Lourdes Antenor author

Based on a city where the mountain meets the sea and where antique houses line the streets, my mind is free to wonder, to wander and to write.

oxygen
COVID-19, Healthcare News
Oxygen supply impacted in low-income countries as demand surges
Lourdes Antenor Feb 26, 2021

More than half a million COVID-19 patients in LMICs estimated to need oxygen treatment every day. New assessments show US$90 million immediate funding required to

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stem cells
Healthcare News
New discovery could help reactivate aging stem cells in the brain
Lourdes Antenor Feb 25, 2021

As people get older, their neural stem cells lose the ability to proliferate and produce new neurons, leading to a decline in memory function. Researchers

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lab
Healthcare News
Lab-grown ‘mini bile-ducts’ used to repair human liver in medical first
Lourdes Antenor Feb 24, 2021

Scientists have used a technique to grow bile duct organoids – often referred to as ‘mini-organs’ – in the lab and shown that these can

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spinal cord
Healthcare News
Yale scientists repair injured spinal cord using patients’ own stem cells
Lourdes Antenor Feb 24, 2021

Intravenous injection of bone marrow-derived stem cells (MSCs) in patients with spinal cord injuries led to significant improvement in motor functions, researchers from Yale University

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air pollution
Children's Health
Air pollution is putting children at higher risk of diseases in adulthood
Lourdes Antenor Feb 23, 2021

Children exposed to air pollution, such as wildfire smoke and car exhaust, for as little as one day may be doomed to higher rates of

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dementia
Hospitals
My Grandma has Dementia: helping kids understand the disease
Lourdes Antenor Feb 22, 2021

Dementia is a syndrome – usually of a chronic or progressive nature – in which there is deterioration in cognitive function (i.e. the ability to

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Australia
Healthcare News
Australia officially starts COVID-19 vaccine rollout today
Lourdes Antenor Feb 22, 2021

Australia remains on track and begins rolling out the COVID-19 Vaccination Program starting today, February 22, 2021. Initial doses of vaccines will go to: aged

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gift
Hospitals
$80 Million gift for the health of mothers and babies
Lourdes Antenor Feb 18, 2021

Elizabeth and Bruce Dunlevie have made an $80 million gift to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the Stanford University School of Medicine to launch a bold new clinical

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Taeniasis
Healthcare News, International News
Large-scale treatment of Taeniasis shows interesting and far-reaching results
Lourdes Antenor Feb 18, 2021

Taeniasis is an intestinal infection caused by T. solium tapeworm and occurs when humans eat raw or undercooked, infected pork. A three-year pilot project for

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listeria
Healthcare News
Possible Listeria outbreak under investigation by CDC
Lourdes Antenor Feb 17, 2021

Listeria can cause severe illness (known as invasive listeriosis) when the bacteria spread beyond the gut to other parts of the body. The CDC and the

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childhood cancer
Children's Health
Childhood cancer programmes to get effective new tools
Lourdes Antenor Feb 16, 2021

A suite of tools to help countries improve diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer is being released by the World Health Organization, on International Childhood

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malnutrition
Children's Health
Acute Malnutrition threatens half of children under five in Yemen
Lourdes Antenor Feb 15, 2021

Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies warned.

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