Featured Columnist – Health Ileana Alfaro Certified Dermatologist With thousands of new cases diagnosed annually and increasing numbers daily, skin cancer is the most common cancer in the world, even above breast and prostate cancer. Melanoma is not the only risk of UV light overexposure. Also linked to UV exposure are basal and squamous cell [...]
By TCRN Staff On April 26th, 2010, 450 health service providers from 15 Latin American countries gathered at the Ramada Herradura Hotel Convention Center to participate in the first Latin American Global Medicine and Wellness Congress held in San José, Costa Rica. The event, which was declared of public interest by the Costa Rican government, [...]
by PATRICIA LEITON The price of staple foods rose again after the historic collapse that occurred last January. In April 2010 the cost of the basic basket, which is a set of 45 basic foodstuffs, amounted to ¢32,081.99, an increase of 3% compared to April 2009, according to monthly data published by the National Statistical [...]
by IRENE RODRIGUEZ S. The lack of sex education, unemployment, limited access to higher education and the difficulties in achieving home ownership are the main problems facing the Costa Rican youth. This is according to a study from the National University and the Council of Young Persons that was released this morning. “We interviewed 800 [...]
by IRENE RODRIGUEZ S. Adelia Reyes walks for two hours three times a week with a bag full of clothes to wash for her and her six children. This indigenous Cabecar community near Gavilán Canta, Talamanca, Limón, must also cope with constant illness including diarrhea, vomiting, fever and parasites. “It is a lot of work [...]
Featured Columnist – Health Ileana Alfaro Certified Dermatologist Overweight is defined as a body-mass index (BMI, the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) at the 85th to less than the 95th percentile for age. Obesity is defined as a BMI at or above the 95th percentile. Childhood overweight and [...]
by ROGER AMORETTY More than 500 residents of the remote community of Piedra Mesa de Talamanca received free medical care this week by professionals of the U.S. Southern Command and Costa Rican specialists. Doctors, pharmacists, dentists and ophthalmologists were on location as part of the humanitarian mission. The experts were accompanied by a support team [...]
Democrats said they had the 216 votes needed for final passage after the White House won the support of a handful of anti-abortion holdouts with a promise Obama would issue an order reaffirming a ban on using federal funds for abortion. The overhaul, Obama’s top domestic priority, later cleared its first procedural hurdle when the [...]
by TCRN Staff The cases of allergic rhinitis and asthma is rising among Costa Rican children. Doctors at the National Children’s Hospital indicate that in addition, are increasingly more severe cases of these diseases. For example, in 2005 to 2.1% of admissions were for asthma attacks in children, and by 2009, 3.2% of hospitalizations were [...]
With President Barack Obama’s sweeping healthcare overhaul headed for a final House vote this week, House Democratic Whip James Clyburn said Democrats were short for now of the 216 votes needed but he was confident they could find them. “We don’t have them as of this morning, but we’ve been working this thing all weekend, [...]
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