Por Amarachi Orie

Una emisora ​​de radio británica se ha disculpado con el rey Carlos III de Gran Bretaña y con sus oyentes tras anunciar accidental e incorrectamente la muerte del monarca.

“Debido a un error informático en nuestro estudio principal, el procedimiento de Fallecimiento de un Monarca, que todas las emisoras del Reino Unido tienen preparado con la esperanza de no tener que utilizarlo, se activó accidentalmente el martes por la tarde (19 de mayo), anunciando erróneamente que Su Majestad el Rey había fallecido”, dijo el director de la emisora ​​Radio Caroline, Peter Moore, en un comunicado compartido en las redes sociales el miércoles.

“Radio Caroline guardó silencio, como era de esperar, lo que nos alertó para restablecer la programación y emitir una disculpa en antena”, continuó.

“A Caroline le ha complacido retransmitir el mensaje navideño de Su Majestad la Reina, y ahora también el del Rey, y esperamos seguir haciéndolo durante muchos años más”, añadió Moore.

“Pedimos disculpas a Su Majestad el Rey y a nuestros oyentes por cualquier molestia causada”, concluía el comunicado.

Fundada en 1964, Radio Caroline emite en varios países, entre ellos Bélgica y los Países Bajos, y está disponible en línea en todo el mundo.

El día del anuncio erróneo, el rey Carlos y la reina Camila se encontraban en Belfast, Irlanda del Norte.

El hombre de 77 años y su esposa participaron en una celebración cultural en Thompson Dock, el terreno seco donde se encontraba el Titanic antes de su viaje inaugural, según informó el Palacio de Buckingham en un comunicado el martes.

Allí conocieron a artistas y organizadores que se preparaban para el festival de música tradicional irlandesa Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, reconocido mundialmente, que tendrá lugar en agosto.

Según el palacio, los miembros de la realeza también visitaron la destilería del Titanic y aprendieron sobre la elaboración del whisky, antes de que el rey visitara una organización benéfica local que proporciona y promueve un mayor acceso a las habilidades necesarias para las carreras digitales.

Posteriormente, el rey y la reina se reunieron con el primer ministro y el viceprimer ministro de Irlanda del Norte en el castillo de Hillsborough, una residencia real cerca de Belfast.

El rey Carlos III de Gran Bretaña (C) y la reina Camila de Gran Bretaña conversan con el arquitecto Norman Foster (D) mientras asisten a una presentación sobre la recomendación de diseño final para el Monumento a la Reina Isabel, durante una visita al Museo Británico en el centro de Londres el 21 de abril de 2026, el día en que se habría cumplido el centenario del nacimiento de la difunta monarca.

El rey Carlos, quien reveló en febrero de 2024 que le habían diagnosticado cáncer, compartió en un mensaje de vídeo en diciembre que su tratamiento contra el cáncer se reduciría este año, ya que había estado respondiendo bien al tratamiento.

El mes pasado visitó Nueva York y Washington donde se dirigió al Congreso para conmemorar el 250 aniversario de la independencia de Estados Unidos. El rey también se dirigió al Parlamento británico la semana pasada.

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By Katia Hetter, CNN

(CNN) — Pregnant women are routinely advised to take prenatal vitamins for their health and their baby’s development. Now, a new study published Monday in JAMA Network Open concluded that children whose mothers received higher-dose vitamin D supplements during pregnancy performed better on certain memory tests at age 10.

What exactly did the study find? How meaningful were the differences? Should pregnant women start taking higher doses of vitamin D? And what do experts say are the risks of taking too much?

To help us with these questions, I spoke with CNN wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and adjunct associate professor at George Washington University. She previously served as Baltimore’s health commissioner.

CNN: What did this new study find about vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy and children’s cognition?

Dr. Leana Wen: This study was a randomized clinical trial conducted in Denmark that followed nearly 500 children until age 10. Researchers examined whether higher-dose vitamin D3 supplementation during pregnancy was associated with cognitive performance later in childhood.

The trial included hundreds of women who were randomly assigned during pregnancy to receive either a higher dose of vitamin D3 or a standard-dose supplement. The higher-dose group received 2,400 international units daily in addition to the standard prenatal amount, while the comparison group received the standard recommended dose of 400 international units daily.

At age 10, the children whose moms participated in the vitamin D3 trial underwent a series of neurocognitive tests. The researchers found that children in the higher-dose group performed modestly better on certain measures of verbal memory, visual memory and cognitive flexibility, which refers to the ability to shift attention or adapt to changing tasks. However, there were no significant differences in overall intelligence scores.

The improvements seen were statistically significant but modest. This research suggests there may be subtle effects of prenatal vitamin D exposure on certain aspects of brain development, but it does not mean that higher-dose vitamin D during pregnancy dramatically boosts intelligence or academic performance.

