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With World Class Physicians & Facilities, Colombia Continues to Lead as a Destination for Medical Tourism in Latin America
Finance Colombia
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July 7, 2025
Colombia continues to solidify its position as one of the most attractive destinations in Latin America for medical tourism, a sector that has shown consistent growth. According to data from ProColombia, medical tourism in the country was valued...
Colombia’s healthcare system deteriorated further despite govt intervention
Colombia Reports
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July 7, 2025
The Comptroller General’s Office (CGO) issued an alert about an ongoing degradation of Colombia’s public healthcare system, which is owed more than $8.2 billion (COP32.9 trillion) by private intermediaries called EPS’s. In its annual report, the...
Catherine Conlon: Drop in US junk food sales the break we need to cut unhealthy diets
Irish Examiner
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July 7, 2025
Our food system is killing us. Designed to produce cheap calories after the second world war, it is now the cause of one in four adult deaths globally – more than 12 million a year that are due to poor diets. As always, it is the poorest and most...
Rady Faculty announcement: Dr. Josée Lavoie appointed dean, College of Community and Global Health
University of Manitoba
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July 7, 2025
July 7, 2025 — Message from Dr. Peter Nickerson, vice-provost (health sciences) and dean, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. Dr. Peter Nickerson, vice-provost (health sciences) and dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, is pleased to announce...
DVG warns: Rainy season brings more mosquitoes and higher risk of disease
24ora
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July 7, 2025
0 In an exclusive interview with 24ora.com, Luis Chong, head of the Yellow Fever Mosquito Control Department (GKMB) at the Department of Public Health (DVG), and DVG’s public relations officer, Jurette Croes, shared important updates about the...
WHO calls for 50% tax hike on sugary drinks, alcohol, and tobacco by 2035 to curb global health crisis
Food Business Africa Magazine
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July 7, 2025
GLOBAL – The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments worldwide to raise taxes on sugary drinks, alcohol, and tobacco by 50% over the next decade in its strongest call yet for fiscal action to address chronic public health issues. The...
The rise in ayahuasca tourism is colonising wellness
Thred
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July 7, 2025
Ayahuasca has become a wellness darling in recent decades. The hallucinogenic plant is native to the Amazon basin, and as more of us embark on quests for healing and personal transformation, it’s exploded in popularity. Framed as a pathway to...
Regenerative Collaboration in Colombia Leads to ‘Biochar Origins’ Coffee Line
Daily Coffee News
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July 7, 2025
Nick Brown | July 7, 2025 Biochar being spread in coffee fields as a soil amendment. All images courtesy of Equation. Colombia-based green coffee seller Equation Coffee recently introduced Biochar Origins, a line of coffees resulting from a...
Fresenius Medical Care collaborates with CCINSHAE to extend access to innovative dialysis therapy in Mexico
Pharmabiz.com
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Fresenius Medical Care (FME), the world’s leading provider of products and services for individuals with renal diseases, will extend High-Volume Hemodiafiltration (HighVolumeHDF) access for patients in seven out of 10 centers in Mexico, by...
What’s bigger than an anaconda? This 58-million-year-old fossil of prehistoric snake in Colombia may have the answer
The Times of India
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In a groundbreaking paleontological discovery, scientists have uncovered fossil remains of a prehistoric snake that challenges everything we know about reptilian evolution. Called Titanoboa cerrejonensis, this extinct serpent lived over 58 million...
Colombia: Suspect held in attack on presidential candidate
Vatican News
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July 6, 2025
Authorities in Colombia confirm that they have arrested a person they claim is the main conspirator in the assassination attempt on a Presidential Candidate, who remains in critical condition in hospital after being shot twice in the head at a...
Inter-American court affirms legal right to a healthy climate
JURIST
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July 5, 2025
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) published its opinion on Thursday that all countries in the Americas have legal obligations under human rights law to confront the climate crisis. The court’s Advisory Opinion OC-32/25, issued on...
Raise health taxes and save millions of lives!
Daily Star
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July 5, 2025
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched the "3 by 35" initiative, urging countries to increase real prices on tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks by at least 50% by 2035 through health taxes, says a news release. This move aims to reduce...
Ricardo Martinelli Proposes a Cabinet Overhaul in Panama from his New Home in Colombia
Newsroom Panama
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July 6, 2025
Former President of the Republic and leader of the Realizing Goals (RM) party, Ricardo Martinelli, spoke out this Saturday through his social networks about the country’s economic and political situation, sending a direct message to the current...
WHO pitches health tax on sugar; Dating apps are downsizing: CBC's Marketplace cheat sheet
CBC/Radio-Canada
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July 6, 2025
Miss something this week? Don't panic. CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need. Want this in your inbox? Get the Marketplace newsletter every Friday. Raise prices on sugary drinks, alcohol and tobacco by 50%, WHO suggests...
Major Overnight Cleanup in the Medina of Tunis to Welcome Visitors in a Healthy Environment
Tunisie Numerique
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July 6, 2025
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Municipal services in Tunis carried out a large-scale cleaning and disinfection operation overnight from Saturday, July 5 to Sunday, July 6, 2025, along the tourist route through the Medina of Tunis. The...
Confirman captura de “El Costeño”, presunto planificador del atentado al senador Uribe en Colombia
Los Angeles Times
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July 5, 2025
BOGOTÁ — La policía de Colombia confirmó el sábado la captura de alias “El Costeño”, quien es señalado por las autoridades de supuestamente planificar el atentado contra el senador y precandidato presidencial Miguel Uribe Turbay y sobre quien se...
Autoridades de Colombia arrestan a alias “El Costeño”, presunto responsable en el atentado contra Uribe Turbay
KVIA - Texas
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July 5, 2025
Por Fernando Ramos y Verónica Calderón, CNN en Español Las autoridades colombianas capturaron a Elder José Arteaga Hernández, alias “El Costeño”, como uno de los presuntos responsables del atentado contra el senador y precandidato presidencial...
Colombia Hails IACHR Ruling Recognizing ‘The Right to A Healthy Climate’
teleSUR
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July 4, 2025
July 4, 2025 Hour: 12:03 pm On Friday, Colombia called a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) a “global milestone” for recognizing, for the first time, the human right to a healthy climate and the obligation of states to act...
Alleged mastermind in shooting of Colombian senator arrested: Officials
CBS News
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The alleged mastermind behind the shooting of conservative Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was taken into custody Saturday, nearly a month after the attack, law enforcement authorities said. Elder José Arteaga...