Medical Home and Healthcare

Living in a stimulating intellectual environment can do much for verbal skills, math and reasoning of adolescent boys and girls. It just proved a team of Spanish researchers through a study of more than 2,000 children from Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander and Zaragoza.

Ruth Castillo, Faculty of Psychology at the University of Malaga, is the lead author of the research that has had the participation of experts from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza.

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The evidence is not unequivocal, but numerous studies warning of the risks they may pose long-term use of bisphosphonates, a class of drugs commonly used in people with osteoporosis to improve bone quality. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA, for its acronym in English) has met with a committee of experts to decide if treatment is safe from the fifth year. In Spain, according to some experts, have been required “in excess”.

“Our country is the biggest spender in the world and such drugs, however, is not the most broken records,” said Santiago Munoz, president-elect of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology (SER). In order to “prevent and goodwill,” adds, “have been treated with bisphosphonates to women from the onset of Read the rest of this entry »

A working paper published today in Annals of Neurology confirms that the narcolepsy? which most likely cause is autoimmune? and flu is a relationship. At least temporarily.

Researchers at Stanford University (California) have conducted a study using data from China. Have studied 906 patients who had narcolepsy after the outbreak two years ago of H1N1. And the conclusion is that they have obtained about seven months after the occurrence of a flu appears another peak of narcolepsy. This disease is a weakening in Read the rest of this entry »

Patients with heart disease who practiced transcendental meditation to reduce stress have a higher rate of deaths, heart attacks and stroke by 50 percent lower than those who do not meditate, but continued health education programs.

So says a study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, United States, in collaboration with the Institute of Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management (MUM). Their results were published Monday in the edit ‘on line’ from ‘Archives of Internal Medicine.

This trial, which ran for nine years, followed the evolution of a total of 201 black patients with a mean age of 59 years of age and whose arteries had narrowed.

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Implemented in Spain’s first artificial ventricle a 67-year-old could not receive a transplant – The device will allow normal life to Pedro Antonio Pérez García, 67, had trouble climbing stairs a world from home. “I had to make three stops for the 17 steps. Just get off the car or climb left me exhausted,” he says. A heart attack left her bruised heart in 1996 and advised against a transplant kidney. In the absence of an artificial heart that does not exist yet, medical hospital in Madrid October 12 gave another solution, unprecedented in Spain: replace the function of one of the four chambers of the implant body with a mechanical device connected to a battery outside the body with cables. Yesterday, four months after surgery, Pedro left the hospital with their new device, and a backpack to carry the batteries. Surgeons believe that if all goes well, the device can function without intervening in it for 10 years at least. “The patient will have to be revisions, but for his state, not the device,” says cardiologist Enrique Pérez de la Sota.

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