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Learn About Good Practices that Reduce Your Risk of Cancer
In Costa Rica about 40 cases of cancer are diagnosed per day and every two hours a person dies from this disease. Worldwide, the victims of this condition in 2020 were 10 million people, becoming the second cause of...
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The Lack of Oxygen Drama for COVID Patients in Latin America
In Latin America, the second region in the world with the most deaths from Coronavirus, the same scene of despair is repeated. Hundreds and hundreds of people standing in endless lines or paying high prices for an oxygen tank...
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Tico Health Authorities Do Not Contemplate Bringing the Russian Vaccine to the Country
International media indicate that, apparently in the previous January, Russia submitted the application for approval of the use of the vaccine against COVID-19 to the EMA
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Breast and Prostate Cancer, the Most Common in Costa Rica According to New Study
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) reported that the cancers with the greatest impact in the country are breast, in women, and prostate, in men, while every two hours there are three new diagnoses of some type of...
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Smoke-free Alternatives Seek to be Considered in Efforts to Reduce Tobacco-Related Illnesses in Costa Rica
Various smoke-free alternatives for smokers - such as e-cigarettes - want to be recognized for their efforts to help reduce tobacco-associated diseases, including lung cancer. However, its manufacturers and users consider that the policies and campaigns against it are...
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Big News Coming From the Canadian Psychedelic Association
Health Canada | Santé Canada has opened a public consultation called the Special Access Program (SAP). The Special Access Program allows healthcare professionals to request drugs that are not available for sale in #Canada in cases where a patient...
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This is How Experts Explain the Drop in COVID-19 Cases in Costa Rica
January 2021 showed a drop in the statistics of both infections and the demand for intensive care beds for COVID-19 cases. Even the reproduction rate - known as R0 - is at its lowest point since the previous April,...
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This is How Sanitary Restrictions Will Apply in Costa Rica during February
As of Monday, February 1st, the update of sanitary measures against the Pandemic will apply, which continues with vehicle circulation restrictions and other controls to businesses openings. The authorities insist that the plan responds to the strategy "Costa Rica...
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“Hey Tico, get active!” Government Presents Program to Promote Sports and Physical Fitness
Minister Solano explained that the program includes the implementation of different modalities of physical activity in the cantons
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10 Laboratories Will be Able to Perform Antigen Tests in Costa Rica, a Requirement to Enter the United States
A total of 10 laboratories received endorsement in Costa Rica to test antigens of the novel Coronavirus, one of the requirements to enter the United States. The Ministry of Health released on the afternoon of January 29 the complete...
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A Young Costa Rican´s Legacy Changed the Way We Deal With Adolescent Cancer in the Country
Seventeen years ago, a 19-year-old young man named Daniel Arce Bobadilla passed away after four years of battling bone...