lainfo.es reported Colombia’s government said Tuesday it will restrict access to its territory to all persons who have been in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria during the last month as a measure to prevent the arrival of Ebola in the country. Information outlined in the Colombian Foreign Ministry Radio Caracol require that national interests will be denied access to visas to all passengers who visited West Africa or suspected symptoms of Ebola. Read Article
Ecuador invests resources to avoid the entry of ebola, despite low risk Quito, Oct. 14 (Andes) –Health Minister of Ecuador, Carina Vance, said the risk of Ebola in Ecuador is low, however the government is taking all the measures proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to prevent the entry of the virus that has […]
(EFE).-Argentina has developed a diagnostic method of molecular biology that allows to diagnose or rule out ebola virus in less than 24 hours, the Argentine Ministry of Health reported today in a release. The method was developed by the Malbrán Institute of the mailing date of viral genetic material from a focal point of the […]
time.com reported the Pentagon’s top commander in South America has warned that if Ebola surfaces in Central America or the Caribbean, there will be a stampede of people heading north across the Rio Grande to the U.S. to escape the disease. “If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be […]
theguardian.com reported access to surgery is a major problem in Ecuador, home to the Andes, the Amazon River and rainforest. Many of those in poorer and remote areas cannot travel to seek surgical care in larger cities for many reasons, including the cost of travel and the impact of leaving their jobs and families at […]
eluniverso.com reported Brazilian health authorities isolated a man presenting possible symptoms of ebola, so it will be transferred to Rio de Janeiro for a best watching, according to the website of ‘O Globo According to Brazilian media, the man – who returned to Brazil 19 days ago after traveling to Africa and whose identity has […]
unomasuno.com.mx reported the director general of the Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Héctor Raúl Pérez Gómez, reported that in 2013 463 women died because of breast cancer, so the health sector in the State is attached to detect and prevent this disease. He said that in Mexico and most of Latin America its detection occurs in […]
caracol.com.co reported the mysterious case of mass blackouts that occurred in the municipality of el Carmen de Bolívar, in which 300 girls were affected after the implementation of the vaccine against the human papilloma virus, has had repercussions throughout the country, to such an extent that the vaccination rate has fallen precipitously in the different […]
globalhealthprogress.org reported Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, applauds the government of Ecuador on being the second country in the world to receive World Health Organization (WHO) verification of the elimination of river blindness (onchocerciasis) using MECTIZAN® (ivermectin). Ecuador worked in partnership with the MECTIZAN Donation Program and The Carter Center-sponsored […]
news.yahoo.com/AP reported — An excruciating mosquito-borne illness that arrived less than a year ago in the Americas is raging across the region, leaping from the Caribbean to the Central and South American mainland, and infecting more than 1 million people. Some cases already have emerged in the United States. While the disease, called chikungunya, usually […]
Theguardian.com reported Breast implants shortage hits plastic surgery clinics in Venezuela Brand-name implants almost impossible to obtain, say surgeons as currency controls affect imports In Venezuela, cosmetic procedures are often regarded as a normal, even necessary rite of passage for young women. But the currency crisis, which has already caused chronic shortages of staple foods, […]
Health Promotion in Ecuador: A Solution for a Failing System Dana Rasch1, Krista Bywater ABSTRACT In 2008, the newly written Ecuadorian Constitution guaranteed access to healthcare for all citizens. Consequently, a vast amount of resources have been directed toward rebuilding the public healthcare system, which was in shambles due to the effects of neoliberalism. Although […]
RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Ecological, biological and social dimensions of dengue vector breeding in five urban settings of Latin America: a multi-country study Juliana Quintero and others Abstract Background: Dengue is an increasingly important public health problem in most Latin American countries and more cost-effective ways of reducing dengue vector densities to prevent transmission are […]
2000 cases of Chikunguaya Virus reported in Colombia eluniverso.com reported in Sincelejo, northern Colombia, the first fatality of the chikungunya virus was recorded last Monday. Meanwhile, on the northern border, health officials reported that actions between Ecuador and the country are co-ordinated to prevent possible infection in areas where the virus could arise. Read Article
