A Doctor´s Appointment

Rheumatic diseases are a set of conditions where the inflammatory joint or periarticular process predominates, and is accompanied by other manifestations. They have been known for a long time, even several authors say that Hippocrates and Galen, professionals of antiquity, admitted them in very specific cases.

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Cervical cancer: not only a matter of women

Cervical cancer is a very common condition in our media and is considered to occur in women of childbearing age, although the age group is decreasing. It was said by Dr. Gustavo Crespo Campo, 2nd Degree specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics, Assistant Professor of Histology, with a diploma in Oncology Gynecology and Higher Medical Education, and head of the teaching department, of the provincial hospital of Oncology María Curie, of this city.

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Do you suffer from epilepsy?

To Dr. Demetrio J. Carbonell Perdomo, 2nd specialist. Degree in Clinical Neurology, Assistant Professor of that specialty, of the Ana Betancourt maternal and child hospital in this city, I appreciate the time he dedicated to me, little as that of most of our doctors, who finish their consultations and without a break respond to a questionnaire, without previous presentation.

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Facing pediculosis, avoiding is the best

Pediculosis are parasitic dermatosis caused by the presence of parasites in the skin and adnexal structures, the latter include, among other parts, the hairs, and they feed on our body and use it for its life cycle, as those tiny insects feed on human blood.

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For a shade in the lungs: an appointment in Camaguey

In the University Hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech, in Camaguey, there is a weekly appointment known as Pulmonary Shade. It was created on November, 2015 because the lung cancer patients need the attention and treatment of specialist of several branches of medicine.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy consists of a change in the geometry of the left ventricle * of the heart that normally has an ellipsoid shape and when this organ is subjected to unusual stress, it can change that shape towards an ovoid and the segments of the middle towards the tip of the heart stop moving and only the segments of the base do.

Maternal and Child Care: When technology counts on time

If a Program is known and recognized by the population within the National Public Health System, it is undoubtedly that of Maternal and Child Care (PAMI). In order to maintain its results, it needs a whole gear so technology does not escape. For that reason I came to Dr. Amaralis Trull Martínez, Second Degree specialist in Imaging and Assistant Professor of the Provincial Center of Medical Genetics, assigned to the Ana Betancourt maternal and child hospital in this city, a whole authority within this branch of Medicine .

Several persons suggested me the topic that occupies us today. The thyroid gland is much mentioned and simultaneously unknown, something that happens when only one organ is in charge of several responsibilities, as well as the ways of being evident on not having worked with coherence or as it should.

Hand, foot and mouth disease, and children…

The weather has a decisive impact on the emergence of viruses, and Cuba, as part of the tropics, faces a complex epoch in which adults concern about the children of very particular way, especially facing the conditions such as the one, we are going to address to today, that it is also visible. That is why Dr. Yamina Rivero Fernández made an apart for us and explains about the syndrome hand, foot and mouth disease...