Retinal detachment

The retinal detachment is a disease consisting of the separation of the light-sensitive membrane, located on the back of the eye, of its support layers and lose vision.When there is a retinal...

Mexican sport mourns the death of Mauricio Peña

The Mexican sport is in mourning, Mauricio Peña, former footballer of Pumas and Necaxa, died this August 31, victim of a terrible and silent degenerative disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis...

They develop implants against Parkinson's disease

The Nanotechnology Laboratory of the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Institute of Physical Sciences of the UNAM, in collaboration with the University of Tulane, of the United...

Autoimmune diabetes in university students

According to a study university students they may be more at risk of developing a less than daily form of diabetes. This strange presence could be associated with autoimmunity.We studied more than 56...

They discover hormone that triggers prostate cancer

In a breakthrough in the fight against prostate cancer, scientists have been able to identify the responsible hormones of a change in the genes that results in prostate cancer status. This discovery...

World Health Day 2011

In November 2010 the World Health Organization (WHO) presented the main conclusions of the World Health Report 2010 among which he assured that millions of people suffer Y they die because they do...

World day of scleroderma

The day of the scleroderma is celebrated on June 29, in commemoration of the anniversary of the death of the painter Paul Klee who suffered from this pathology and that currently affects about 300...

Disqualify the prostate exam by blood

A high level of Prostate Specific Antigen (APE) could mean that a man has prostate cancer. However, other diseases other than cancer (such as enlargement benign of the prostate waves Urinary...

Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

The multiple sclerosis It is a degenerative disease that affects a large part of the central nervous system. So far no cure has been found. However, the diagnosis to know if you live with this...

Difficult to revoke Obama's health reform

The cancellation of the federal health reform It was a central issue in the campaigns of Republican candidates in the United States, and although the recent triumph of the Republicans in the last...

Gluten-free diet treats celiac disease

It was once considered a rare disease, but this hereditary digestive disorder caused by gluten intolerance, affects the digestion process of the small intestine in more than 3 million people.The...

Differential diagnoses of multiple sclerosis

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testBy examining the cerebrospinal fluid of those who have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (EM), the electrophoretic patterns can be observed. These are composed of...

They discover why the influenza AH1N1 is deadly

According to the magazine Nature Medicine an exaggerated response of the immune system generates a fatal lung damage that ends with the death of young people with the virus AH1N1. Unlike other flu,...

Deaths from malaria decrease

The number of deaths for cases of malaria, in 11 of the most affected African countries, they halved during the last decade, the World Health Organization. The organization regretted in its annual...

Headache is treatable by electrodes

At the London Neurology and Neurosurgery Hospital, a very peculiar treatment is carried out against the cluster headache, which has shown a high level of efficacy in the treatment of this condition....

E. coli is transmitted from person to person

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed today (June 3, 2011) that intestinal bacteria E. coli Enterohemorrhagic (EHEC), which has caused the death of people in Germany, can be transmitted from...

Injectable drugs, first cause of hepatitis C

The hepatitis C it is a disease, produced by the same virus name (VHC),It affects more than 170 million people worldwide.It is usually spread through the contact with infected blood, can also be...

Various treatments to counteract lymphoma

Knowing that you have cancer of lymph cells, which is actually lymphoma, is more than enough to give you and your family a fright. The treatment of lymphoma is not easy, both physically and mentally...

Malaria or malaria can be cured

In 2008, 247 million cases of malaria or malaria were detected, killing nearly one million people, especially children in Africa. This is one of the conclusions of the last report of the World Health...

Effects of environmental pollution

Public health experts warn: those who live in Mexico City, have a chronic exposure to atmospheric pollutants that propitiate, in the medium or long term, a reduction in lung function.What does this...