Male Circumcision Part 4: “Public Health is a Noble Profession”
Plos One Blogs By Atif Kukaswadia As part of our special coverage of the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision collection, I recently sat down with Emmanuel Njeuhmeli, a public health physician who was heavily involved with the VMMC initiative. For those interested in a career in public health, and in infectious disease epidemiology, his perspective is enlightening.
Plantas medicinales previenen 80% de las enfermedades: experto
La Salud Las enfermedades a la que la población se enfrenta en la actualidad se deben a que nos alejamos de lo natural, “por tal motivo hay que retomar lo natural” El uso de las plantas medicinales puede prevenir hasta en 80 por ciento las enfermedades que las personas padecen en la actualidad, señaló el […]
Epidemiología y factores de riesgo del cáncer de mama
Doctora Cynthia Villarreal Garza Departamento de Oncología y Tumores Mamarios Instituto Nacional de Cancerología-México Miembro del SNI dra.cynthia.villarreal@gmail.com Doctora Claudia Arce Salinas
Palabras del Dr. de la Garza en ASCO 2014
Por La Salud Dr. Clifford A. Hudis, President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Dr. Sandra M. Swain, Chair, Special Awards Selection Committee Dear Members of ASCO Ladies and Gentleman:
Aumenta consumo de alcohol de 40 a 70 por ciento entre jóvenes; universitarios, los más vulnerables
Erick Juárez Pineda En el Primer Congreso Universitario Internacional sobre Adicciones que organizó la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Ricardo Gerardo Hidalgo Luna, del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), señaló que el consumo de alcohol en los jóvenes, aumentó de 40 a 70 por ciento y diversos estudios advierten que el grupo de mayor riesgo para el desarrollo de […]
La Patología, su importancia en el Diagnóstico
Doctora Paula Juárez Sánchez Anatomo Patóloga formada en la Unidad de Patología de la UNAM, en el Hospital General de México SSA y con Diplomado en Microscopía Electrónica en la misma institución
Launch of the PLOS Pediatric Medicine Collection
Plos One Blogs By Rhona MacDonald, Amy Ross and PLOS Collections PLOS Medicine Editors Rhona MacDonald and Amy Ross on the launch of the new PLOS Pediatric Medicine Collection and the upcoming Pediatric Academic Societies and Asian Society for Pediatric Research Meeting, where PLOS will be in attendance.
Male Circumcision Part 3: Why Some Men Resist the Next Best Thing to an AIDS Vaccine
Plos One Blogs By Beth Skwarecki In the Zimbabwe campaign Lindsay wrote about yesterday, public health messages have the look of a party invitation for the modern man – and his female partner. An attractive couple looked out from a breezy ad offering a free “summer snip.” A group of legislators underwent the operation in a makeshift clinic outside […]
Male Circumcision Part 2: His Choice and Her Influence
Plos One Blogs By Lindsay Kobayashi Circumcision can be done for a range of religious, cultural, or medical reasons, and it’s often a mix of these things. Being circumcised is somewhat of a social norm, and the success of the VMMC programmes in areas where men typically aren’t circumcised relies on creating a demand among adult […]
Cáncer de Pulmón
Dr. Juan Francisco González Guerrero Director del Centro Universitario Contra el Cáncer, UANL INTRODUCCIÓN El Cáncer de Pulmón es una enfermedad que se presenta alrededor del mundo. En el año 2008 hubo un registro de 1 millón 600 mil nuevos casos, de los cuales 1 millón 380 mil fallecieron. En el año 2012 en los […]
El mito de tomar mucha agua
Rodrigo Soto Moreno Desde hace algunos años recuerdo observar a diversas personas, sobre todo del género femenino, caminar muy gustosas con una botella de agua en la mano, dando vastos sorbos del líquido cada que pueden, imaginando que esa vital bebida no es solamente sinónimo de vida, sino también motivo por el cual bajan de […]
How to kill cancer cells
By Orac I am taking the Memorial Day holiday off. I will return tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s a general principle that needs to be remembered in cancer research:
Scary movies may trigger arrhythmias
Michael Woodhead Mental stress experienced during a movie or TV sports event could have an arrhythmogenic effect via ventricular repolarisation, UK cardiologists have shown. Researchers at The Heart Hospital, University College London, monitored ECG and other haemodynamic and respiratory changes in 19 healthy volunteers who watched an emotionally charged film clip from The Vertical Limit. As […]
Stroke Rounds: Study Questions ‘Obesity Paradox’
By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE; Instructor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Overweight and obese patients were not less likely — or more likely — to die fromstroke compared with their normal-weight counterparts, a Danish study showed. After accounting for missing data, the hazard […]