A Doctor´s Appointment

Birth defects, planning is the key

By congenital defect is understood any alteration in morphology, say the structure or function, that may appear from birth and does not necessarily have to be diagnosed at the time of delivery.

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Currently there are many cases that we see of pregnant adolescents between 12 and 19 years old. Once this happens, no path we take will be correct, they will all be paved and full of risks ”, commented to Adelante Digital Daymi Saavedra Moredo, 2nd. Degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology, master's degree in Comprehensive Care for Women and assistant professor who attends the infant and adolescent provincial consultation.

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Endocrinology and fertility

The World Health Organization (WHO) establishes the classification and management of infertility. In the first group are women who do not ovulate and a significant number of them respond to endocrine disorders; in a second place organic alterations are collected in the fallopian tubes, the cervix, the uterus and the ovaries; in the third, those of immunological causes.

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Knowing about syphilis is the best prevention method

Although the subject of syphilis is not alien to us, it is appropriate to address it given the importance of unknown details, because when considering it as easy as we sometimes think, false visions and even myths are created around it.

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 I have always aroused a certain curiosity when I heard doctors refer to sudden death in babies. Now, with Dr. Arianna Sugrañes Montalván, 1st. degree in Intensive and Emergency Therapy, pediatric profile, Master in infectious diseases and Instructor Professor, from the Eduardo Agramonte Piña provincial pediatric hospital, in this city, I just learned that it is also known as death in the cradle.

When we hear about diseases of the central nervous system, we usually think of the brain or psychiatric ailments; however, these include muscles, peripheral nerves, conditions of the spinal cord, and sense organs: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch.

For various reasons, including the health situation the world is experiencing, from which Cuba does not escape, publications in this section ceased. Today we resume it precisely with the issue of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19, because despite the fact that much has been written and said about this pandemic declared as such by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th of the current year, due to the "youth" of the disease, all we know is little to avoid suffering from it.

Urban tribes in consultation?

The term tribe is very ancient and in some young people who integrate them it is characterized by prioritizing the sexuality, the music, the fashion, and they walk in group to look for their identity, with a behavior in contrast with the established in the culture that a majority qualifies as normal, therefore, it is known as subculture.

Habitual Scabies, although not the only one

The scabies is a contagious illness caused by the infestation of the skin, by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei, hominis variety that can appear in any stage of the life, in diverse social layers, although it is more frequent where it predominates over the overcrowding, and when the hygienic practices are scarce.