medicalexpress.com reported recently published prevalence estimates of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in five Latin American countries—Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela—could suggest a new direction for United States foreign policy in the region, according to a tropical-disease expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Dr. Peter Hotez, the fellow in disease and poverty […]
globalnews.ca reported Canada’s health care system isn’t perfect but here’s another warning for anyone considering faster, cheaper surgery abroad. A North Vancouver woman who traveled to Mexico for a gastric sleeve procedure is still suffering, more than a year after she returned home to B.C. Two days after she had the surgery in Mexico, she […]
telesurtv.net reported every month 1,835 people are being executed, according to Semanario Zeta, a weekly newspaper from northern Mexico. During the first 21 months of Enrique Peña’s mandate, 30,789 people have been killed, according to new data recently released by the Mexican government this Wednesday. The most violent region in the country, according to the […]
rotativo.com.mx reported,-more than a thousand cases of the Chikungunya virus detected in Colombia, set alarms on the border with Ecuador, where controls have been strengthened to its high probability of admission. The announcement of Colombian health authorities that there would be more than one thousand of affected by the disease, transmitted by the Aedes aegypti, […]
lainformacion.com reported the Latin American countries, where there are between seven and nine million infected with the hepatitis C virus, should expand the routine tests to detect it until severe symptoms make obvious your presence, noted experts. the Latin American countries, where there are between seven and nine million infected with the hepatitis C virus, […]
aulamedica.es /Sylvia Gallegos Espinosa, Marcelo Nicolalde Cifuentes, Sergio Santana Porbén, for the Ecuadorian Group for the Study of Hospital Malnutrition* ABSTRACT Hospital malnutrition is a global health problem affecting 30-50% of hospitalized patients. There are no estimates of the size of this problem in Ecuadorian hospitals. Hospital malnutrition might influence the quality of medical assistance […]
panoramasnews.com reported the representative in Mexico of the Red Latinoamericana counseling nursing in Sexual Health and adolescent reproductive, Araceli Jiménez, announced that in some communitiesthechildren start their sexual life to 10 years of age,without information about contraception,family planningor STDs. In a statement of the UNAM, the specialist said that if thefirst relationship occurs in a […]
Border Militarization and Health: Violence, Death and Security in Mexico and the United States bepress.com ABSTRACT: Key Words: Violence, Trauma, Border Security, Migration Despite proposed increases in spending on personnel and equipment for border enforcement tied to the amended version of the U.S. Senate’s current immigration reform bill, the public health impacts of border militarization […]
paginasiete.bo reported 299 cases of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the syndrome of acquired immunodeficiency (AIDS) in La Paz were reported from January to the date: 10% more than in 2013, reported the departmental health service (Headquarters). “In this administration, so far have had 299 cases, compared to last year, when we had 230 […]
Issues New Compulsory Licenses; Signs Harmful Trade Agreement with the EU infojustice.org [Luz Marina Umbasia and Peter Maybarduk, In July, Ecuador issued four compulsory licenses for medicines targeting cancer and arthritis treatment and immunological reception to kidney transplant.[1] These licenses authorize cost-cutting generic competition with patented medicines, in exchange for royalty payments to the patent […]
DOCTORS BEING ASSAULTED BY PATIENT’S FAMILIES noticiascaracol.com reported they belong to a public hospital in which relatives, angry at the lack of inputs, have attacked medical personnel. In Caracas, Venezuela, doctors and nurses in a public hospital protested aggressions suffered by relatives of the patients. Medical professionals say that they have no protection and can […]
eluniverso.com reported according to these data, 2012 the rate of suicide in Ecuador, with respect to the year 2000, increased by 3.4%. In the division by sex, femenidos suicide rate decreased by 8%, while they rose 9% male suicides. The report specifies, on Ecuador and other countries, to the civil registry has low coverage and […]
eluniverso.com reported the dengue vaccine developed by the French pharmaceutical Sanofi has shown an efficacy of 60.8 percent in tests with children and teenagers practiced in Latin America, and is effective against all four serotypes of the disease, the company said today. Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine company division, explained that 20.875 children underwent a study […]
