Health

Faced with the alarming "socio-environmental situation that exists in the areas of pineapple cultivation", more than a hundred artists signed a document that they sent to the President of the Republic, Carlos Alvarado Quesada.The document calls attention to the...

Have you ever thought that the routine act of going to the WC is a privilege? In Latin America and the Caribbean, close to 240 million people do not have access to a decent restroom, especially in rural and...

Ian Santiago is a child with autism. He plays piano and dreams of becoming a journalist. Since he was 4 years old, he learned to read and write. Indeed, this little kid is gifted with talent.His heart is noble...

Mythomania is a behavioral disorder. The person who suffers from it is addicted to lying. The psychologist Juan Moisés de la Serna, who has treated several people with this problem, believes that "the mythomaniac seeks with his/her deceptions the...

Kidneys are two powerful bean-shaped organs that perform various important functions in the body.  Kidney helps in releasing hormones that regulate blood pressure, filtering waste products, producing urine, balancing fluids in the body and many other important tasks.There are...

An initiative proposes to legalize the essential oils of the marijuana plant for medicinal purposes in Costa Rica. This is the draft Law on Cannabis and Cannabis Production for Medical Purposes, presented last Monday by the National Integration Party...

The results of the Costa Rican Institute of Research and Education in Nutrition and Health (Inciensa) confirmed on Thursday that 2 minors, between 3 and 9 years, are the new cases of measles imported into the country.The suspicions were...

The Municipal Council of Bagaces approved an agreement to change the work schedule of those responsible for garbage collection and maintenance of public spaces, which are exposed daily to solar radiation. The decision seeks to contribute to the prevention...

Oxygen is fundamental for the health of people, its intake is only by breathing, but it has essential and important participation for all metabolic reactions, involving the obtention of energy through the oxidation of nutrients, more so, when the...

It should be noted that proteins are fundamental for our health, giving value to their important plastic function since they constitute 80% of the dehydrated protoplasm in the whole cell. Also, thanks to their functions such as bioregulation, they...