Maintaining healthy household routines such as family dinners, getting enough sleep and limit the daily time spent on television are key elements to prevent obesity in preschoolers. The combination of these three habits fall by 40% the incidence of this disease in infants, says a study .
Although previous work had examined the role of these [...]
By Dr. Marvin Kunikiyo
You probably know about the terrible statistics on heart disease. It’s
the #1 killer in the United States. Heart disease kills one person every
34 seconds in the U.S. alone.
What you may not know is the true cause of heart disease… the real
culprits.
Is it cholesterol?
Is it saturated fats?
The [...]
By Susan Tellem
Many women with painful fibroids decide to “wing it” without any
treatment in the belief that their fibroids will disappear during
menopause. For years, doctors would tell their patients that fibroids
shrink after the change of life. But patients with fibroids ended up
undergoing a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) instead before
menopause because symptoms worsened. Why? It’s [...]
Recommended care
Prostate-cancer in countries like Mexico, is the second most common cancer in men. According to data from the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), this kind of disease is located after gastric and represents about 11.5 percent of all tumors that affect this genre.
The 5% of men over 50 will experience this carcinoma [...]
Syndrome of Sudden Infant Death (SSID) occurs when a baby is apparently healthy and dies while sleeping. This type of death is very common in the first months of life babies.
The baby’s breathing is impaired, it stops for more than 10 seconds and that is what is causing their death.
All babies are vulnerable to suffering [...]
by Steven Hefferon, CMA, PTA
What is it?
The Sacroiliac joint (SI) connects the base of the spine to the pelvis. It has two connection points and a hefty network of ligaments because it is a weight-bearing joint. The connection points have a kind of interlocking mechanism that limits movement at the joint.
The SI joint can become [...]
Influenza pandemics are rare events, but recurrent.
In any case, the authorities of the world body have insisted that you can still minimize the impacts of this outbreak of swine flu, although it has been verified its transmission from person to person.
Phase One: The influenza virus circulating among animals and not [...]
Different promising drug development strategies are emerging in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) continues to claim that nearly two million lives each year worldwide, mainly in developing countries.
As the bacterium – Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) – evolves to resist anti-TB drugs, and patients find it difficult to stick to existing drug regimes the search is on [...]
Dense pig populations, such as those found in food factories, allow viruses to spread and evolve very quickly.
The current swine flu outbreak originated in the small town of La Gloria, Mexico, which lies next to one of the country’s biggest pig factories. The factory’s owner, Smithfield Foods, claims their herds are healthy – but they [...]
Scientists are developing a biological control method for malaria that uses larvae-eating fish to control mosquito populations in rain-fed pools.
Tanzania’s Tropical Pesticide Research Institute (TPRI) is collaborating with the US-based Poseidon Science Foundation to investigate the best way to mass-produce and disseminate the fish embryos for eventual use in areas where malaria is endemic.
The fish [...]