andes.info.ec reported Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa emphasized that he will not allow population is mistreated by public services. He also stated that he had received complaints from patients of Eugenio Espejo Hospital, although in 2011, he had given the order of that relatives must be assigned a place to stay while they wait for emergency […]
elcomercio.pe reported the National police and the Municipality of Lima was closed yesterday with blocks of concrete seven hostels of Lima unsanitary and unsafe. The settlements are located on the fourth and fifth block of the Guzmán Blanco Avenue, the avenida 28 de Julio and the block 5 of the shred Cervantes. The operation started […]
nssoaxaca.com reported there were 190 million poor in 2000; in 2012, it was reduced to 134 million United Nations explains that citizens in extreme poverty are those who receive up to four dollars a day. Latin Americans in this situation were 189,9 million in 2000, 41.7% of a population of 454,9 million people. In 12 […]
critica.com.pa reported 2 new cases of [a] hantavirus [infection] were confirmed by the Ministry of Health in Los Santos [province], one in San Jose de Las Tablas and the other in Tonosi. Nahir Cedeno, Regional Health Director in Los Santos, stated that these cases were a 27-year-old young man and a 70-year-old man, both of […]
cadenagramonte.cu reported Ecuador managed to reduce maternal mortality from 70 per 100 thousand live births in 2011 to 46.6 now, but much is yet to be done, according to a source from the Health Ministry quoted here by local press reports. Coordinator of the Strategy for a Quick Reduction of the Maternal Mortality Rate, Veronica […]
ecuavisa.com reported government officials said that the Ecuadorian industry will be called on to produce to replace imported drugs, which have begun to run short in the market following the announcement of the setting of price ceilings or ceilings. So it said Deputy Minister of industry and productivity, Byron Proano, who Wednesday participated in Guayaquil […]
elcomunista.net reported the Ecuadorian Government has imposed a system of labelling for processed products which alerts on the content of fat, salt and sugar. The Pan American Health Organization issued an alert for the rates of obesity and overweight in Ecuador. The Government activated a series of public policies to combat it. On Tuesday the […]
PARENTS THREATEN TO SHUT HIGHWAY DOWN IF CAUSE OF ILLNESS IS NOT DETERMINED eltiempo.com reported health officials meet Monday in the municipality of el Carmen de Bolívar, Department of Bolivar, to determine the reasons for a general crisis in health with 82 girls, belonging to three schools. “All the children are nausea, headache and weakness […]
eltiempo.com reported Brazilian health authorities announced that they will do an investigation to determine the circumstances in which a man declared dead in a hospital in the State of Bahia, was removed with life and driven to the morgue. The erroneous statement of death investigation was opened against the perpetrators of the Menander Farias Hospital […]
fews.net reported as a result of projected poor harvests in 2014, the reduction in coffee-sector income for day laborers, and a more rapid than usual increase in the prices of some staple foods, extremely poor households across large areas of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador will experience a rapid deterioration in their food security […]
plenglish.com reported Colombia’s Vice-Minister of Health Fernando Ruiz confirmed today a new case of Chikungunya. The virus was detected in a person traveling to Bogota from the Dominican Republic. According to the medical diagnosis, the patient is under observation and doctors are trying to determine his level of contagion. Read Article
Chikungunya Fever Cases Reported in Latin America – (excludes Caribbean) Costa Rica, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela. (source: CDC) Worldbank.org reported Chikungunya fever is spreading more rapidly through Latin America and the Caribbean than it takes to learn to spell and pronounce its name correctly. The virus has already […]
andes.info.ec REPORTED…95% of large and medium-sized companies that manufacture food in Ecuador adjusted to the new rules of graphic labeling on nutritional content, which was demanded by the Ministry of Health in 2013. According to the National Regulatory Agency, Health Surveillance and Control (Arcsa), there are 10.102 processed foods nationwide, corresponding to large, medium, small […]
ecuadortimes.net reported last Tuesday in Quito, doctors and medical students marched to ask the Judicial Council to prepare judges to judge their cases and to reject the twelve-month sentence of imprisonment imposed on one of their colleagues. Victor Alvarez, vice president of the Medical Federation, said that his colleagues remain concerned about how judges will […]
