Pregnant Women Shouldn't Travel To Countries With Zika Virus, CDC Says
People traveling to Central America and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean, should take special precautions against mosquito bites because of an outbreak of Zika virus, a previously rare disease that may be linked to serious birth defects. Pregnant women should consider avoiding the region, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised. The CDC on Friday issued a "Level 2" travel notice for Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico, as well as the Caribbean islands Haiti and Martinique....
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mosquito Virus May Have Caused Brain Damage In Thousands Of Babies
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In the early weeks of Angelica Pereira's pregnancy, a mosquito bite began bothering her. At first it seemed a small thing. But the next day she awoke with a rash, a headache, a fever and a burning in her eyes. The symptoms disappeared within four days, but she fears the virus has left lasting consequences. Pereira's daughter Luiza was born in October with a head more than an inch (3 centimeters) below the range defined as healthy by doctors, a rare condition known as microcephaly that often results in mental retardation. A neurologist soon gave Pereira and her husband more bad news: The brain da...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 28, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
What You Need To Know About The Zika Virus
By: Mindy Weisberger Published: 12/16/2015 10:51 AM EST on LiveScience Infections with Zika virus, which is carried by mosquitos, are on the rise across the Americas, raising concerns among health officials. Although the virus is generally not life-threatening, evidence suggests that it may be responsible for recent increases in birth defects in Brazil and French Polynesia, where infections are more common. On Thursday (Dec. 10), officials in Panama announced the country's first case of locally acquired Zika virus — meaning that a person caught the disease from a mosquito in that country, rather than while trav...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 16, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Zika virus infection – Paraguay
On 27 November 2015, the National IHR Focal Point of Paraguay notified PAHO/WHO of 6 laboratory-confirmed autochthonous cases of Zika virus infection in the city of Pedro Caballero, which is located in the northeast of the country and shares borders with Brazil. The diagnoses were made by the national reference laboratory, the Central Public Health Laboratory of the Ministry of Health, through reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique. Cases were identified from clusters of febrile patients whose samples tested negative for dengue and chikungunya. They presented with fever, headache, myalgia, art...
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - December 3, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: dengue [subject], dengue haemhorragic fever, dengue fever, dengue virus, headache [subject], headache, migraine, chronic headache, health services [subject], Disease outbreak news [doctype], Paraguay [country], Region of the Americas [region] Source Type: news
The medical devices market in Latin America
By Kate Jablonski, Emergo Group
Most people don’t realize it, but taken together, the major Latin American countries—Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina—represent the third largest economy in the world, with a healthcare expenditure comparable to China and India. Their combined GDP exceeds $4.25 trillion and the medical device industry has grown into a significant combined market. It’s no surprise that medical device companies have their eye on Latin America.
Starting points: Mexico & Brazil
Mexico is the second largest country south of the US and a favorable starting point for medical device compani...
Source: Mass Device - November 18, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Blog Emergo Group Source Type: news
Reduction in Amazon deforestation avoids 1,700 deaths per year
(Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Because of decreasing deforestation and emissions from forest fires in the Amazon, the amount of particulate matter, ozone, carbon monoxide and other atmospheric pollutants released by burning biomass has fallen by 30 percent on average in dry season in Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina. This improvement in the region's air quality may be helping to prevent the premature deaths of some 1,700 adults per year throughout South America, according studies made in Brazil, UK and USA. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 26, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Paraguay: We're protecting life of pregnant 10-year-old, fetus
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Source: CNN.com - Health - June 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
From Mexico to Boston to fix Regina’s heart
Families throughout Mexico travel to the country’s capital for its world-class museums, ancient Aztec ruins, noted restaurants and hospitals. So for Elizabeth and Eduardo Torreblanca, flying 1,000 miles from their home in Cancun to deliver their firstborn in Mexico City was not unusual.
But when their baby was born with an unusual condition, the Torreblancas would have to travel much further to give her a chance at life.
