Half a dollar can improve a child's intelligence

Half a dollar can improve a child's intelligence

The early brain development of a child will enrich his adult life, but only 15 countries have the basic policies needed to achieve this. 85 million do not receive needed care.

Child's intelligence

Half dollar per head. That is, less than 50 euro cents or less than it costs a loaf of bread. That amount can make the difference between a person doing better or worse when he or she is an adult. It all has to do with the cognitive stimulation that he receives since

childhood, with the development of his brain in its first thousand days of life. If you invest time and resources in that baby, the greater will have better prospects of life. But if in those early years you are not stimulated enough, your future will be conditioned.

Unicef presented this Thursday in the framework of the UN General Assembly, in New York, Early childhood matters for every child. It is a report made with the support of the H & M Foundation that reveals that some 85 million children under five years of

World Health Day

World Health Day dedicated to depression

According to the WHO, it occupies the first place of days lost in quality of life, productivity, and premature death; That is why since last October 10, launched a campaign with the slogan "Let's talk about depression."

Dedicated to depression

 In the framework of World Health Day, this year dedicated by the World Health Organization(WHO) to depression, Voice Pro Mental Health Mexico City collects important data about this disease and its implications.

According to the WHO, depression is the first place of days lost in quality of life, productivity, and premature death.

Talking about depression is not just "being sad"; It is a real illness that can become disabling or end life. According to the National Survey of Psychiatric Epidemiology (ENEP) 2003-2014, it presents an average age of 24 years, and is present in just over

Colombia passes

Colombia passes 'scraping' its evaluation in the health index

For the second time, the health index in Colombia was presented, which was 64 out of 100. This year, the focus was on traffic accidents and mental health problems.

 In the health index, Colombia passes 

'scraping' its evaluation

On Thursday, the health index was announced, an initiative of the Vamos Vamos en Salud observatory to evaluate the system at the national level. This year, the total figure rose by 62 points to 64. "We spent scraping the year, but there is no room for complacency," Minister Alejandro Gaviria said in a video message posted during the event. Global changes are notorious, although they represent a two-point improvement. "This is expected; there are no dramatic changes, but when you zoom in on each axis - health, institutionality, perception, and financing - there are important issues, "said Augusto Galán Sarmiento, director of the observatory.

For example, the health situation axis, which describes how Colombians feel about this issue, declined compared to the previous year in only one point, from 79 to 78. But the reason for the decline is very relevant. As Galán explains, this point has to do with the estimated mortality rate for traffic accidents per 100,000 inhabitants, which, although maintaining the same gross

Cancer tissue is quickly detected by new invention 

Cancer tissue is

The University of Texas at Austin has designed a tool that can quickly and accurately detect cancerous tissue.

Within 10 seconds, the device, which looks like a pen, can diagnose. For example, surgeons know what tissue they need to remove and what should be retained. That is what De Volkskrant writes on Thursday, based on the scientific journal Science Translational Medicine Wednesday.

Research sign posts also open to young people

Signposts also

Children who suffer from Lyme disease after a bite of a tick can now also participate in a national investigation. They can log in via the Tekenradar.nl site or their GP. Participants are followed for a year. With them, blood is being taken and they have to fill out questionnaires about the disease, treatment, and complaints, as reported by the RIVM knowledge and research organization on Friday.

Connected but shaped

Exercises in dialysis is an idea to create an 'app' that helps patients in treatment to end the sedentary lifestyle

Patients on hemodialysis usually have low levels in their physical condition and are highly

sedentary. This is explained by Miquel Gómez, who has created, along with Anna Yuguero, 39-year-old Barbarian and fellow physiotherapist at the Center for Dialysis and Applied Research of the Clinic of Barcelona, a proposal to develop an application for mobile and tablets where each patient can to follow a

Gold could help cancer treatments

Gold could help cancer treatments

Gold nanoparticles could increase the effectiveness of cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy, by acting from the inside of tumors and thus making drugs more effective.

A study published in the journal  Angewandte Chemie demonstrated  the ability of gold nanoparticles to generate in situ potent anticancer drugs from inert molecules. Gold would act as a catalyst for the chemical reactions of drugs used in chemotherapy, that is, that would accelerate the chemical processes of drugs in the tumor, preventing these effects from reaching the healthy cells of the body. The gold is ideal to fulfill this accelerating function due to its high biocompatibility."The main problem of chemotherapy treatments are the side effects in various organs due to the toxicity of the molecules that are used to fight cancer. For this reason, alternative routes are

The device that identifies, in seconds, cancerous tissue during surgery

It has a pen shape and is disposable. The so-called MasSpec Pen has been developed by a team from the University of Texas and will begin testing on cancer surgeries in 2018.

The device extracts the molecules from the tissues using small volumes of water, which then transfers the samples through flexible tubes to a mass spectrometer. / Vivian Abagiu / UT AustinA group of scientists and engineers at the University of Texas (UT) in Austin (USA) has invented a small portable device that identifies cancerous tissue during surgery in about 10 seconds. The results of the work have been published in the latest issue of the journal  Science Translational Medicine.The so-called MasSpec Pen is shaped like a pen and provides surgeons with accurate information 

 about which tissue to remove or conserve. The authors point out that the system could allow rapid diagnosis of cancer and help eliminate all traces of malignant masses during operations.

Patient want more treatment

PATIENT WANT MORE TREATMENT

UTRECHT - Patients want more speech about their treatment. According to the Patient Federation of the Netherlands, people would like to decide with the doctor in the consulting room, but there is not much in practice yet.

Cycling can be profitable

Cycling can be profitable

Researchers at the University of Seville decided to calculate how profitable in socio-economic terms is the construction of cyclorruts.

His work, published in the journal Land Use Policy, is one of the first long-term economic assessments that are made on the adoption of these policies by a Spanish city.

On the one hand, according to the Sinc Agency, they considered both the construction and maintenance costs of cycling infrastructures and those derived from possible increased road accidents due to accidents between cyclists with pedestrians and motorists.