Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

The calcium in a healthy diet reduces the risk of several types of cancer in elderly

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

calcioNo we discover what matters now is that the calcium in our body because it together with phosphorus are major components for the construction, development and strengthening of bones. We also compared other properties of calcium are the protection against osteoporosis, dental care for our health and even reduce blood pressure and prevents fat storage.

But researchers at the National Cancer Institute and several U.S. universities have conducted a study of almost 500,000 individuals who saw the relationship between calcium rich foods to incorporate into their diets and the incidence of cancer in these people in seven years.

Thus it became apparent that these individuals aged between 50 and 71 years and received a contribution of calcium daily between 1500 and 1800 mg had less risk of breast cancer, colon or esophagus with percentages were between 15% and 30% depending on the sex and type of cancer compared to those who took low doses of calcium, lower levels of calcium recommended by nutritionists and experts are 1,200 milligrams a day.

DyNeMo: Test for personalized treatment of breast cancer, predicting the success of recovery

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Based on an analysis of proteins through both of the women who have survived a cancer of the breast and eventually died, the Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto have seen them in the organization of the tumor cells is different, a fact that has led them to develop a test called Dynemo associated with this type of cancer.

So Dynemo that this tool has been tested on 350 patients and is due to receive financial support from one laboratory to the market can be a breakthrough for this type of cancer as it would know the options that women have sick , to reach finally recovered with a 80% reliability.

Another of the applications that researchers have found apart from the above and would fight more effectively against breast cancer can save more lives, as this would allow for a test and a personalized treatment for each patient about which drugs are more convenient to use or if they need the use of chemotherapy … ..

After a heart attack playing sports is good but not good to quit

Sunday, September 21st, 2008
year-to-positive-then-attack-of-cardiacoSegĂșn a study by a group of Swiss researchers and published this week in the journal Circulation, exercise after a heart attack is very good for recovery, but the positive effects disappear when failing to perform physical exercises. Valmont Genolier clinic Montreux-led the study.

The study showed that patients who performed exercises after a heart attack experienced an improvement in their blood vessels four weeks to begin exercising, but once you stop doing the exercise, namely a month after the positive effects disappear so it is recommended to maintain a routine of physical exercises on an ongoing basis.

209 patients were investigated in this study demonstrated the positive effects of physical activity, unchanged by the type of exercise performed.

Heart diseases are the leading cause of death in the world and is due to an obstruction of arteries and other blood vessels by fat accumulation.

The consumption of red or processed meats increases the risk of damaging our health

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Has always had the perception that the intake of meat at the expense of a diet where vegetables and fruits prevail is more harmful to our health, having a latest survey by the National Cancer Institute of the United States which confirms these theories.

Well with the data of some 500,000 people aged between 50 and 71 years and over a period of more than 10 years, researchers have found that eating red meat or processed meat is bad for our health because it increases the risk of death either because of problems involving the heart or the risk of developing any cancer.

And the fact is that reducing the consumption of meat is a rich source of saturated fats to help reduce low levels between 11% and 16% deaths in men and women respectively and should preferably consume as meat researchers opt for the so-called white meats are those that present less risk to our health.

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