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Discurso de Steve jobs en Stanford (subtitulado)

Anuncio Coca-Cola - La niña se ha enamorado

La alimentación influye en el estado de ánimo de mi bebé

Tomar Café podría acortar riesgo de una apoplejía en las mujeres

Televisión, computadoras y celular no dejan dormir

El ejercicio diario disminuye en 30% el riesgo de cáncer de colon

Al menos 30 minutos diarios de ejercicio moderado disminuyen en 30% el riesgo de sufrir cáncer de colon.

Eso concluyó una investigación de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Washington que analizó 20 estudios anteriores sobre el vínculo de actividad física y la enfermedad.

El ejercicio logra ese efecto al disminuir el tamaño de los precursores del cáncer: los pólipos. Se trata de pequeños tumores benignos de herencia genética que se desarrollan en el colon y que con el tiempo pasan a ser malignos y se alojan en el tubo digestivo.

El cáncer de colon apareció en el mundo en el siglo pasado, y con especial énfasis a partir de la década de los años sesenta en los países desarrollados.

La enfermedad se asocia con fumar la alimentación menos sana, la comida chatarra y los alimentos escasos en fibra, por lo que, además del ejercicio se recomienda abandonar el tabaco y mejorar la dieta.

Fuente: Primera Hora

04/03/2011

Sección: Ciencia y Salud / Página: 6

Bipolaridad afecta vida familiar

Alteraciones extremas de humor, incapacidad por sentir placer y poca necesidad de sueño son solo algunos de los síntomas que caracteriza al trastorno bipolar y la de depresión bipolar se presenta en uno de los tipos de este trastorno.

Específicamente el Trastorno Bipolar II se caracteriza por la aparición de uno o más episodios depresivos mayores acompañados de -por lo menos- un episodio hipomaníaco, el cual se conoce como depresión bipolar.

La psiquiatra Carol Montes explica que para que una depresión sea considerada bipolar es necesario que aparezcan ciertos síntomas como tristeza, aledonia (ausencia de placer), pesimismo, alteraciones del apetito y que estos síntomas deben estar acompañados por un episodio de exacerbación del estado de ánimo que dure alrededor de dos semanas e incluso, puede mantenerse alrededor de tres meses y alterar de manera significativa la vida familiar.

"Se sospecha de depresión bipolar cuando la depresión se manifiesta al inicio de la adolescencia o mujeres que hayan sufrido depresión postparto", dice Montes.

Señala que la diferencia entre una depresión bipolar y la depresión mayor (nombre clínico de la depresión común) es que esta última no está acompañada de episodios de manía.

Explica que para tratar a la depresión bipolar es necesario los estabilizadores de humor y terapia médica.

"La terapia combinada es lo mejor para estos pacientes. Se debe buscar apoyo psicoterapéutico, tomar los medicamentos y se tiene que trabajar con la familia porque es la que puede llevar al paciente al médico cuando presenta una etapa de manía", comentó Montes.

Destaca que uno de los problemas al identificar este tipo de depresión es que en el 80% de los casos los pacientes son subdiagnosticados y es muy posible que no reciban el tratamiento adecuado, que no reciban la medicina correcta o que no la tomen por el tiempo que deberían.

La doctora explica que existe un componente genético en las personas que padecen de trastorno bipolar, pero que son los factores ambientales los que contribuyen a que se manifieste el trastorno y recomienda a los familiares a buscar ayuda cuando esto suceda.

"Muchas veces los familiares no entienden lo que está pasando y llamar al psiquiatra es una buena opción para obtener ayuda. Asimismo deben abstenerse de criticar al paciente ya que eleva el estado de manía", apuntó Montes.

En el país no existen datos exactos de cuántas personas padecen esta enfermedad, pero se estima que un 3,7% de la población mundial sufre de esta condición.

Fuente: El Universal

10/03/2011

Sección: Vida / Página: 3-3

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Baby Kangaroo Documentary Has Colleague Hopping

11 Mar 2011

 

Milla (l.), a Matschie’s tree kangaroo, kisses her
baby, Kuna (r.) in their quarters at the Lincoln
Children’s Zoo in Lincoln, Neb.

