News of health

Rosario police end revolt over pay, mental health demands

11-02-2026 17:14 Dozens of police officers stage protest demanding higher salaries and improved mental health care in crime-it Rosario; Officers initially sanctioned, but punishments later withdrawn; Pay offer ends dispute.

Police rebellion

Police protest in Rosario over salary demands, mental health care

11-02-2026 17:05 Dozens of police officers stage protest demanding higher salaries and improved mental health care in Rosario; Officers initially sanctioned, but punishments later withdrawn.

MULTILATERALISM

WHO is being forced to cut jobs after US and Argentina pull funding

02-02-2026 14:33 Argentina has announced its intention to withdraw from the World Health Organisation, with the exit expected to take effect in February.

GOVERNMENT SPENDING

CEPA: Milei splashed cash on intelligence, slashed social budget in 2025

12-01-2026 18:50 Report by CEPA think tank reveals cutbacks in sensitive areas; Sharp real-terms cuts to health, science, social development and public works last year, while intelligence funding jumped 52%.

HEALTH & GOVERNMENT

Mendoza government takes parents to court for vaccination avoidance

13-12-2025 10:04 Province becomes first in Argentina to file civil lawsuits amid measles and whooping cough resurgence; Authorities say action against 15 parents is “just the beginning.”

HEALTH & SOCIETY

Study finds arsenic contamination in Buenos Aires Province

24-11-2025 12:54 Seventy percent of the region shows contamination linked to cancer and chronic illness, ITBA warns; Researchers warn that prolonged exposure could trigger cancers and severe respiratory disease.

CRIME & SECURITY

Teenager disarmed after firing gunshots at Mendoza Province school

11-09-2025 17:58 According to reports in local press outlets, the teenager had barricaded herself inside the Escuela 4-042 Marcelino H. Blanco in the city of La Paz, Mendoza Province, early in the morning.

DANCING IN GOOD HEALTH

Tango therapy treatment helps keep Parkinson's symptoms at bay

01-09-2025 15:14 In Argentina, dancing tango can be an innovative therapy to help combat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

GUEST COLUMN

Loneliness and isolation: the hidden threat to global health

11-08-2025 14:49 Humans are hardwired for connection. Disconnection, whether through loneliness, or social isolation, can have devastating impacts.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

False start delays new Maradona death trial, timeframe uncertain

22-07-2025 16:53 Doubts remain after a preparatory hearing between prosecutors, defence lawyers and the new judges appointed after the first trial was declared null and void.

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Maradona's physician, accused in star’s death, requests trial by jury

13-07-2025 11:38 Leopoldo Luque, Diego Maradona's personal physician, seeks trial by jury following the annulment of the trial that had begun in March.

OPINION & ANALYSIS

We need to talk about Conan

05-07-2025 06:07 Javier Milei brought his dog onto a TV show. According to him, the animal is about to turn 22 years old. Behind this story lies an unsettling truth.

by Juan Luis González

HEALTH & ECONOMY

Workers at top children's hospital strike over pay, budget cutbacks

25-06-2025 17:47 Workers at the Garrahan Children's Hospital in Buenos Aires protest against government policies, demanding improves wages and budget for the prestigious paediatric institution.

HEALTHCARE & ECONOMY

Hospital staff march to Obelisk in pay dispute protest

03-06-2025 15:15 Doctors at Argentina’s top children’s hospital march in protest, calling for fair pay, proper staffing and urgent improvements in care as Milei administration goes on attack.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

Anger as Maradona death trial annulled due to disgraced judge

29-05-2025 17:53 The trial over Diego Maradona’s death has been annulled after a judge involved secretly participated in a documentary; Julieta Makintach has been suspended and disgraced, forcing a full restart of proceedings.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

Maradona death trial collapses in scandal as court orders restart

29-05-2025 13:04 Trial into the death of Diego Armando Maradona declared null and void by San Isidro court following the scandal involving Julieta Makintach, one of the three judges overseeing the case.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

Scandalous scenes as Maradona death trial is thrown into disarray

28-05-2025 12:33 The fate of the trial into Diego Maradona's will be decided on Thursday, following a scandal involving one of the judges over her participation in a documentary about the case.

FOREIGN POLICY

Milei burnishes his Trump ties by hosting health chief RFK Jr

28-05-2025 11:26 Health & Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes second US Cabinet official to visit Argentina in recent weeks.

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Future of Maradona death trial in doubt as scandal-hit judge steps down

27-05-2025 21:47 Judge Julieta Makintach forced to recuse herself following outcry; Court says it will decide Thursday if case goes to retrial.

MULTILATERAL WITHDRAWAL

Argentina ratifies WHO withdrawal during RFK Jr visit

27-05-2025 09:36 Argentina says it will reform healthcare model and reiterates decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization, as Trump's health secretary, vaccine-sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., visits Buenos Aires.

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO guiding body gets to grips with budget beset by US pullback

19-05-2025 13:38 World Health Organization begins talks to grapple with US$1.7-billion funding gap following US decision to not pay its membership dues.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

Doctor: Maradona's 'self-harming behaviour' should've ruled out home care

07-05-2025 13:24 Pablo Dimitroff, director of the Clínica Olivos, says home care was not a "valid option" for late footballer.

