“Flamenco Sunday” by Olivier Schrauwen: An Extraordinary and Fascinating Work Dominates This Week’s Book Reviews by Babelia

“Flamenco Sunday” by Olivier Schrauwen: An Extraordinary and Fascinating Work Dominates This Week’s Book Reviews by Babelia

Leaving testimony throughout 500 pages of a single day—Sunday, to make things even more boring—of the life of your most boring cousin seems uninteresting. A priori, it is quite reluctant to do so. And, of course, reading the comic doesn’t produce much enthusiasm either. But things change, and a lot, if the author is Olivier … Read more

The Decline of Arthouse Cinemas and the Impact on Avant-Garde Films: A Case Study with “Fallen Leaves” and Aki Kaurismaki’s Anti-Commercial Style

The Decline of Arthouse Cinemas and the Impact on Avant-Garde Films: A Case Study with “Fallen Leaves” and Aki Kaurismaki’s Anti-Commercial Style

The extinction or absence of arthouse cinemas forces experimental avant-garde films to be released in commercial cinemas, with unknown results. Often ruin. Thus, at the screening I attended of Fallen Leaves there were three people. The Finnish director’s film Aki Kaurismaki, an Oscar candidate, is deliberately anti-commercial, emphatically authorial, not at all easy or designed … Read more

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Provides $55 Million for Phase IIb Trial of MTBVAC Vaccine Against Tuberculosis

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Provides $55 Million for Phase IIb Trial of MTBVAC Vaccine Against Tuberculosis

IAVI, a global non-profit scientific research organization, and the Spanish biopharmaceutical company Biofabria subsidiary of the Zendal group, announced yesterday that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted them 55 million dollars to carry out the Phase IIb trial that evaluates the safety and efficacy of the MTBVAC vaccine, a candidate against tuberculosis (TB). … Read more

Galicia Flu Vaccination Campaign: Clinical Trial for High Dose Vaccine for Age 65-79

Galicia Flu Vaccination Campaign: Clinical Trial for High Dose Vaccine for Age 65-79

In the current flu vaccination campaign in Galicia, two vaccines are administered: one with a standard dose and another with a booster dose – with a greater amount of antigen. The latter is administered to those over 80 years of age because it has been shown to be more effective in preventing complications in this … Read more

Study on Co-Administering Flu and Covid-19 Vaccines in Spain’s Regional Hospital of Málaga

Study on Co-Administering Flu and Covid-19 Vaccines in Spain’s Regional Hospital of Málaga

A surprising clinical advance may take place, in the coming months, in several hospitals in Spain. Among them, the Regional Hospital of Málaga. And it’s going to start co-administer the flu vaccine with the Spanish Covid-19 vaccine, Bimervax. The objective is to verify the effects of both vaccines administered at the same time in the … Read more