CNN: How was this study conducted, and what makes it different from prior research on vitamin D and brain development?

Wen: One major strength is that this was a randomized controlled clinical trial. Participants were initially blinded, meaning that they did not know which group they were assigned to. That matters because many prior studies on vitamin D and neurodevelopment have been observational, meaning they can identify associations but not cause and effect because many other factors could explain the findings.

In this study, participants were randomly assigned to different vitamin D doses during pregnancy, which helps reduce bias and confounding factors. The researchers also followed the children for a long time. Many earlier studies examined developmental outcomes in infancy or early childhood, whereas this study looked at cognition at age 10, when testing for more advanced cognitive functions such as memory and executive functioning can be conducted.

One notable finding is that the study did not find a clear threshold effect based on maternal vitamin D blood levels alone. In other words, there was not a specific vitamin D level above which children clearly performed better.

By Nimi Princewill, CNN

(CNN) — In rural Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a lethal Ebola strain has torn through local communities – claiming over 100 lives and triggering a global health emergency.

The virus was first discovered in the DRC in 1976, and remains an enduring threat. The central African nation has seen 17 outbreaks, more than any other country – a severe outbreak between 2018 and 2020 left 2,299 people dead.

Ebola, an often fatal virus that causes severe symptoms, including high fever and both internal and external bleeding, originates in wildlife. It is transmitted to humans through close contact with the blood or fluids of infected forest animals, such as “fruit bats, porcupines and non-human primates” like monkeys, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Once the virus enters a community, it spreads quickly between people through direct contact with bodily fluids or contaminated surfaces.

The current outbreak is driven by the Bundibugyo strain, a rare form of Ebola. Unlike the more common Zaire strain of the virus, the Bundibugyo variant currently lacks any approved vaccines or treatments.

Scientists believe humans first contracted Ebola by hunting, handling, or eating infected wild animals, collectively known as bushmeat. Such food – particularly bats, monkeys, grasscutters and antelopes – remains popular in the DRC, just one reason why Ebola remains a danger today.

The poison in the prey

The recurring outbreaks in the DRC are linked to its geography. Vast, dense forests cover more than 60% of the country’s landmass (over 150 million hectares), serving as a natural breeding ground for Ebola.

For many rural residents in the Congo Basin – the world’s second-largest rainforest – where bushmeat provides up to 80% of local protein intake, hunting wild meat is a matter of survival, not preference.

However, this vital food source serves as the primary gateway for deadly animal-to-human virus spillovers, according to Eteni Longondo, a former minister of public health in the DRC.

Longondo told CNN that regulating hunting in the country’s dense forests and preventing communities from consuming wildlife, particularly jungle carcasses, remains a significant challenge for health officials.

“It starts from the forest, and we don’t have any control there,” he said, noting that traditional hunting habits cannot be changed overnight.

“You cannot tell people to stop with their culture, and then they just stop right away. They are still eating them (wild meat) because they don’t have another alternative.”

The DRC is mineral rich but over 80% of its 100 million citizens live in extreme poverty. The situation is particularly grim in the east, where an active armed rebellion has allowed a powerful rebel c

By Sam Peters, CNN. Photographs by Toby Hancock, CNN.

(CNN) — Ask Gerry del Guercio and Paul Delany what they thought of New York’s pizza and the response is emphatic: “Underwhelmed.”

While New York’s slices may have a global reputation as some of the world’s best, they pale in comparison to what’s on offer in their home city, say these two pizza obsessives. London is now serving the greatest pizza in the world, they claim.

“We never really found anything that we liked better than our favorites in London,” Delany said.

Del Guercio and Delany run “Bite Twice,” a popular food review series on Instagram and TikTok and have reviewed around 600 pizzas in the UK capital, a mission that inspired them to open their own pizza restaurant, Carmela’s.

It’s also taken them to the heart of an emergent new slice — the “London pizza.” This variation on the classic dish has grown popular in the city over the past few years, ushering in a wave of new restaurants.

London pizza has yet to make it to the list of destination-linked classics — Neapolitan, Roman, Sicilian, Chicago, New York and New Haven among them. But those involved in the scene insist it should be, even if it’s hard to define.

According to Del Guercio and Delany, London pizza tends to take the high-quality ingredients of Neapolitan, the visual appeal and size of New York, the dark char and long cook of New Haven and Roman-style, and experimental doughs.

London pizza has “a lot of these styles, but with no rules,” Del Guercio said. “It’s a philosophy, bro,” Delany joked.

Del Guercio and Delany claim to have coined the “London pizza” term themselves, but UK food journalist and author Clare Finney first wrote about the concept in a 2019 article.

“The joy of it, and the beauty of it, is that it’s hard to define,” Finney told CNN.