andes.info.ec reported the Minister of Health of Ecuador, Carina Vance, confirmed this Tuesday the project of building a pharmaceutical plant that will stand in Yachay, and in its first phase, it will allow savings of $48 million annually, for the Public Integral Network Health. The building is part of “Ciudad del Conocimiento”, a center dedicated […]
HOSPITALS ARE VIRTUALLY CLOSED portafolio.co reported for the President of the Venezuelan medical Federation, Douglas León Natera, Venezuelan hospitals are “virtually closed”. In its estimates, 98 percent of them does not operate. “If you see open is because the team strives to fulfill the work under your own risk,” said. It has, for example, that […]
paho.org reported new eHealth initiatives are springing up in countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, in parallel with the increasing use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the region. These initiatives have the potential to improve access to and quality of health care, yet few countries have policies in place to guide […]
eltiempo.com reported the issue has gained relevance in recent days due to the severe situation facing La Guajira in terms of drought and to the imminent arrival of el Niño. As a result, President Juan Manuel Santos made his first field visit to this Department, on second day of his new mandate. In this Department, […]
plenglish.com reported About 200 Cuban physicians will travel today towards several regions of Ecuador, to work in vulnerable and difficult access zones, to contribute to the governmental objective to ensure health services for the entire population. According to a report posted at El Ciudadano website, the mission of those physicians, specialists in Family Medicine and […]
plenglishThe Peruvian Government issued a warning on Friday to all medical services due to a possible risk of imported Ebola cases in the country. The General Epidemiology Directorate (DGE), attached to the Ministry of Health, recommended all its institutions to take surveillance actions in light of possible Ebola patients arriving from abroad. Read Article
A continuing HIV epidemic and differential patterns of HIV-STI risk among MSM in Quito, Ecuador: an urgent need to scale up HIV testing and prevention. Jacobson JO1, Sánchez-Gómez A, Montoya O, Soria E, Tarupi W, Chiriboga Urquizo M, Champutiz Ortiz E, Miranda SM, Tobar R, Gómez B, Riera C. Author information Abstract This study characterized […]
Cancer mortality and quantitative oil production in the Amazon region of Ecuador, 1990–2010 Suresh H. Moolgavkar1 , Ellen T. Chang1, Heather Watson2 and Edmund C. Lau1 Abstract Purpose Controversy persists over whether cancer risk is increased in communities surrounding oil fields, especially in the Oriente region of Ecuador. This ecologic study uses quantitative exposure data, […]
lainformacion.com reported the Ministry of health of Costa Rica today suggested to the Costa Rican avoid travel to Dominican Republic, due to the number of cases reported to the country of the chinkunguna virus. “If a person does not have the need to go, it is better not to do it, it is a suggestion […]
coha.org reported Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a collection of chronic, bacterial, parasitic, and viral diseases that have remained largely unnoticed and uncured by the global community.[1] NTDs affect the lives of more than 1.5 billion people worldwide and cause, on average, the death of more than 500,000 people each year, most of whom live […]
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) –The Ministry of Health is preparing for the declaration of a ‘green alert’ for chikungunya in the country. According to the Director of Health Surveillance, Dr. Mary Ethel Trejos, they are already collecting all the specific information to be presented to the National Emergency Commission and thus have a well-founded […]
dailymail.co.uk – The dead bodies of illegal immigrants are turning up in south Texas as Central Americans pour across the U.S.-Mexico border, and a veterinarian who ranches cattle 70 miles from ground zero has the photos to prove it. Dr. Mike ‘Doc’ Vickers of Brooks County, Texas showed some of the grisly images to MailOnline, […]
wfmynewsw.com reported in the U.S., few people know about the Chagas disease which is an life-threatening illness passed to humans by “kissing bugs,” or triatomines, living in Latin America. CDC figures that some 300,000 people may be infected here in the U.S. Some 8 million people have Chagas disease, a life-threatening illness passed to humans […]
eluniverso.com reported El Oro health authorities are investigating the death of a young woman of 22 years whose underlying cause would be serious dengue, according to the death of the IESS hospital. She died the night of Wednesday at the hospital of the Social Security. Her husband said that the weekend before she went to […]
theatlantic.com reported… According to Dr. Susan Montgomery, who leads the epidemiology team at the CDC, American doctors started to hear about Chagas disease in 2007 when blood banks in the U.S. began screening for it and sending people letters informing them that they had tested positive and should see their physicians. Health care providers started […]
