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Pregnancy and Breast Cancer

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Pregnancy and breast cancerWhen breast cancer is associated with a pregnancy becomes a great challenge for the patient, family and physician. Health experts say that breast examination should be part of prenatal and postnatal
Although breast cancer or breast cancer is usually not a common condition in pregnancy, may occur during pregnancy or while giving birth (at the stage of puerperium or postnatal).

An estimated 1 case of breast cancer for every 3,000 pregnancies and a risk 2 to 3 times more developed in women who become pregnant for the first time after age 30 than in those who do before 20 .

It is known that abortion does not improve the prognosis of breast cancer, so it is not recommended except in special situations. Many pregnant women can undergo effective treatment against breast cancer and give birth to healthy babies.

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Swine influenza

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Swine influenzaInfluenza A (H1N1) in 2009 is a pandemic caused by a variant of influenza virus of swine origin (subtype H1N1).

Swine flu (or influenza, or the new influenza A/H1N1, and seasonal influenza (H1N1 and H3N2)) is a disease of the airways, is highly contagious, but usually with low mortality. Transmission occurred pig to man, what is worrying is that now is able to spread from person to person.

It is considered that the severity of influenza is related to the severity of the diseases that have been infected or age.

On June 11, following a surge of cases in a third continent (Australia, after the United States and Europe), WHO declared that the world faces a pandemic or an outbreak of influenza worldwide. Level 6 is an indication of the spread of the disease, its severity, which is currently defined moderate.

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Acute abdominal pain

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

How do you define acute abdominal pain?
Acute abdominal pain
Abdominal pain is the symptom that appears most frequently in clinical gastrointestinal disease. The causes are as diverse as triggers that make diagnosis difficult among them highlight the following:

  • Mechanical type
  • Inflammatory
  • Infectious
  • Failure of vascular supply by
  • Of tumoral

There are three types of abdominal pain

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Does anal bleeding should we care?

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Does anal bleeding should we care?

One of the most alarming symptoms present in our daily life is the appearance of blood when passing stools. The appearance of red blood from the anus, or coating the stool or mixed with these, you get the name “rectal.”

If any of you suffer, in principle, should know that is faced with a problem suffered by many others since, although the figures vary from one author to another, up to 20% of the population has ever had this problem. With these figures, the first logical conclusion is that most of the time usually caused by a trivial health problem.

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Pneumonia

Monday, January 4th, 2010

pneumoniaWhat is it?

Pneumonia is an acute inflammation of the lung, caused by infectious agents, but can also be caused by physical or chemical agents or inhaled or aspiration of gastric contents when the level of awareness is low or there is any disorder of swallowing.

We distinguish three categories:

  • Community-acquired pneumonia or community acquired: Occurs in people who have not been admitted to any institution.
  • Hospital-acquired pneumonia or nosocomial acquired during the hospital stay, even so called, those that occur within 10 days after hospital discharge.
  • Pneumonia in the immunocompromised host: We refer to them in those who show any degree of impairment of the immune system to facilitate the development of infection (diabetics, patients with cancer, chemotherapy, or liver cirrhosis patients infected with the AIDS virus ).

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Endometrial hyperplasia and cancer of the uterus

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

cancerEndometrial hyperplasia is an overgrowth of the mucous layer lining inside the uterus (called endometrium), usually secondary to hyperstimulation by estrogen (a sex hormone found in the female body).
Estrogen stimulates the growth of endometrial cells, a process that is subsequently reversed by the action of progesterone.

Hyperplasia may be due to different causes (exogenous estrogen administration, excessive ovarian production of them …) and can be of different degrees, being the most widely accepted classification, the divide in:

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Clean their ears?

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Cleaning earsIn the same genre as my article on the replacement of cotton to remove makeup, I talk now swabs.
A 2002 survey showed that 49% of French ears are cleaned daily and 33% several times a week. Immagine the number of cotton swabs found in the trash. An ecological gesture would be replaced by something more durable. And why not by anything?

Yes I can see doing big eyes, it was provocative, and yet … wash your ears every day is a heresy as well as using cotton swabs to do, and this is not about ecology, but hygiene and health!

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