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Innovation and science for all! Explora RM Norte convenes multiple educational and scientific initiatives for this year
The North Metropolitan Region prepares for a year full of discoveries and learnings, thanks to the various educational calls promoted by the Explora North Metropolitan Region Associative Project of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and innovation, led by the Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS ) of the University of Chile and its Faculty of […]
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Do we want to live so many years?? Advances in science to prolong human life under the gaze of three national awards
Illustration Camila Cruz According to some of the less optimistic predictions, It is very likely that the youngest population that exists today is alive, at least, 100 years. Maybe, 200... Maybe more. How long do we want to live? How much is enough? Three National Awards, one of Natural Sciences, another for History and another for Applied and Technological Sciences, […]
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Jan
Request to declare an oncology emergency in Antofagasta due to alarming mortality rates
The Medical College of the area proposes to declare an oncological health emergency due to the alarming numbers of cancer deaths. In addition, scarcity of resources and professional personnel as critical elements in the health crisis. The Antofagasta region faces a harsh reality with almost 135 deaths from cancer per 100,000 inhabitants, situating it as […]
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Jan
Andrew Quest, University of Chile academic: “There is no awareness in the population about the increased risk of cancer due to obesity”
He holds a PhD in Biochemistry and is the director of the Center for Exercise Studies, Metabolism and Cancer (CEMC), will talk about the relationship between the two diseases at the Summer School in Obesity, event that will be held in Talca on Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd of this month. -The activity will bring together scientists from Chile and Mexico who […]