7 December, 2017

Edition N ° 7 magazine Heureka

Edition N ° 7: health

We invite you to witness investigations leading national scientists around non-communicable diseases develop more prevalent in our country

Learn more about interesting lines of research in this issue!

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Andrea Paula Lima
DEFENDING THE NEW MEMORIES

Alzheimer's disease is one of the great evils of the last two centuries. Since its first description in 1906 by Alois Alzheimer, this neurodegenerative pathology has been responsible for millions of deaths around the world. Under this scenario, our country has generated great impact investigations, which have contributed to that I now have more than one research centre specializing in this area.Continue reading →

Rodrigo Alzamora
The role of the kidney in hypertension

Let us pause to think about the times we have heard the testimony of people who take drugs regulators of hypertension such as losartan or enalapril. Surely these occasions are not few, and this situation is not surprising, given that according to the latest national health survey, revealed in 2017, 27.6% of the population suffer hypertension.Continue reading →

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Pablo Muñoz
CURING CANCER WITH GREATER EFFICIENCY AND FEWER SIDE EFFECTS

In the world of the health sciences there is a group of atypical doctors, who constantly travel between the clinic and the research. This is the case of Pablo Muñoz Schuffenegger, Oncologists who currently serves as a Clinical Fellow at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in the Department of radiation oncology at the University of Toronto, where he studied the impact of high radiation therapy Precision in the quality of life of cancer patients...Continue reading →

Catterina Ferreccio
THE HEALTH OF THE INHABITANTS OF CHILE:
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS

For this brief article, I analyze study "Index of quality and access to medical care based on mortality from causes likely to Individual care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015", Lancet 2017. They compared, between 1990 and 2015, failures in quality of health care according to avoidable mortality by 32 causes; where a value of 100 indicates that there is no excess mortality, depending on the level of social development (education, fertility and income) of each country.Continue reading →

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