Antonio Gasparrini

2 months ago | nature.com | Antonio Gasparrini

May 23, 2024 | nature.com | Dann Mitchell |Antonio Gasparrini

AbstractExtreme weather and coronavirus-type pandemics are both leading global health concerns. Until now, no study has quantified the compound health consequences of the co-occurrence of them. We estimate the mortality attributable to extreme heat and cold events, which dominate the UK health burden from weather hazards, in England and Wales in the period 2020-2022, during which the COVID-19 pandemic peaked in terms of mortality.

Aug 24, 2023 | obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Maria Lewandowska |Daniel Carter |Antonio Gasparrini |Patricia Lohr

1 INTRODUCTION Medical abortion involves the administration of mifepristone, followed 24–48 h later by misoprostol, resulting in loss of the pregnancy in a process similar to miscarriage.1 The proportion of medical abortions in Britain has been increasing since the introduction of mifepristone in the early 1990s.

Feb 2, 2023 | dispatchist.com | Antonio Gasparrini

According to a modeling study published in The Lancet and spearheaded by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by “la Caixa” Foundation, urban heat islands cause more than 4% of deaths in cities during the summer months, and one-third of these deaths could be avoided by reaching a tree cover of 30%.