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Maradona death trial: Diego was not fit for home care, says doctor

30-04-2025 00:20 Fernando Villarejo, head of Clínica Olivos' intensive care unit, says he expressed his opposition to home care.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

Maradona's daughter says doctors could have prevented star's death

16-04-2025 10:16 Dalma Maradona accuses doctors of deception and neglect as late footballer's final days come under scrutiny in emotional trial.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

‘I’m not well,’ Maradona told a doctor, weeks before death

11-04-2025 09:38 Doctor Flavio Tunessi said the late footballing icon had told him "I’m not well," a few weeks before star's death.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

Maradona's former doctor bemoans 'neglect of care' before star's death

08-04-2025 17:19 Dr Mario Schiter, Diego Maradona's former doctor, says there was a "neglect of care" in late star's medical treatment in the period leading up to his death.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

Maradona ‘sometimes resisted’ medical treatment, admits sister

03-04-2025 23:48 Diego Maradona "sometimes resisted" medical attention, admits one of his sisters at the trial into his 2020 death.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Pope Francis returns home from hospital, thanks faithful

23-03-2025 10:41 Pope Francis returns to the Vatican after being discharged from the hospital where he spent more than five weeks receiving treatment.

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No 'medical items' around Maradona deathbed, policeman tells court

18-03-2025 22:13 Lucas Farías, an officer in the Buenos Aires Province Police Force, says he saw no "medical items" in the room where Diego Maradona received post-operative care.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Hospitalised Pope Francis says he is 'facing period of trial'

16-03-2025 09:26 Latest update from Vatican tampers speculation that the Pope's progress could signal an imminent release from hospital.

POPE FRANCIS

'Too soon' to discuss pope's return home

10-03-2025 14:20 The pontiff issued a written version of his weekly Sunday Angelus prayer after showing "slight improvements" in hospital.

HEALTH & ECONOMY

Milei government eliminates Argentina's national cancer institute

06-03-2025 21:15 In a statement, Argentina's Health Ministry announced the closure of the Instituto Nacional del Cáncer because of a "duplicity of tasks" and to have "greater control of actions."

POPE FRANCIS

Weak-sounding pope releases audio from hospital

06-03-2025 18:00 Pope Francis says heartfelt thanks to worldwide supporters for their prayers as he nears three weeks in hospital: "May God bless you and the Virgin protect you."

public health crisis

Doctors resign from Health Ministry scheme over ‘dismantling’ of programmes

05-03-2025 16:59 Healthcare professionals working on Health Ministry programmes to tackle HIV, leprosy and tuberculosis resign en masse, stating: "We will not be part of a Ministry where essential programmes are unable to meet the basic obligations set by law."

POPE FRANCIS

Pope not out of danger, doctors say

21-02-2025 18:01 Pope Francis passes another calm night in hospital, the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old spent his seventh day in hospital being treated for pneumonia.

Catholic Church

Fresh health fears as Pope Francis is hospitalised with bronchitis

14-02-2025 15:39 Pope Francis admitted to hospital in Rome for tests and treatment for ongoing bronchitis, the Vatican announces.

REACTION TO PULL-OUT

Experts voice criticism of Milei’s decision to quit WHO

07-02-2025 21:28 Opposition lawmakers, healthcare experts and analysts warn that President Javier Milei’s decision to withdraw Argentina from the World Health Organization will cut the country off from international health guidance, research and technology.

by Zella Milfred

CAPTURING HISTORY

Presidential photographer hangs up camera after 47 years

06-02-2025 23:55 Víctor Bugge, presidential photographer who captured Videla, Menem and the Rolling Stones, retires after 47 years.

MULTILATERALISM

Milei pulls Argentina out of World Health Organization

05-02-2025 12:01 Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization, Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni confirms, following in the footsteps of the United States.

Multilateral Exodus

WHO, Paris climate accords, Mercosur – Milei mulls multilateral retreat

23-01-2025 19:05 Argentina is considering withdrawing from the World Health Organisation, Paris climate accords and Mercosur bloc, according to reports.

Endangered Livestock

Uruguay alert shows potentially toxic cyanobacteria

23-01-2025 11:37 A large algae bloom at the Río Negro Basin in Uruguay could impact the country's agricultural sector.

Global Health

WHO 'regrets' Trump decision to pull US from organisation

21-01-2025 11:08 Trump directs US withdrawal from the World Health Organization, triggering "significant restructuring" in the organisation's future.

HUMAN RIGHTS

IACHR condemns El Salvador for denying abortion to sick woman

23-12-2024 21:01 Amnesty International praised a ruling by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemning El Salvador for denying a woman a life-saving abortion in 2013.

BRAZILIAN POLITICS

Geraldo Alckmin, Lula’s rival-turned-vice-president, finds himself in unwanted limelight

19-12-2024 08:17 For decades, he was President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s political rival. Now his boss’s health issues have put Geraldo Alckmin at the centre of questions about Brazil’s future.

