30% of Mexicans have suffered an STD

About 30% of Mexicans between 18 and 30 years of age have suffered from a sexually transmitted disease. Daily, about 15% of patients with this diagnosis are detected and treated. The diseases with...

Address these basic pillars

Mexico is an unpredictable country regarding its climate. We can wake up with a cold morning and a few hours later there is a warm atmosphere. Although we are used to dealing with it, it is...

5 causes of appendicitis

One of the most common diseases in the population is the appendicitis. This condition is characterized by inflammation of the appendix, which is a small sack attached to intestine thick. Its main...

Alert in young people for cases of gonorrhea

In Mexico, 3 out of 10 young people between 18 and 30 have suffered from a sexually transmitted disease (STD). And is that eleven million Mexicans start their sex life at age 14. According to data...

Porphyria attacks can be deadly

The porphyrias they are a group of hereditary disorders in which a significant part of the hemoglobin, call heme (is the storage of iron in the Red blood cells, responsible for the transport of...

STIs increase in Mexico as syphilis

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have increased in Mexico, according to the epidemiology bulletin of the Ministry of Health, which covers February 28 to March 6, 2010, particularly genital...

How to prevent syphilis

Worldwide, diseases or sexually transmitted infections (ITS) affect one in 10 young people between 15 and 24 years old and increasingly older adults over 45 years. Unfortunately, Latin America still...

Colposcopy detects vaginal cancer

The colposcopy is a diagnostic procedure performed by gynecologists to inspect the cervix for some signs of Cancer, so it is usually done as a result of an abnormal test result papanicolau.The...

Learn all about organ donation

The list of patients waiting for a transplant of organ, is very large. However, the objective of the Mexican authorities is to make the population more aware of the importance of organ...

Diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhea

The gonorrhea It is more common in large cities, in sectors of population with low levels of education and among people of depressed socioeconomic status. The greatest risk is for young people...

Multiple sclerosis could originate in the cerebral cortex

The study carried out jointly by researchers from Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic, could support the idea that the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) it is essentially an inflammatory disease and not...

Students lie about sexual behavior

About 10% of adults young boysthey tested positive in the tests sexually transmitted infections, after reporting sexual abstinence and half being virgin, reports a study published by the medical...

Mental illness generates disability in young people

Schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder or alcoholism are the conditions that cause disability between 10 and 24 years old. More than one billion people in the world suffer from some kind of...

Gout causes kidney failure

The drop is an inflammatory disease related to metabolism of uric acid, because it occurs when a person overproduces it or because it can not be discarded, reported Gabriela Huerta Sil, physician...

Sexually transmitted germs

The sexually transmitted diseases (ETS) at man They have the same causes as in women, with the only difference being the symptoms that mark their masculine anatomy. Prevention is easy and avoids...

Gonorrhea is declared as an incurable disease

Recent investigations of the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that the treatment of gonorrhea It is insufficient to alleviate it. This is because the strains of this disease became resistant...

Preventive injection against liver cancer

Injecting the vaccine against the hepatitis B virus is of paramount importance to avoid consequences of the infection, such as liver cancer, liver failure and cirrhosis.In the United States, children...

Genital herpes, a bad for life

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) around 536 million people in the world, between 15 and 49 years of age, are infected with the genital herpes virus, which is contracted through sexual...

Hepatitis C increases by tattoos

Experts of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention United States (CDC), found that tattoos made by "amateur" people increases the risk of suffering hepatitis C. On the contrary, the studies...

There is a greater risk of having another infection if you already have a

When a person suffers some Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI), you have ten times more risk of having another sexually transmitted infection. For this reason, whenever an STI is found, the test...