Medicine and Life Sciences - Health

Allergies affect one in four people, but their prevalence could rise to nearly 50% of the population by 2050 if current trends continue. This is the warning from Dr Javier Montoro Lacomba, head of the Allergy Unit at Arnau de Vilanova Hospital in Llíria and professor of Immunology and Immunopathology at the University of Valencia, who points out that factors such as climate change and pollution are altering the behaviour of environmental allergens.

"mRNA is the most primal information technology created by nature. It can be manufactured synthetically by a relatively simple and versatile process, and it is safe and programmable", highlighted doctor Özlem Türeci, an expert in cancer immunotherapy and a driving force behind a COVID-19 vaccine based on messenger RNA, during the ceremony in which she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Barcelona.

Health - The fear that cancer will progress or worsen is one of the most common concerns among people living with this disease. Identifying and measuring this concern is key to providing appropriate psychological care and improving patients' quality of life.

A research team from the University of Valencia has analysed the scientific evidence available suggesting that cancer and cardiovascular disease are not independent conditions but share important metabolic and biological mechanisms. This synthesis of current knowledge, published in Seminars in Cancer Biology , proposes an integrative perspective that could help rethink the prevention and treatment of both diseases.

People affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, did not develop more severe forms of mpox - compared to HIV-negative people - during the multiregional outbreak of this disease that occurred in Spain in 2022.

Doctor Özlem Türeci, an expert in cancer immunotherapy and a driving force behind the development of the messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University