Recently, a group of scientists reported through a study the detection of a new type of virus of animal origin, the Langya henipavirus. Published in the scientific journal “New England Journal of Medicine”, the article followed the virus for years and managed to record 35 cases of infected people between 2018 and 2021. According to […]
Category: Healthcare
“Cannabis legalization will allow us to act more effectively to further protect our fellow citizens”
PNearly 18 million of our fellow citizens have already used cannabis recreationally, According to the last report of the National Assembly. Although it is prohibited 1.5 million consume it regularly. Whether we like it or not, this is a social issue that must be handled by public authorities. It is the legislator’s responsibility to respond […]
Childhood obesity: discover the activities suitable for all ages
According to data released by the Ministry of Health, 6.4 million children in Brazil are overweight and 3.1 million are obese. Obesity affects 13.2% of children aged 5 to 9 in most cases. At these ages, 28% are already obese. In relation to children under 5, the average is 14.8% overweight. These data already demonstrate […]
What is vasculitis, a disease that has left Ashton Kutcher unable to see, hear and walk
Actor Ashton Kutcher, best known for his roles in the series “That’s 70’s Show” and “Two and a Half Men”, revealed during the show “Celebrities in the test of everything: The challenge”, with Bear Grylls, of the National Geographic, who was diagnosed with vasculitis. “Three years ago, I had this strange, very rare form of […]
Red meat can increase hardening of the arteries by 22%
Although many articles and researchers already describe that eating red meat can trigger different types of cardiovascular disease, such as arterial and coronary heart disease, the mechanism of this pathological process was unknown, until now! A new study from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts may have identified the pathway that links food to atherosclerosis: the […]
Climate change could worsen more than 200 human diseases
The feeling that many must have is that we are experiencing the famous “plagues of Egypt” with so many diseases in the foreground, right? In addition to still dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, we now have the monkeypox epidemic and, in some places, such as the UK and the US, the return of the polio […]
Covid-19: Rio de Janeiro will paralyze the vaccination of 3 and 4 year olds
The Rio de Janeiro Municipal Health Department reported that, starting this Tuesday (9), vaccination of children aged 3 to 4 with the first dose (D1) against Covid-19 will be paralyzed. According to information from Brazil agencythe reason would be the lack of doses, requested by the municipality of Rio last month, but not yet delivered. […]
In Rodes, outpatient geriatrics to optimize hospital resources
It’s 8:30 a.m. on this Monday in July, and Dr. Daniel Kaya-Vauri, head of the geriatrics department at Rhodes Hospital Center, walks into his office. He looks at his diary and goes to a ‘staff meeting’. In front of her 9-person nursing team (100% female), she is quick to recount her weekend. Although the weather […]
‘It’s a hellish descent’: geriatricians warn about caring for the elderly
Catherine Pflieger, 45, belongs to this generation of nurses for whom “It was a great honor to enter the public hospital”. He says this with great pride. That was twenty years ago, and it seems like another century, when the public service and its agents are facing a historic and existential crisis. “At that time […]
“The emergency department has become the main geriatric department of the hospital”
LThe new emergency crisis, which has forced several services to close their doors this summer, is symptomatic of a malaise in our health care system that it would be wrong to attribute solely to demographics. It is also the result of a profound upheaval in medical practice over the past thirty years. To be sure […]