Two days after Regina was born on November 20, 2010, an echocardiogram or “echo” revealed that she had hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a serious and complex congenital heart defect that resu...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - May 7, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Jenny Fernandez Tags: All posts Heart conditions Our patients’ stories congenital heart defect Frank Pigula Gerald Marx Heart Center HLHS Source Type: news
Pregnant 10-year-old rape victim denied abortion in Paraguay
BOGOTA(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Paraguay's decision to deny a pregnant 10-year-old girl an abortion after she was allegedly raped by her stepfather has sparked a national debate over the country's strict abortion law. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Rep. Gary Palmer Tries To Stir Up Climate Change Controversy That Just Doesn't Exist
The following post first appeared on FactCheck.org.
Rep. Gary Palmer falsely claimed on a radio show that temperature data used to measure global climate change have been “falsified” and manipulated.
Palmer, a Republican from Alabama, cited the so-called Climategate episode of five years ago, in which emails written by climate scientists purportedly showed evidence of data manipulation, and a more recent accusation of climate scientists tampering with data from temperature monitoring stations. The Climategate scandal has been subject to several separate investigations, all of which exonerated all scientists involved f...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 12, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Child protection network and the intersector implementation of the circle of security as alternatives to medication - Becker AL, de Souza PH, de Oliveira MM, Paraguay NL.
OBJECTIVES: To describe the clinical history of a child with aggressive behavior and recurring death-theme speech, and report the experience of the team of authors, who proposed an alternative to medication through the establishment of a protection network... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 11, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Sharing the Joys and Responsibilities of Fatherhood
Partible paternity refers to shared fatherhood, and is found among many South American Amerindian societies. A new study explores adaptive aspects of partible paternity among Ache women and men in Paraguay. Shared fatherhood can serve as a form of social insurance against risk. The findings illustrate the rich social context to partnering and paternal care.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter B. Gray, Ph.D. Tags: Evolutionary Psychology Parenting Sex Social Life ache amazonia cross-cultural fatherhood. paternity life history partible paternity paternity certainty Robert Walker Ryan Ellsworth Source Type: news
Has sugar lost its sweet spot? Paraguayan plant upends market
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The maker of America's top sugar brand Domino Sugar is launching its first no-calorie "natural" sweetener extracted from the stevia plant in Paraguay, the strongest sign yet that the upstart product is threatening to eat into raw-sugar demand. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 20, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Latin America on a Dangerous Precipice
A traffic jam in Jaciara, Brazil, caused by repairs to the BR-364 road. Credit: Mario Osava/IPSBy Diana CariboniMONTEVIDEO, Oct 2 2014 (IPS)“We could be the last Latin American and Caribbean generation living together with hunger.”The assertion, made by Raúl Benítez, a regional officer for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), shows one side of the coin: only 4.6 percent of the region’s population is undernourished, according to the latest figures.By 2030, however, most of the countries in the region will face a serious risk situation due to climate change.With almost 600 million inhabi...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 2, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Diana Cariboni Tags: Climate Change Development & Aid Economy & Trade Energy Environment Featured Food & Agriculture Headlines Health Labour Latin America & the Caribbean Natural Resources Population Poverty & MDGs Projects Regional Categories Source Type: news
Comprehensive Sex Education: A Pending Task in Latin America
By Fabiana FrayssinetBUENOS AIRES, Sep 25 2014 (IPS)In most Latin American countries schools now provide sex education, but with a focus that is generally restricted to the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases – an approach that has not brought about significant modifications in the behaviour of adolescents, especially among the poor.The international community made the commitment to offer comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) during the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo.“Although some advances have been made in the inclusion of sexual and reproductive education in school cur...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Fabiana Frayssinet Tags: Active Citizens Civil Society Democracy Development & Aid Editors' Choice Education Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Latin America & the Caribbean Population Poverty & MDGs Projects Regional Categories Women's Source Type: news