London pizza has become a “a real celebration of the many different and distinct communities that make London what it is,” she said.

Despite Del Guercio and Delany’s apathy toward New York’s slices, the pair said that Carmela’s pizzas are inspired by what they found on the East Coast of the US.

“We’ve been to every major pizza city to try it all, and we’ve taken ideas from every single one of them to create Carmela’s,’ Del Guercio said. “That’s what every other London style pizzeria has done.”

The slice is right

Sebastian Vince developed his version of London pizza during lockdown. Vince owns Breadstall, which began as a takeaway baking business in the leafy suburb of Clapham. When restrictions were lifted, he began serving his experimental slices and quickly recognized the new opportunity.

Using a precise mix of pre-fermented and fresh doughs, called a biga, his pizza is known for being simultaneously crispy and chewy, with an airy crust.

Renowned British food critic Jay Rayner described it as “almost the best pizza I’ve ever tried,” second only to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Tokyo.

What makes London pizza so interesting, Vince says, is that chefs “don’t have that tradition, and therefore dogma.” Instead, amateurs are allowed to exper

Por Sandee LaMotte, CNN

Conservantes comunes para eliminar bacterias y moho que se utilizan en muchos alimentos han sido vinculados a un riesgo un 29 % mayor de presión arterial elevada y a un riesgo un 16 % superior de sufrir ataques cardíacos y accidentes cerebrovasculares, según un nuevo estudio realizado en Francia.

Incluso los llamados conservantes antioxidantes “naturales”, empleados para evitar la decoloración —tales como el ácido cítrico y el ácido ascórbico (ampliamente conocido como vitamina C)—, conllevaron un riesgo un 22 % mayor de hipertensión arterial en las personas que consumían más alimentos con dichos ingredientes, según halló la investigación.

Si bien los antioxidantes como el ácido cítrico y el ácido ascórbico se encuentran de forma natural en alimentos como las frutas, “no son exactamente naturales” cuando se utilizan como conservantes, afirmó por correo electrónico la autora principal del estudio, Mathilde Touvier. Touvier es la investigadora principal del estudio NutriNet-Santé, que sirvió de base para llevar a cabo esta investigación.

“El ácido ascórbico de origen natural y el ácido ascórbico añadido —que puede ser fabricado químicamente— podrían tener efectos distintos en la salud”, señaló Touvier, quien también ejerce como directora de investigación en el Instituto Nacional de Salud e Investigación Médica de Francia, con sede en París.

“Por consiguiente, los resultados observados en este caso respecto a estos aditivos alimentarios no son aplicables a las sustancias naturales presentes en las frutas y verduras”, añadió.

El estudio arroja luz sobre la manera en que diversos aditivos presentes en los alimentos ultraprocesados ​​podrían influir en el riesgo cardiovascular, y “hace eco del reciente consenso de la Sociedad Europea de Cardiología, que señala a estos alimentos como una preocupación global de salud pública”, declaró en un comunicado Tracy Parker, responsable de nutrición de la British Heart Foundation (Fundación Británica del Corazón) en Londres. Parker no participó en el estudio.

Los alimentos ultraprocesados ​​se han asociado a un riesgo aproximadamente un 50 % mayor de mortalidad por enfermedades cardiovasculares; asimismo, podrían incrementar el riesgo de obesidad en un 55 %, el de trastornos del sueño en un 41 % y el de desarrollar diabetes tipo 2 en un 40 %. La obesidad, la diabetes y la mala calidad del sueño guardan una estrecha relación con una salud cardíaca deficiente.

“Este es uno de los primeros estudios de gran envergadura que examina los conservantes de manera individualizada, en lugar de tratar a los alimentos ultraprocesados ​​como una categoría única”, comentó Parker. Los alimentos ultraprocesados ​​han suscitado inquietudes desde hace mucho tiempo debido a sus altos niveles de azúcar, sal y grasas; sin embargo, estos factores por sí solos nunca han explicado plenamente por qué parecen ser más nocivos de lo que sugiere su perfil nutricional. Estos hallazgos contribuyen a subsanar parte de esa laguna.

No obstante, investigaciones previas realizadas por Touvier y su equipo revelaron que los alimentos ultraprocesados ​​constituyen tan solo el 35 % de los alimentos con conservantes consumidos por la población. Esto significa que “los conservantes son omnipresentes”, afirmó la autora principal, Anaïs Hasenböhler, estudiante de doctorado en el Equipo de Investigación en Epidemiología Nutricional de la Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.

“No existe un grupo o tipo de alimento concreto que deba eliminarse de la dieta para solucionar el problema”, señaló Hasenböhler en un correo electrónico. “Estos resultados respaldan, asimismo, las recomendaciones dirigidas a los consumidores de priorizar los alimentos no procesados ​​o mínimamente procesados”.

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