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| Thoroughly |
| The good thing, the bad thing and those who did news in 2008 |
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Washington Hispanic
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| World conference of AIDS in Mexico. |
The good thing
A decade of Viagra in the world
To the being one of the medicines most sold in the world, the Viagra was ten years in 2008, what was celebrated for them nearly 35 million males who suffer erectile malfunction related at the age in the planet.
World conference of AIDS in Mexico
The first time that this meeting on a global scale realizes in Latin America, this International Conference put big interest in the struggle against the stigma, which keeps on being one of the principal enemies in the struggle against the virus.
They diminish deaths for cancer
According to the American Society of the Cancer, the deaths indexes for this illness diminished in the United States. This is due to the fact that factors as the evaluation of the cancer affect the quantity of new cases. More evaluations might detect more cases of cancer, but also they might detect inactive cancers that might disappear for his account if they are not detected. The changes in the risk factors for the cancer also affect the new cases of the illness.
The bad thing Infant mortality increases
With nearly seven deaths for every thousand living births (according to numbers of 2004), the United States occupied the place number 29 in the world in infant mortality.
This compares with the position 27 in 2000, 23 in 1990 and 12 in 1960.
The discouraging panorama appeared in a report of the National Center of Statistics of the CDC.
One of the four youngsters has ETS
About 25 % of the adolescents of the United States suffers from some type of illness transmitted by sexual route, this is, approximately three millions of youngsters, according to the first study of this group for age, as there determined a study of the Centers of Control and Prevention of Illnesses.
Low life expectation for the women in the country
For the first time from the sprout of Influenza Española, in 1918, the life expectations for the women in the country declined. In nearly thousand counties along the country, which total about 12 % of the women of the USA, the life expectation today is minor than it was at the beginning of the 80s.
They did news...
Catalina Sol
The director of the Program of VIH/Sida of The Clinic of the People was recognized during the celebration of the Latin Day of Campaign to raise public awareness of the AIDS by his notable work in the field. As Carlos Soles said in the presentation of the award, “today we recognize a real leader in our community. His perseverance, passion and knowledge is a good reminder of the porqué it is a voice in our community”.
Juan José Rivera
The cardiologist of the Hospital Johns Hopkins continued his ministry against the cardiac illnesses across his web site nuevocorazonhispano.com. Dr. Rivera is compromised in spite of taking simple information to the Hispanic community in his language.
Victor Martínez
It is notable when the young people takes the struggle flags and puts itself at the head in the battle against the VIH, as it has been done by this young man of Manassas, who has continued the passes of his mother as community activist to knock down all the ignorance that makes a detour to the virus.
Ruthie Flores
The manager of the Latin initiative in the National Campaign to Prepare the Adolescent Pregnancy had a complex year, especially with the news of famous personages who remained pregnant (like the sister of Britney Spears or the romantización of the adolescent pregnancy of the movie Juno). Nevertheless, the use of the new means to take his message to the Hispanic young people makes him an out-standing personage this 2008.
| The thermometer |
| How to avoid the surf of end of year |
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| To celebrate is well, but eye with the excess. |
For Celia González
Washington Hispanic
The well-known surf is a set of symptoms then that a person has consumed a lot of alcohol.
While more alcohol completes, more probabilities it has of waking up the following morning with surf.
Depending on what I took and how much, the symptoms of a surf can include fatigue, be, headache, morning sickness or vomiting, sensibility to the light, sickness, high cardiac rhythm, anxiety and annoyance.
The causes
Easy. Alcohol consumption. It corners only one can unleash a surf. But there are several involved factors. First, the alcohol stimulates to the body to produce more urine, what it can take to a dehydration. On the other hand, the walls of the stomach get angry, what increases the acids production and delays his emptying. Also, to drink glasses of more provokes that the sugar level falls down in the blood and can cause drowsiness.
Risk factors
There are some factors that can facilitate the surf. For example, to take with the empty stomach, to smoke cigarets while it is drunk, to have a familiar alcoholism record, to drink dark gulps (like whiskey and brandy, which they contain a substance called congenerous, which they can contribute to the severity of the surf), and take alcohol with drinks carbonatadas, like sodas.
How to be improved
Although there are several home-made remedies that they say to prepare the surf, the true thing is that there is a pair of advices that can help him to relieve his symptoms.
Take water. Many people say that the best remedy for the surf is a beer. Error. Take water, and great. This way it will be able to fight against the dehydration that provokes the alcohol consumption.
Eat earlier. Soft meals, like toasted water cookies or, they can help to increase the sugar levels in the blood and stabilize his stomach. The soups also serve to mend the levels of sodium and potassium. Also the fructose in fruits or the honey can help him to burn the most rapid alcohol of his organism.
