Smoking Worsens Prognosis For Men With Prostate Cancer: Study

Smoking Worsens Prognosis For Men With Prostate Cancer: Study

Smokers have a lower risk of developing prostate cancerbut a higher risk of die from diseaseaccording to a large population study conducted by the University of Lund (Sweden). In their work, published in the scientific journal ‘European Urology.’, the researchers followed more than 350,000 people for several decades to get these results. It has been … Read more

World Lupus Day: The importance of an early diagnosis

World Lupus Day: The importance of an early diagnosis

On the occasion of world lupus daywhich takes place this Tuesday, the president of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology (SER), José María Álvaro Gracia, has highlighted that, in the coming years, there will be “very important” advances in disease treatments. As defined by the SER, lupus is a systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseaseof unknown cause, in … Read more

A WHO report calls for “more effective” regulation of alcohol advertising on the Internet

A WHO report calls for “more effective” regulation of alcohol advertising on the Internet

A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for “more effective” regulation of alcohol advertising on the Internet, warning that young people and heavy drinkers are increasingly the target of advertising campaigns. Worldwide, 3 million people die each year as a result of the harmful use of alcohol (one every 10 seconds), … Read more

Mary Frances Attías: ‘A leap into the void’

Mary Frances Attías: ‘A leap into the void’

Based on real events, Mary Frances Attías has produced ‘A leap into the void’. It is a short film about the cruelest of violence: vicarious violence. (This type of violence is one whose objective is to harm the woman through her loved ones, especially her children, even causing their death). The story of the short … Read more

A walk through current Dominican sculpture

A walk through current Dominican sculpture

The opportunity to appreciate unique pieces -many unpublished- made by living artists and be amazed by the Creole talent in the handling of a great diversity of materials is part of what the exhibition shows “The current Dominican sculpture”inaugurated last week as part of the activities that the Freddie Cabral Museum Foundation brings this year. … Read more