Month: March 2012

new YORK (Reuters Health) – obese people participated in a program of weight management centers of community health adelgazaron and not recovered the kilos compared with a group that did not participate in the program, according to a study. Moreover, they were more likely to maintain controlled pressure until two years later. Participants were mainly belonging to poor and racial minorities, which are the two population groups of United States are more affected by obesity and the diseases, such as diabetes and heart, ills associated and the most difficult to achieve with the strategies of prevention. Due in part to these demographic characteristics, the results are “encouraging”, said Sara Bleich, school Public health at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Bloomberg and not participated in the study. “What usually happens (in weight management programs) “ is that people lose many kilos at the beginning and the “ return to recover quickly”, said. “Good thing (from this study) is that we are seeing a “ sustained reduction of body weight, albeit modest. “This reduction could reverse or alleviate a lot of diseases”, he added. The study was conducted in three community health centers of Boston. Randomly, about 400 obese adults under treatment of hypertension received usual care, which includes a brochure weight healthy or her participated in a program of weight management. Participants in the programme established small goals to achieve with the...

new YORK (Reuters Health) – according to a new study, colon cancer patients under 50 years of age and those of low income or unemployed were more likely to experience severe financial as a result of treatment problems to save their lives. The residents of the State of Washington to study were under treatment for colon cancer found that compared with seniors, 50 children had more than 50 times more possibility you need to sell or refinance their homes, lose 20 percent or more of the wage, borrow or request a loan to friends and family. Patients with incomes below $ 30,000 annual were eight times more likely to have these problems economic than those with higher incomes. “Most oncologists know these stories of “” patients that spend lots of money on their treatment”, said the Dr. Veena Shankaran, author of the study and oncologist of University of Washington. “They are stories that always we hear in clinics and wanted to know its extent”, added. The authors found that the majority of patients they do not talk with doctors about the cost of treatments and some saltearon up or rejected therapies for the price. Shankaran team performed a survey of 555 residents in several areas of the State of Washington with cancer advanced colon diagnosed between 2008 and 2010. Of the 284 responded, 104 had at least one problem...

managua, 16 mar (EFE).-the Nicaraguan authorities in coordination with non-governmental agencies today began testing the human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus to people over 60 years, for the first time in this country. Coordinator of HIV prevention in the Nicaraguan Ministry of the family, Carmen Olivares, told reporters that such reviews practice them among elderly in order to “remove the myths that older adults do not have sex and Yes do not”. Tests for HIV were made within the framework of a fair called “older adults are people with rights”, held this Friday in Managua. “They (over 60) have the culture that having sex do not need protection, which makes them vulnerable to the epidemic of HIV”, he warned the officer. According to Olivares, the elderly are considered to be immune to HIV and noted that while there is at present a low rate of the elderly with this epidemic in Nicaragua, “it is because it is not HIV test”. The doctor of the clinic of integral attention to men of the non-governmental Centre for education and AIDS prevention (Cepresi), René Gutiérrez, told Efe that they proposed to carry out HIV tests to 400 people older than 60 years, of which accepted only 20 of them 12 women, and none were positive. Specialist indicated that in the last year Cepresi has made 1,000 HIV testing to different populations, of which 10%...

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez announced Friday that was about to return to Venezuela after three weeks in Cuba, where operated a new tumor cancerous a few months before the elections in which aspirará for re-election convalesce. representative of 57 years, which had been declared cured last year, will in the coming weeks to radiotherapy treatment to combat the relapse of cancer was diagnosed and which has forced him to slow down its usual pace after three surgeries. “Good afternoon, good world.” We are now taking off from Jose Marti International Airport. “Heading south, towards La Patria”, published the President on the social network Twitter, without giving details on his health. “Raul (Castro) came to say goodbye to the airport and also send a martiano and Bolivarian greeting!” Viva Cuba! Viva Venezuela! “, said Chavez in another message, after reporting that he had eaten with former Cuban President Fidel Castro. “ Meanwhile, uncertainty reigns in the oil country, given that the Government saves the details about the disease and the treatment of the President with Hermeticism and speculation about his condition multiply. Analysts and physicians indicate that a radiotherapy treatment often cause side effects that could curb the momentum of the loquacious representative, who has become accustomed to Venezuelans to Marathon speeches and daily interventions in public events. It can play him against representative, favourite for the October...