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theatlantic.com reported…Recent studies have found that Latinos are the racial and ethnic group least likely to visit the doctor. More than one-fourth of Latino adults in the United States lack a usual healthcare provider and almost half of Latinos never visit a medical professional during the course of the year. Other reports show that Latinos […]
Eluniverso.com reported dengue cases are on uptick so far in 2014. The three provinces most impacted are Esmeraldas, Guayas and El Oro Province. The number of cases is higher then for the same time in 2013. In other provinces, the number of cases has diminished. So far in 2014 (26 weeks) there have been 9,705 […]
Ecuadvisa.com reported The Ministry of Health took samples to investigate the causes that led to a weekend a mass poisoning in Santa Rosa, in the province of El Oro. There were 405 people reported ill. Ten of the victims remain hospitalized with abdominal pain, fever and dehydration. Individuals started feeling ill after consuming chicken and […]
eluniverso.com reported Emerging Pasaje Canton Operations Committee told this canton in State of health emergency by cases of dengue have been registered. In this jurisdiction have been reported 24 people with dengue fever during the first 28 weeks of the year (until the first of July), four of them serious. In the province of El […]
npr.org reported this latest scourge in Haiti is chikungunya. It’s a rarely fatal but intensely painful mosquito-borne virus that has spread rapidly through the Caribbean and parts of Latin America after local transmission first started in tiny French St. Martin late last year, likely brought in by an infected air traveler. Haiti is proving to […]
Petroamazonas and municipal governments in the province of Sucumbíos I be delivered from Monday a thousand food rations for 10 communities affected by the spill of oil that polluted the rivers Parahuaico and Aguarico Wednesday, reported on its website El Comercio. About 2,000 barrels of oil spilled last Wednesday due to a landslide that common […]
noticias.yahoo.com reported a French tourist is the first infected the virus chikunguna which is confirmed in Costa Rica, although authorities do not rule out that this is an imported case, said today the Ministry of health. The Director of epidemiological surveillance, María Ethel Trejos, said at a press conference that it is not excluded that […]
business-standard.com reported a US laboratory sold across at least eight countries, including India, blood samples taken without consent from an indigenous group, Ecuador alleged today after a months-long investigation. The samples were taken from the Huaorani ethnic group of about 3,000 people who live in a corner of Ecuador’s isolated Amazon basin region, it is […]
For 10 years, major fumigation campaigns in the villages have eliminated the fleas that transmit Chagas’ disease in many Latin American countries. But, in several regions, these insects, including those that are the main vector species called Triatoma infestans, persist or are reappearing in human habitat. How can this phenomenon be explained? IRD researchers and […]
eluniversal.com reported this year it seems that malaria will once again break all-time highs in terms of the number of cases registered in the country and is that at last Epidemiological bulletin of the Ministry of health, which comprises of 18-24 may record a total of 31,761 cases of this disease in the country. An […]
satiagotimes.cl reported experts blame drinking culture and advertising as WHO report says Chile leads Latin America in alcohol consumption — region second only to Europe globally. A new report reveals that Chile has surpassed its Latin American neighbors in alcohol consumption for the first time, an everyday Chilean guzzles three liters of alcohol above the […]
Nathalie Cely/Ecuador’s Ambassador to the U.S. wrote: In March, a little girl died scared and alone in a shelter in Mexico, lost on a perilous journey from the mountains of Ecuador to join her family in New York, more than 3,000 miles away. The death of 12-year old Noemi Alvarez Quilloy puts a tragic, human […]
elpais.com reported in Mexico, half of women aged 12 to 19 who start their sexual life become pregnant. Data are from the last national survey of health and nutrition, and reveal a structural problem that this week has once again become news. The holder of the portfolio of Social Development Rosario Robles, who runs a […]
thebahamasweekly.com reported a new United Nations report shows that 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have made significant progress in reducing deaths from pregnancy-related causes since 1990. However no country in the region is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing maternal mortality 75% by 2015. The 11 countries […]