By Rick Chambers
PfizerWorld

Pfizer’s latest encounter with a rare and endangered species will lead to an unprecedented video documentary of a newborn kangaroo’s first months of life.Correspondent Network

The baby Matschie’s tree kangaroo, or joey, was born to mother Milla at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Lincoln, Neb., last September. This kangaroo species is native to Papua New Guinea. At birth, joeys continue developing in a protective pouch on the mother’s abdomen, a process that takes about 10 months.           
To monitor the joey’s progress, the zoo borrowed a specialized video camera from Pfizer’s Global Supply facility in Lincoln. The tiny camera, called a boroscope, is about as wide as a pencil and is used to check welds inside pipes. Zoo staff is using the boroscope to document the joey’s development.           

“We are filming almost daily,” said John Chapo, president and chief executive officer of the Lincoln Children’s Zoo. “This will be, and in fact already is, the most comprehensive filming and documentation of the development of a Matschie’s tree kangaroo ever done.”            

If this story seems familiar, it’s because Pfizer has helped the zoo monitor the development of joeys before. In 2009, Milla gave birth to twins — the first documented case for the species. The Pfizer boroscope helped the zoo keep a close watch on the newborn kangaroos, named Kuna and Yopno, until they emerged from their mother’s pouch. To read a previous PfizerWorld story about the twins, click here. 

           

A newborn baby kangaroo, called a joey, shortly after
birth in its mother’s pouch at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.

Yopno is now enjoying life at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Wash. Sadly, Kuna died in September 2009 after suffering a head injury from a fall.
As he did two years ago, Pfizer colleague Tom Rathe, a Maintenance Technician at the Lincoln site, arranged to loan the boroscope to the zoo again. It’s a task that has personal meaning for him.           
“I always enjoy offering support to the zoo,” Rathe said. “I live near the zoo and took my kids there often when they were younger. My grandmother lived near the zoo as well, and as a kid growing up, that was a big part of staying at grandma’s — a trip to the zoo.”           
This time, using the Pfizer camera, the Lincoln Children’s Zoo will create a much more detailed video record of the joey’s development. Chapo said the zoo is looking to host an international workshop for tree kangaroo professionals later this year, at which the video will be a valuable learning tool to aid kangaroo care at other facilities. 

Hand in Hand for a Smoke-free Childhood in China

10 Mar 2011     There are many reasons people struggle to quit smoking, one of the key reasons in China is social pressure. It is unknown how many Chinese adults started smoking because they could not turn down the repeated offer of cigarettes from friends or strangers, it is also unknown to what extent the low desire to quit smoking is the result of the need to remain a regular or ‘social’ smoker.   According to Report on Chronic Disease in China, a document released by the Ministry of Health in 2006, there were 350 million smokers and 540 million passive smokers in China, 50 million of them were teenagers with a rising trend of teenagers below 10 years old becoming smokers. To address the issue of increasing child smokers in China and to promote a smoke-free childhood, Pfizer China collaborated with the Beijing Bureau of Health to conduct a “Stay healthy by not smoking –tobacco control in school by using speaking book” program on February 21, 2011. The book, Stay Healthy by Not Smoking, has a soundtrack that corresponds to the text and illustrations, and describes the health benefits of not smoking from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy, Xiao Ming.  The story encourages children to stay healthy by not smoking, and to play an active role in protecting themselves from second-hand smoke by creating a smoke-free environment in their schools and families.  The smoke-free childhood program reached around 8,000 students from 15 primary schools in Beijing, and also the family members of the students. The program comprehensively trained teachers at the schools in addition to reaching out to students.  The trained teachers will later conduct health education activities with students by using the “speaking book,” which was developed by Pfizer in close collaboration with the World Medical Association, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, and the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. After school, the students will bring the speaking book home to read with their family members. Through bonding with their parents, the program aims to influence the adult smoking population as well. Pfizer China started the Smoke-free Childhood program in 2010 and the program proved successful in raising disease awareness with 81.3% of parents responding they would try to build a smoke-free environment for their children at home, and 65.8% of the students showing commitment to encourage their parents to seek professional support if needed.