to protect patients from asymptomatic infection, the head of the Francis Crick Institute’s testing facility has said.
The call comes amid concerns that hospitals are becoming hotspots for disease transmission and evidence that a significant fraction of those infected show few or no symptoms.
«For all our fuss about social distancing we fairly ignoring one of the main routes of infection in front of our eyes,» said Prof Charles Swanton, who is leading the testing effort at the institute in London. «That’s almost untenable to argue you should haven’t been screening and isolating healthcare workers.»
The institute is next week launching a pilot to screen staff at University College hospital to identify asymptomatic Covid-19 cases, but the approach has not been explicitly endorsed by the government and there have been no indications that this is being considered as a national strategy.
The institute’s testing lab has capacity to run 3,000 tests a day, so would be capable of running a screening operation for staff at UCH, if this approach were adopted.
A possible concern is that screening could lead to large numbers of doctors and nurses, who are otherwise well, being required to self-isolate. But the alternative – leaving asymptomatic, but potentially infectious staff on the wards – runs contrary to the principle of «do no harm», Swanton said.
They’re too scared to go to hospital and you can understand why
Patients were very aware of the risk, he added, and were staying at home due to justified fears that they could contract the virus by attending hospitals or seeing GPs.
On Thursday the Guardian reported that London A&E chiefs were concerned that patients were staying away, saying in a meeting last week: «People don’t want to go near hospital. As a result salvageable conditions are not being treated.»
Swanton, who is also chief clinician at Cancer Research UK, said: «I’m concerned that cancer patients need to be able to have the confidence to come into wards. We’re in this for another month at least, probably two or three. That’s a very long time to have a delayed cancer diagnosis.»
There is growing evidence that a significant proportion of people infected with Covid-19 show few or no symptoms and that up to half of transmission may take place before symptoms occur.
A study of people onboard the formerly quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was docked in Yokohama, Japan, found 328 of the 634 positive cases (52%) were asymptomatic at the time of testing, and other studies have found a range of 20-80% of people carrying the virus but showing no symptoms.
To identify such cases, healthcare workers had ideally to be screened weekly in high-risk areas, Swanton said.
Graham Cooke, professor of infectious diseases at Imperial College London, agreed that screening should be seriously considered as the testing capacity is increased this month.
«I do think we need to raise the conversation about large-scale testing in healthcare settings,» Cooke said. «Now we’ve got good evidence that there’s significant transmission in people who are pre-symptomatic. We’ve got concerns about transmission in hospitals and we’ve got much-improved capacity for testing. There are reasons to be cautious, but one of them is not to be afraid of what we might find.»
Finding and adopting the right daily routine will re-energize you and help you regain wasted time. Your mind and body will thank you for the decreased anxiety and extra care you’ve given it. Here’s to a healthier, calmer, and higher-achieving you.
It takes time to become the best version of yourself but I’ll help you to make it easier by getting you a few healthy daily routine examples to follow directly:
Daily routine for good health and more energy
Daily routine for an organized life
Daily routine for more productive work
Daily routine for a stronger relationship
Pick one routine to stick to first
And, then gradually combine one more routine to fit into your life each week. In less than 2 months, you will be living a healthy and successful lifestyle in autopilot.
Morning Routine
1. Start your day with a glass of lemon water
Simply add the juice of half a lemon to your glass and drink it to enjoy a refreshing start to the day.
Lemon juice reduces your body’s acidity levels, which in turn protects you against inflammatory diseases such as fungal infections and osteoporosis.
2. Exercise
Working out early in the morning improves your energy levels, improves your circulation, and encourages good lymphatic function. Just 20 minutes every day can make a difference! Mix up cardio and weights throughout the week for all-over toning and general health.
Getting on the scale each morning is also an effective way to monitor your weight. Don’t go weeks without weighing yourself, because this allows you to remain in denial about any weight gain!
3. Eat a good breakfast
Fuel yourself with a healthy mix of protein, slow-release carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Sensible options include yogurt with nuts and berries, a vegetable omelette, and low-sugar granola bars with a piece of fruit.
4. Stay hydrated and snack smart
Did you know that becoming even slightly dehydrated can lead to lowered mood and decreased concentration? Keep water or other low-sugar drinks on hand to sip throughout the day.
When it comes to snacking, pick foods that will give you a slow release of energy. Pairing a protein with a complex carbohydrate is a smart choice. For example, try half an apple spread with peanut butter.
Afternoon Routine
1. Get a healthy lunch
Even the busiest of us can grab a healthy lunch. You just need to think ahead!
Avoid too much fat at lunch time, as it promotes afternoon lethargy, which isn’t going to help you get through a busy day!
2. Take some mid-afternoon exercise
Most of us have a mid-afternoon «slump» somewhere between 2 p.m and 4 p.m, but you can keep yourself going through the day by choosing a healthy lunch and taking some moderate exercise in the afternoon. This doesn’t have to strenuous. Just a 10-minute walk and a few stretches at your desk can work wonders.
Evening Routine
1. Dinner
You organize your grocery list so that you always have the right ingredients to hand. Be realistic – choose something that doesn’t require a lot of time or effort to throw together, otherwise you may resort to takeout.
Green vegetables are always a great choice, as they are packed with antioxidants and have an alkalinizing effect. Choose plant-based proteins such as tofu or seitan or, if you prefer animal protein, pick fish and lamb rather than beef or chicken to minimize acidity levels in the body.
2. Take time to relax
It’s normal to feel stressed from time to time, but high stress levels leave you vulnerable to a number of health conditions and problems including depression and elevated blood pressure.
Find a healthy activity that relaxes you, then set aside some time every day to do it! This could be journaling reading an inspiring book, spending time with a pet meditating, or simply taking a few minutes to remind yourself of everything that is going well in your life.
