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Twelve millions of mexicans suffer from depression without knowing it.
Depression is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual’s social functioning and activities of daily livin.
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A candy that alleviates bloated abdomen and other annoyances of premenstrual syndrome was developed by investigators of the IPN.
This candy is made of oregano (or Pot Marjoram). The active principles of this herb were analyzed and found that it has anti-inflammatory, digestive and antiseptic properties. That was the reason why they developed a candy that will help PMS sufferers and has a great taste. “It is common that women who suffer abdominal cramps during their menstrual period take a tea of oregano to resist the malaise and although is effective, it tastes bitter; it seemed a good idea to join all the properties of the oregano in a product that can be consumed at any timeâ€, said to Haydeé Hernandez Unzón, creator of the candy.
The British journal The Lancet chose as Paper of the Year an investigation published in January 2006 by Guillermo Ruiz-Palacios y Santos about rotavirus vaccine.
This study, included 63,225 breastfeeded infants and was first published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
With their conclusions, the Mexican government will change the National Vaccination Scheme, and now will include rotavirus vaccine.
Congratulations to Dr. Ruiz-Palacios and all the crew of the Human Rotavirus Vaccine Study Group.
An aquatic wheelchair that helps people in rehabilitation process (i.e. amputations) was created by students of the National Polytechnical Institute, Berenice Nieto Ãvila and Miguel Ãngel Herrera Ruiz.
This amphibious technology allows physiotherapists to do their job in a better environment and with less risk. It offers comfort, security and efficiency for the patients.
The structure of this device was made of nickel, floaters of polystyrene covered with fabric nylon and a mechanism that allow the necessary movements so that the patient can enter the bathtubs or pools, with no need of aid.
“With this chair the patient can move by himself without fear to sink or to hurt himsellfâ€, Miguel Ãngel Herrera emphasized.
The approximated weight of the chair within the water is of 15 kilograms (30 pounds approx) and supports a maximum weight of 150 kilos (300 pounds approx).
The creators will start a company dedicated to design, constructe and implement this kind of devices, focusing in rehabilitation techniques. At the moment they look for financing to commercialize their product and other innovations of rehabilitation field. The amphibious wheelchair obtained the first place of the Seventh Encounter of Entrepreneurs.
They are patients in a hospital, but they don’t suffer, because they are robotized models that allow students to learn without having the consequences of a real medical emergency.
It’s been a year since the beginning of the Certification and Training Center of Medical Aptitudes in the Medicine Faculty of the UNAM, 179 robots have served 19,496 students to solve urgencies: from acute coronary syndromes to high risk childbirth.
“If they don’t do it right, the patients will “dieâ€, and this is reflected in a real EKGâ€, said doctor Jose Alberto GarcÃa Aranda, coordinator of the CECAM.
An articulated prosthesis that reproduces the seven basic movements of the human arm, using the electrical impulses of the human body, was developed by a student of the National Polytechnic Institute (Instituto Politécnico Nacional).
Simón Guerrero Castillo, who in in December finished his Engineering in Communications and Electronics career, will obtain its title with this device, which is formed by three adaptable modules at different levels from amputation, is light and tries to be of low cost, because it is done with mexican and easy to obtain components.
“The arm works with microelectrical signals that generates the body, which are registered by a group of 22 to 26 electrodes that are placed in a customized shoulder reinforcement according to the stature of each patient. This electrodes switch-on the commands of execution of the arm to control variables like position, speed and pressureâ€, details Simón Guerrero, of 25 years.
He constructed this single prototype, in its house and with an investment of $18,000 pesos ($1,800 dlls.)
The movements of this device are very similar to the natural ones: wrist (left, right, up, down); turn of the forearm; rotation of the forearm; elbow and shoulder (elevation, up, down); opening and closing of the hand. These movements are made with nine small motors that operate with two nickel-cadmium batteries of 12 volts.
“My main motivation is to make a prosthesis that helps people in Mexico and that it has an accessible price, because unfortunately many arm amputations are suffered by people of low income that cannot pay a nice prosthesisâ€.
In order to install the arm to the patients surgery is not required.
Medical students practice parturition treatment with a baby-delivery robot at an obstetrician class of Kyung Hee university medical center in Seoul December 27, 2006.
The medical center imported the robot to give more chances of practical delivery treatment for students as South Korea’s birth rates are constantly falling, a professor of the class said.
A christchurch surgeon in a post-op rush has sparked a bloody bag at Queenstown Airport. Local medical minister of health Dr. Derek Bell intends referring the incident to the New Zeland Medical Council – he says it was reported to him “there was a blood stain on the bag that was increasing in sizeâ€.
Peter Walker, the surgeon who tried to check in his blood-stained laundry bag as hold luggage last Thursday afternoon, told Mountain Scene “diluted watery blood stained the bottom of the sackâ€.
Walker admits the baggage contained a plastic bag full of used surgery gowns, a blood-soaked towel and surgical instruments in steel trays. Walker denied that the instruments posed a danger, saying they were inside steel trays.
Walker said he always asks patients beforehand if they have infectious conditions like HIV infection or hepatitis. “I knew there was no infectious material at all” He said.
“I only had 10 minutes to spare to get to the airport and, as I was going to load the bag into the car, I said, ‘Oh, there’s a patch of blood-stained water’.â€
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A 47 years old woman had both hands amputated 28 years ago. Now she is the first patient in Spain to receive a transplant of both forearms and hands.
This operation was done in La Fe Hospital in Valencia, Spain by the team of hand surgery of the Pedro Cavadas’ Foundation.
This is the 7th similar surgical procedure in the world and the first performed in a woman.
The patient will recover part of her sensibility in a period between five and six months.
