Archive for the ‘Child Health’ Category

Another consequence of passive smoking: risk for Alzheimer’s

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

pasivoTodos know what snuff is harmful to people who smoke with numerous pathologies, lung cancers and pharmaceutical expenditure that produces it, but slowly people are aware of is that being a passive smoker also has consequences as for example, that the fetus may suffer from a pregnant woman throughout their development.

The last illness so that we can now get to suffer if we are passive smokers is Alzheimer’s, something we have to check in a study conducted in England on a sample of 5,000 people all passive smokers, who Several tests were performed to verify their neurological memory and other cognitive abilities.

Study researchers concluded that people who smoke in the form of snuff from his life but do not smoke are more likely to suffer some cognitive impairment such as Alzheimer’s and while not exactly know the causes of this relationship snuff-points to Alzheimer’s that cigarette smoke may exert an oxidative effect, inflammatory about our brain to deteriorate.

Benefits of breastfeeding: a 23% reduced risk of suffering from coronary problems in women

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

lactanciaA despite medical advances that breastfeeding benefits for babies for the little ones that result in providing more nutrients than the milk produced but also creates a profit breastfeeding in women such as they are less likely to develop breast cancer or to develop postpartum depression or a lower risk of developing diabetes.

In addition to these benefits, through a study of more than 100,000 women who had been breastfeeding our children during a period of 23 months leads to a reduction of 23% of the risk of heart disease. This would be possible for the behavior of lipids and glucose during lactation such as fat accumulates during pregnancy women are more easily removed during infancy and therefore lower risk of cardiovascular problems.

This is undoubtedly important when we consider that the European Union in deaths from stroke and other heart problems mean the leading cause of death in women.

Justice requires a prepaid to cover the cost of two boys disabled

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

It is so they can attend a private school. The parents argued that public schools are not prepared Escobar from the architectural point of view. Teenagers of 12 and 14 years, moving in a wheelchair for a disease that weakens the muscles.

A company must be prepaid medical charges for the cats that demands the education of two brothers with disabilities in a private school in the town of Escobar. So the judge ordered in civil and commercial Luis Maria Marquez after an amparo filed by the parents of minors.

Judicial sources said the decision was taken against the official opinion of the advocate of children, who considered it an “absurd” to bind the pre-offer private education because of “reasons building” in public.

Parents of boys of 14 and 12 years, argued that public schools in the area where they live are not prepared from the architectural point of view. So called OSDE cover 100 percent of costs in a private institution.

Teenagers suffering from motor disability with a diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disease that quickly leads to the weakening of the legs and pelvis.

The judge found that he was involved not only the right to health, but also to education, “fundamental to enable adults and children equal opportunities to develop and participate actively in their communities.”

The judge further recalled that, under existing law, companies of prepaid medicine “have been matched as to their obligations benefits with other social work, it can not ignore its social responsibilities as arbitrarily or unilaterally. ”

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Source: Telam