This guideline covers diagnosing, monitoring and managing any type of primary brain tumour or
brain metastases in people aged 16 or over. It aims to improve diagnosis and care, including
standardising the care people have, how information and support are provided, and palliative care.
In January 2021, we...
Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) requires multiple courses of intensive chemotherapy. Each course of chemotherapy destroys a child's white blood cells, called neutrophils, leaving the child in a state of neutropenia for 2 or more weeks. During neutropenia, the child is at significant risk for life-...
Taenia solium is a zoonotic tapeworm found globally but with particularly high transmission and hyperendemnicity in parts of Latin America, South and South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Depending on its life cycle, it causes two distinct presentations in humans: taeniasis and (neuro) cysticercosis. A...
El panel priorizó la posibilidad de una reducción significativa en la mortalidad por sobre la incertidumbre en los efectos
de la intervención (muy baja certeza en la evidencia), los efectos adversos del tratamiento y la carga del tratamiento en
términos de utilización de recursos necesarios para imp...
La enfermedad por el Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) es una patología respiratoria de humanos producida por SARS-CoV-2. El 11 de marzo de 2020 la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) declaró al COVID-19 como una pandemia, y desde ese momento se han reportado en Argentina más de 3.000.000 casos confirma...
WHO promotes a public health approach to programming and delivering antiretroviral therapy (ART), which has enabled access to treatment and care for people living with HIV to be scaled up in resource-limited settings.
The 2016 WHO consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating an...
Plague has killed millions of people during the past 25 centuries, and the disease reappeared in several countries during the 1990s. Consequently, plague was categorized as a re-emerging disease. Human plague outbreaks continue to be reported, including an outbreak of pneumonic plague in Madagascar in 20...
More people die each year from cardiovascular diseases than from any other cause. Over three
quarters of heart disease and stroke-related deaths occur in low-income and middle-income countries.
Hypertension – or elevated blood pressure – is a serious medical condition that significantly increases the...
La demencia se conceptualiza como un síndrome caracterizado principalmente por el declive de la cognición,
aunque no únicamente de la memoria, que interfiere con el funcionamiento cotidiano de las personas [1]. Es un
cuadro de presentación progresiva, más frecuente en personas de edad más avanzada,...
La incidencia del carcinoma de células renales (CCR) ha aumentado en las últimas décadas, siendo a nivel mundial
el sexto cáncer más frecuentemente diagnosticado en hombres y el décimo en mujeres (1). Sin embargo, la
sobrevida ha mejorado en las últimas tres décadas. Esto se ha dado, en parte, po...