Take a medicine. A remedy for the headaches will help him with the blow with an axe. Nevertheless, eye, because the aspirin irritates the stomach and the tylenol can provoke damages in the liver.
Return to the bed. If the sufficient thing sleeps, it is possible that his surf has gone away when he wakes up.
| To his health |
| Intentions of the New Year |
For Maria Gómez
The president of Mary's Center
A new year begins and as always, we are to the expectation of what will provide us, always waiting for the best thing and more suitable for we and our families.
I invite it to one of the intentions that you do to himself for 2009 to be to take his health and that of his family as a priority during the whole year, so that this is not an obstacle in the achievement of other projects that you have or that appear before him this year.
Many people will say that we cannot predict the health and there are cases in which really we cannot do it, but if you stop to think, it will think that there are many actions that you can realize to help in that his health is in better conditions. The key consists in gliding and acting on time.
One take a moment to evaluate the health of each of the members of his family and what each one needs to be better.
Do it from now on that begins the year and destine, if it can, a small place in his hearth to file everything what has relation with the medical part of all those who live in the house.
It seemed slightly minor, but at the time of an emergency or of having a medical appointment it is going to save time, money and stress.
If it has children, insure of having the cards of the vaccines of each of them in this place, so that when it has to go to the doctor for his annual examination, it could always take this document and it is updated by the new vaccines of every year and this way it has them a day for the school or in some cases, for when he travels and needs this document.
If you have the insurance of Alliance, the Medicaid or any other type of medical care, keep in this place destined for the "health" a copy of the cards of the insurance, since the original must always load it with you to present it when he visits the doctor, a specialist or when it goes to a hospital.
Also it is very important that it is dependent on the due date of these cards so that it does not allow them to win and this way it does the renewal of his insurance on time.
Remember that this is a process that takes time, not only to assemble the required papers, but also so that the new card should come but if you know this date, the process will be facilitated to him.
If you can, write the expiry date of the cards of insurance of each of the persons that they should have sure and like that you can be checking it and proceed on time.
Also scribe in a role sheet the date in which you or any of the familiar members have his next annual examination so that he does not forget to do the appointment on time and keeps this sheet in the same place.
The annual examinations are longer than the regular checkups and that's why, the appointments need to be done by more time because they are more scarce.
If some person in the family must do permanent checkups to herself like that of the pressure, the cholesterol, the mamografía or the examination of prostate, between others, write also the approximate date in which it must do them to itself and this way always it will know.
The year begins with the right pié.
Although much of what passes every year in our lives it is uncertain and we can neither predict it nor programme, we can help to bring him good elements to help that is one more positive, prosperous year and especially, healthy.
Remember that of a good health, a better stability depends for one and his family.
| Between parentheses |
| Racial breach is extended in deaths by colon cancer |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
The racial breach in the number of deaths as a consequence of the colon cancer seems to be extending, it indicated a new study, and some experts blamed partly to the minor examinations valuations between the blacks and to a minor access of these to medical care of quality.
The mortality valuations for cases of cancer in the colon and in the rectum are now almost 50 % more raised between the blacks than between the targets, in accordance with a study of the Oncological Society American spread Monday.
The breach has been growing from middle of the decade of 1970, when the mortality valuations for cancer in the colon for both racial groups were almost equal.
“ We have seen a big progress between the targets. We might be observing the same success between the blacks, if we should overcome the disparities in the access to the health services”, pointed out Elizabeth Ward, who supervises the alertness and the politics of health of the oncological society.
The cancer colorrectal is the third prime mover of death for cancer in the United States. Approximately 50 thousand Americans will die as a consequence of the illness in this year, according to calculations of the American Society of the Cancer.
Last month, the investigators informed that the valuation of new cases of cancer in general has diminished lightly and that the mortality valuations keep on being reduced in the United States, quite encouraging news in the combat to the fearsome illness.
Nevertheless, in the related to the colon cancer, the improvement has been major between white patients than between the blacks, it indicated the report.
The diagnosis valuation between the blacks was 19 % top that that of the targets in 2005, the most recent date of the one that statistics have.
The disparity in the mortality valuation was even more drastic. Between the blacks, there were approximately 25 deaths for every 100.000 persons, compared to 17 deaths for every 100 thousand between the targets, a difference of 48 %.
The mortality valuations between two ethnic groups were similar up to the decade of 1980, when the colon cancer began to provoke more deaths between the blacks than between the targets.
The investigators said that it was not clear why the mortality between the blacks increased in the decade of 1980, but apparently this breach has kept on being extended to sorrow that the mortality valuation between the blacks has begun to lower again.
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