bbc.com reported…Football fans going to the World Cup in Brazil should be aware of the risk of dengue fever, a UK expert warns. The tropical disease, spread by mosquito bites, could be a problem in three of the 12 host cities next summer, says Prof Simon Hay, of Oxford University. There are no vaccines or […]
eluniversal.com.mx reported that according to Cofepris, Jalisco is a State where there is a high marketing of illegal drugs; in the last two years here has managed to seize 96% of the products seized in the entire country. At the end of 2013, the Agency reported on a historic seizure: secured 166 tons of medicine […]
ELUNIVERSO.COM reported …sentenced to a year in prison two doctors accused of lack of attention in emergency situation French Charlotte Mazoyer, who died after being the Sixth Court of Pichincha guarantees criminal gunshot wound in an assault in Quito, in 2009. The hearing of the trial, which began last Monday, concluded last night after the […]
Eluniverso.com reported that the trial began yesterday in Quito for two doctors accused of allegedly not providing emergency medical care to a French citizen in 2009. On September 12, 2009, Charlotte Mazoyer, a volcanologist, resisted a robbery attempt in Guápalo (Quito). She was shot in the chest which left her seriously wounded. According to witnesses, […]
862 dead ones at Easter in Latin America, most in accidents In Ecuador, there were 6 people, according to a report by the Red Cross. VISTAZO.com reportedBogota, Colombia-at least 862 people died during the celebration of Holy week in Latin America, where according to balance-sheet delivered today by the authorities, traffic accidents remain the leading […]
theguardian.com reported …. From potatoes to deodorant, toilet paper and bottled beer, Cubans have come to accept chronic shortages as an inevitable part of life after more than half a century of communist rule. Now a shrinking supply of condoms has upset residents of the Caribbean island nation and alarmed health officials who are worried […]
foxnews.com reported…Diriomo is a small town located about a half hour southwest of Granada, a city with an abundance of colonial charm. Marta Vasconcelos, director of tourism and culture for Diriomo’s municipal government, says a growing number of foreign visitors are coming to the town in search of real witches. Vasconcelos recently told a Nicaraguan […]
IPS reported Latin America is not taking the new global agreement to limit mercury emissions seriously: the hazardous metal is still widely used and smuggled in artisanal gold mining and is released by the fossil fuel industry. After the European Union banned exports of mercury in 2011 and the United States did so in 2013, […]
ultimasnoticiasenred.com.mx reported that Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.The figure of the first cases of dengue fever in Tamaulipas arrived in 25 cases reported today the Secretary of health in the State, Norberto Treviño Garcia-Manzo, who said that the same dates last year were reported 104 cases of dengue fever. HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF MOVING TO ECUADOR? READ […]
Theguardian.com reported that Peruvian women intent on bringing state to book over forced sterilisations Women sterilised in the late 1990s under a Peruvian government scheme show no signs of relenting in their long fight for justice. Their legal case began in 2003, when the state paid compensation to the family of Mamérita Mestanza, who died […]
theguardian.com reported…Cholera epidemic in Haiti ‘poses major threat to Latin America and Caribbean’ UN assistant secretary general says deadly outbreak, which has been blamed on UN troops, demands decisive action. Haiti needs a “Marshall plan” for water and sanitation to quell a cholera epidemic which poses a major threat to the Caribbean and Latin America, […]
Haitians launch new lawsuit against UN over thousands of cholera deaths Plaintiffs hold UN responsible for outbreak of disease, which they say was carried into Haiti by peacekeepers from Nepal. The United Nations is facing a huge new lawsuit over the outbreak of cholera in Haiti that has widely been blamed on its peacekeepers, after […]
Elpais.com reported that about 6 million and a half of Mexicans have been diagnosed with diabetes and it is estimated that this figure will be rising due to the high number of overweight and obese adults, that together they reach 48 million people, according to the national health and nutrition 2012 survey. This chronic disease […]
cadenagramonte.cu reported that Cuba has treated more than five thousand patients with stem cells, figure that places the country in an important position in the region for the use of regenerative medicine, the Cuban journal Granma published today. Doctor Porfirio Hernández, deputy director of the Research Institute of Hematology and Immunology, told Granma that this […]
In Ecuador, Helicobacter pylori infections are highly prevalent. A total of 42 H. pylori clinical isolates from 86 patients attending the outpatient clinic of the gastroenterology department of the university hospital of Guayaquil in Ecuador were characterized. Their susceptibility, and cagA and vacA status were determined. Resistance to metronidazole and clarithromycin was found in 80.9% […]
