Categoría: Medicina

Dra. Claudia Fernández Limón Tomado del portal del Horno 3 http://www.horno3.org/ Imaginemos unas deliciosas galletas, nuestros dulces favoritos, el pastel del cumpleaños o un helado. ¿Se te antoja? El antojo se lo debemos a nuestro cerebro. 

Tomado de Kids Frontiers Authors: Dara S Manoach and Robert Stickgold Reviewed by: Eleanor (8 years old) We human beings spend about a third of our lives sleeping. That means that if you live to 90, you’ll sleep for about 30 years – probably more time than you’ll spend doing anything else. Sleep has to […]

By Ricki Lewis, PhD Plos Blogs These days Neanderthals seem to pop up where you least expect them. When Medscape asked me a few days ago to write up a paper being published in the December 25 online Nature, the title sounded run of the mill: “Sequence variants in SLC16A11 are a common risk factor for type 2 diabetes in […]

By Ricki Lewis, PhD Plos Blogs On December 4, I visited the Clinic for Special Children in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, where a tiny staff cares for 2000+ patients with a variety of inherited illnesses. Last week’s post described a family in which 5 of 6 children have a seizure disorder that includes autistic features. Investigation of this […]

Tomado de los Blogs de Plos By Médecins Sans Frontières Leslie Shanks describes the challenging task of implementing error reporting within Médecins sans Frontières’ programmes.  I remember that day as if it were yesterday. It was in the middle of the chaos of the cholera outbreak that followed the refugee influx into Zaire in 1994 at the […]

By Shaili Jain, MD Tomado de Plos Blogs A standard part of any psychiatric evaluation involves inquiring about a patient’s sleep.  Hidden in the answers that follow the basic question of, “How are you sleeping?” are the clues that are needed to  diagnose what is ailing the patient seeking help from me. For those with depression, […]

By James Coyne PhD Tomado de Plos Blogs Does diagnosis and treatment of cancer leave many people suffering from PTSD? Cancer is routinely portrayed as a psychological trauma in the media. Dramatizing it as traumatic is a standard way of introducing psychological studies of cancer. A diagnosis of cancer can be life-altering, but the assumption that […]

By Adrian Preda MD A patient asked me a number of good questions today: Mr. Y:  We all have feelings, including negative feelings. Having feelings, even negative feelings, is to some extent [said with a tentative tone of voice] a normal state. How do I know when my feelings are more than just “normal feelings”?

By PLOS Medicine This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Using observational data collected in cohort studies in Southern Africa, Michael Schomaker and colleaguesestimate the mortality associated with starting Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) at different CD4 thresholds among children aged 2–5 years. Recent changes to World Health Organization guidelines for starting anti-AIDS drugs in young children are unlikely […]

By Atif Kukaswadia Tomado de Blogs Plos In Canada, the top three causes of death for men are cancer (31.1%), heart disease (21.6%) and unintentional injuries (5.0%). The top two are the same for women, although with slightly different percentages: cancer and heart disease account for 28.5% and 19.7% of all deaths among women, with stroke […]

By Travis Saunders, MSc, CEP Earlier this fall I let people know that Dr Steve Blair was giving a free public lecture organized by the local Exercise is Medicine student group at Queen’s University.  The event took place a little over a week ago, and I’m now able to share the full video and audio from that event.