04
May
The weight of a calorie.
Farewell to counting calories!Right after surgery, most patients can have between 400 to 1,000 calories. At 3 months, it usually is between 800 to 1,000 calories. At one year, calorie intake is somewhere between 1,000 and 1,600. Daily calorie intake depends on restriction from th...
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May
Value Based Care Using Ultrasound.
2017 presents an opportunity for healthcare providers to evaluate how technologies like ultrasound can solve their challenges. By expanding their use of ultrasound, we believe providers can attract more patients, increase their patients' level of satisfaction, and reduce co...
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May
Clinical benefits and exercise prescription in primary cardiovascular prevention
Worldwide the leading causes of morbidity and mortality are diseases whose common denominator the atherosclerotic process, some of which represent the known cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes mellitus or hypertension, and others are as a result of these ischemic heart d...
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May
Possible Role of High-Dose Vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Halting Type 1 Diabetes Progression
There is a great need to identify “safe” and effective therapies that may prevent and positively impact the progression of autoimmune disorders, like Type 1 diabetes (T1D). Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D are both safe therapies with known anti-inflammatory effects...
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May
A ‘Mini-Organ’ Delivering Real Insulin in Real Time – BioHub
The DRI BioHub is a bioengineered “mini organ” that mimics the native pancreas. It contains real insulin-producing cells that can sense blood sugar and release the precise amount of insulin needed — in real time.To the millions living with diabetes, the DRI BioH...
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May
Music in Medicine and Medicine in Music
Sounds are the common language for anyone who has an auditory system that conducts sound waves to another transducer system so that, in the next relay, they acquire a meaning. In fact, in the brain there are areas that process various components of music, such as tone, vibration...
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May
Feeling drained while losing weight?
If you feel exhausted while trying to establish a healthier diet and lifestyle, it is important to understand what your body is going through and know what to expect to help yourself and stay on track. During weight loss, there are several mechanisms that affect your metabolism m...
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May
Calabadions: New Broad Spectrum Agent to Reverse Neuromuscular Blockade.
Anesthesia The introduction of neuromuscular blockers (NMBs) revolutionized the practice anesthesia. It allowed adjusting the degree of muscle relaxation independently of hypnosis or analgesia favoring orotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation; avoided th...
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May
What is obesity? Are you a candidate for weight loss surgery?
About a third of Americans are obese and another third are overweight. In Canada, 1 in 4 Canadians were obese in 2011-2012, or about 6.3 million people; the proportion has grown 17.5% since 2003. Mexico's obesity prevalence is not that distant to these countries with 32.4%...
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May
Space Medicine & Telemedicine
It is the vocation of the doctor to study, analyze and reflect on the health problems that afflict our population, as well as to deepen in the emerging areas of medicine and that it seems necessary to penetrate more decisively in their field of knowledge.Such it the case of space...
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