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By Michael Rosenbaum, MD and George Bray, MD In 1962, the noted physiologist Edwin Astwood, MD, PhD, wrote “Obesity is a disorder which, like venereal disease, is blamed upon the patient. The finding that treatment doesn’t work is ascribed to lack of fortitude.” At that time, about 13% of U.S. adults had obesity (defined as...
By Alexandra Jaffe The United States served notice Monday that it will keep existing COVID-19 travel restrictions on international travel in place for now due to concerns about the surging infection rate because of the delta variant. It was the latest sign that the White House is having to recalibrate its thinking around the coronavirus...
Hospital intensive care units in seven of Ecuador’s 24 provinces, including Azuay, are at 100 percent capacity, the national Emergency Operations Committee reports. The COE said Sunday that about half of the units are occupied by Covid-19 patients, the number of which is increasing, it says. In addition to Azuay, hospitals in Carchi, Chimborazo, El...
By John Keeble Cuenca’s Andean musicians, forced off stage by the pandemic, are emerging Saturday, July 31, in an online revival of Mi Cuenca Canta! – and, thanks to the generosity of personal donors, they are being paid to perform for the first time in over a year. The four-hour concert, with three or four...
For the second consecutive week, Ecuador ranked first among all Latin American countries in administering Covid-19 vaccines per capita, with an average of 300,000 a day receiving the jab. Last week, the country led the world in the category, according to the World Health Organization. Ecuador’s Health Ministry credits the high vaccination rate with news...
Richard Carapaz brought home the gold medal for Ecuador in the men’s Olympic road race in Tokyo on Saturday in a pulsating finale that saw the climber drop his main rivals on the last two climbs. Carapaz’s prize was only Ecuador’s second gold medal in Olympic competition history. Cuencano speedwalker Jefferson Perez won gold at...
By John Keeble GRACE, the Cuenca foundation set up to help mostly Venezuelan and Colombian refugees, is seeing a steady flow of children and adults seeking medical and dental help as the city’s hospitals grapple with Covid disruption. Children under 12 form the bulk of patients, and GRACE is now trying to raise enough funds...
By David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick Vaccine mandates are controversial. They’re also effective. Before Houston Methodist became one of the first hospital systems in the U.S. to mandate Covid-19 vaccines, about 85 percent of its employees were vaccinated. After the mandate, the share rose to about 98 percent, with the remaining 2 percent receiving...
President Guillermo Lasso is considering the release of 5,000 non-violent prisoners to reduce prison overcrowding. The plan follows Wednesday night’s gang violence at the national prisons in Guayaquil and Latacunga that left 22 dead, including a policeman, and 70 injured. In an interview with CNN, Lasso called the situation in the prisons “deplorable and in...
Jueves, 22/7/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – La Sinfónica interpretará la música de videojuegos (The Symphony will perform video game music) – The symphony will play music from video games such as Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, and Zelda. The show will be in the Teatro de la Casa de la...
Author’s note: Time is running out for Ecuador to save its Amazon rainforests — areas which have 10,000 times the biodiversity of the Galapagos islands. Ethno-ecologist Adam Gebb looks at the problems and possibilities in a seven-part series. This article explores Ecuadors critical opportunity to create a biocorridor network that could conserve the country’s legendary...
By Gabriel Crossley China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said. The WHO this month proposed a second phase of studies into the...
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