Chagas disease has been added to the list of ailments with a significant outbreak throughout Venezuela. According to the Ministry of Health, only in the first three weeks of 2014, 334 events of the dangerous infection were recorded. For instance, the week of January 12-18, 175 cases of the infection caused by the parasite Trypanosoma […]
telemetro.com reported that 9 cases of hantavirus [infections] have been reported this year [2014] in Panama. Seven of the the nine cases are located in Las Tablas and Los Santos province. There has been one recorded death. A majority of cases have come from the Azuero region of Panama. Read Article HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF […]
larepublica.pe reported that in Peru, the problem of infertility is becoming increasingly more troubling: two of every ten couples would be felt from this disease. According to Dr. Julio Diaz Pinillos, specialist in infertility of birth – Lima-human reproduction centre, about 20% of people are affected by infertility problems. “We speak of that two of […]
elcomercio.com reported that Social Security authorities will be ready by February 15 the project of a national system for the allocation of appointments. The national director of health of the IESS, José María Egas, told this newspaper that the provision that on 1 March start service is final, so looking to have a proposed consolidated […]
Elcomercio.com reported that Ecuador registered an average of 13 dead and 152 injured per day due to traffic accidents, caused mainly by the inexperience and recklessness of drivers, reported Thursday, February 6 observatories citizens who promote safety on roads. The director of Covial, Víctor Jiménez, told the press that, according to figures from various government […]
elcomercio.com reported that on February 5, 2014, was issued on remand against a doctor in the city of Ibarra, in the northern province of Imbabura, in Ecuador. It is Dr. Miguel t., anesthesiologist, who was arrested by police a day earlier, to 22:00, after the operation of a child who died in the operating room. […]
theguardian.com reported that water in Mexico City comes out of the tap in a variety of colours (yellow, rusty or earthy tints), flavours (sulphuric, chlorinated or metallic) and textures (muddy or gritty). Water that doesn’t smell, taste or look funky, however, is actually more dangerous, for it can sucker people into believing that it’s drinkable. […]
Abstract sti.bmj.com reported…Objectives This study aimed to obtain nationally representative estimates of HIV and syphilis prevalence and coverage of preventive antenatal services in pregnant women in Ecuador, in order to develop a national strategy for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. Methods A national probability sample of 5988 women presenting for delivery […]
lahora.com.ec reported that the objective is to prevent the reproduction of the Aedes aegypti. Starting today, workers of health of Guayas will leave to fulfill tasks of fumigation to prevent the spread of dengue vectors carriers. Luis Palomeque, director of the National Malaria Eradication (SNEM), said that the work which began in 2013, when surrendered […]
eluniverso.com reported that a contingency plan to replace physicians who give in State hospitals will be set up by the Ministry of health and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is recruiting foreign specialists. Yesterday said President Rafael Correa, in your link, as a response to the resignations this week and the criticisms of the […]
telegrafo.com.ec reported that aAfter a process of research, the health portfolio next to the Fiscalía closed this company that has its facilities in the North of the city of Quito. The company Adipharm Express S.A., responsible for storing pharmaceuticals, was closed yesterday to keep in their cellars medicines expired from 2012 and others without registration. […]
Eluniverso.com reported that the number of doctors who presented this Wednesday the resignation at the public hospital Pablo Arturo Suárez de Quito as a rejection of the contents of article 146 where the wrongful death by professional malpractice is typified climbed to 90. Patricio Guerrero, representative of Anesthesiology of the Hospital, announced that until past […]
laht.com reported that authorities on Thursday rescued 17 people who had been held at a clandestine clinic where patients were subjected to electroshock and even rape, the Ecuadorian Attorney General’s Office said. Among the people freed is a minor, who said that he “was tortured with electricity to ‘heal’ his behavior problem,” the AG’s office […]
AP.com reported that a mosquito-borne virus appears to be spreading quickly in the Caribbean during the winter tourism season just weeks after epidemiologists first found local transmission occurring in the French dependency of St. Martin. Scientists said Tuesday that St. Martin now has as many as 200 cases of chikungunya. Read Article MORE ABOUT THIS […]