BRAZIL IN FOCUS

Lula’s age and health leave Brazil on edge about what comes next

14-12-2024 08:36 Brazil is pondering the future as Lula’s age and health become major parts of the political discussion and attention turns toward the next presidential election in 2026.

HEALTH & ECONOMY

Government: Prepaid health schemes face probe for alleged ‘cartel practices’

12-12-2024 18:48 Following investigation into co-ordinated fee increases between last December and last April, Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni states CNDC anti-monopoly watchdog has initiated summary proceedings against several prepaid health schemes and former chamber president Claudio Belocopitt.

SOCIETY

Pensioners the biggest losers of Milei’s first year in office

09-12-2024 13:20 Some five million retirees in Argentina receive just a minimum pension and bonus payment amounting to some US$320, just a third of the estimated living cost for an older adult.

HEALTH & SOCIETY

‘Growing public health problem’ – Syphilis infections hit three-decade high

07-11-2024 16:11 Health Ministry data shows cases have risen from just over 12,000 in 2021 to more than 32,000 in 2023 – the highest recorded tally in three decades.

POLLS & SURVEYS

Chile overwhelmingly scorns immigration, poll shows

31-10-2024 10:43 Chileans are demanding stricter immigration controls much more than neighbours in other Latin American nations, according to a new poll, as an influx of newcomers upends politics in one of the region’s richest economies.

OBITUARY

Former Health minister Ginés González García dies aged 79

18-10-2024 14:41 Veteran politician and physician Ginés González García, whose lengthy career in public service ended in disgrace during the coronavirus pandemic, dies at the age of 79.

News of health

Rosario police end revolt over pay, mental health demands

Police protest in Rosario over salary demands, mental health care

WHO is being forced to cut jobs after US and Argentina pull funding

CEPA: Milei splashed cash on intelligence, slashed social budget in 2025

Mendoza government takes parents to court for vaccination avoidance

Study finds arsenic contamination in Buenos Aires Province

Teenager disarmed after firing gunshots at Mendoza Province school

Tango therapy treatment helps keep Parkinson's symptoms at bay

Loneliness and isolation: the hidden threat to global health

False start delays new Maradona death trial, timeframe uncertain

Maradona's physician, accused in star’s death, requests trial by jury

We need to talk about Conan

Workers at top children's hospital strike over pay, budget cutbacks

Hospital staff march to Obelisk in pay dispute protest

Anger as Maradona death trial annulled due to disgraced judge

Maradona death trial collapses in scandal as court orders restart

Scandalous scenes as Maradona death trial is thrown into disarray

Milei burnishes his Trump ties by hosting health chief RFK Jr

Future of Maradona death trial in doubt as scandal-hit judge steps down

Argentina ratifies WHO withdrawal during RFK Jr visit

WHO guiding body gets to grips with budget beset by US pullback

Doctor: Maradona's 'self-harming behaviour' should've ruled out home care

Maradona death trial: Diego was not fit for home care, says doctor

Maradona's daughter says doctors could have prevented star's death

‘I’m not well,’ Maradona told a doctor, weeks before death

Maradona's former doctor bemoans 'neglect of care' before star's death

Maradona ‘sometimes resisted’ medical treatment, admits sister

Pope Francis returns home from hospital, thanks faithful

No 'medical items' around Maradona deathbed, policeman tells court

Hospitalised Pope Francis says he is 'facing period of trial'

'Too soon' to discuss pope's return home

Milei government eliminates Argentina's national cancer institute

Weak-sounding pope releases audio from hospital

Doctors resign from Health Ministry scheme over ‘dismantling’ of programmes

Pope not out of danger, doctors say

Fresh health fears as Pope Francis is hospitalised with bronchitis

Experts voice criticism of Milei’s decision to quit WHO

Presidential photographer hangs up camera after 47 years

Milei pulls Argentina out of World Health Organization

WHO, Paris climate accords, Mercosur – Milei mulls multilateral retreat

Uruguay alert shows potentially toxic cyanobacteria

WHO 'regrets' Trump decision to pull US from organisation

IACHR condemns El Salvador for denying abortion to sick woman

Geraldo Alckmin, Lula’s rival-turned-vice-president, finds himself in unwanted limelight

Lula’s age and health leave Brazil on edge about what comes next

Government: Prepaid health schemes face probe for alleged ‘cartel practices’

Pensioners the biggest losers of Milei’s first year in office

‘Growing public health problem’ – Syphilis infections hit three-decade high

Chile overwhelmingly scorns immigration, poll shows

Former Health minister Ginés González García dies aged 79

Westerners looking for a way out

Be my market valentine, Milei

Stupid cupid – an $LIBRA of love

Molotov cocktails and circumstantial majorities

Behind the times

Cachanosky: "Estamos teniendo inflación con estancamiento en la economía"

"Milei miente sistemáticamente", acusa Martín Romeo, uno de los damnificados de $Libra

Útil idiota

Quique Felman vuelve a la Argentina tras su detención en Estados Unidos por movimientos millonarios

Desolación en Villa Elvira: buscan al conductor que asesinó a Eugenia Carril, de 18 años