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A 24-year-old woman who died Tuesday at the UC Davis Medical Center after being hospitalized with the H1N1 virus is believed to be the first person in Sacramento County to die from what is more commonly known as swine flu.

She is the ninth person in California to die from the virus, according to the latest data available from the California Department of Public Health.

The woman  had lost job . She did not have  Health coverage at all . so  she did not go to doctor which resulted  fever of  104 and caused death ..

We do have billions of dollars to spend on wars , Billions of dollars to pay CEO salaries .. and donot have 100 dollars to save  a life ?Thanks America  .

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When we talk about anorexia, comes to our mind the image of a skinny woman so obsessive concern opinion in a skeleton. Only that men also suffer from it. The most curious is that it usually happens with those who were once fat in childhood (that is there is the explanation for the Bolinha have emaciate?).

Study of the Hospital das Clinicas of Sao Paulo shows that men between 14 and 18 who are obese have a greater tendency to become anorexic adults. This result was observed by the Food Disorders Clinic of the institution.

Half of the men seen at Hospital das Clinicas of anorexia had problems with obesity in childhood, which is the most common factor for the emergence of eating disorders in adulthood. Moreover, although the symptoms of anorexia are equal to women, men have more difficulty in accepting the disease and therefore take longer to get help.

Today, 43% of the population are above the weight and obesity rate is between 15% to 20%. Based on these data, the Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome (ABES) developed the National Campaign to Combat Obesity, aiming to build awareness about the risks of disease and promote a healthier lifestyle.
“We’re doing a guide, first, to prevention, especially with youngsters. Children with overweight or obesity have great chances of becoming obese adults. We encourage parents to provide healthy food to these children and encourage physical activity “explained the doctor endocrinologist Maria Isabel Carneiro Travi.
The doctor explained that, currently, children have preference for sedentary leisure, such as watching television or playing on the computer. “We recommend not more than two hours per day and are done playing and running, playing mouth and skip rope,” he said.
Another important factor is the treatment of the campaign. According to Maria Isabel, it is important that those who are obese, are evaluated by professionals who have the ability to do so, as nutritionists, endocrinologists and even possibly make the use of medicines. “Unfortunately in public demand is very large and lacks specialists. The ideal is that the clinicians were trained for this service, which is essential for those who are overweight,” said the doctor.

Portugal is the second European country with more cases of childhood obesity at an average of 31.5 percent, and surpassed only by Italy. The data were confirmed by the responsible for consultations with obesity and endocrine diseases of the Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Distrital de Santarém, Margarida Marujo during the panel on childhood obesity Integrated Health Days in the municipality of Santarém held at Casa do Brasil in Santarém.

Also participated in the debate, moderated by the Deputy of the Board of the Hospital de Santarém, Pedro Rodrigues Marques, the couple Leonor and João Coimbra, members of the Portuguese Association of large families. All agreed that the family is primarily responsible for bad eating habits and resultant increase in weight in children.

The responsibility for consultation of obesity, this is considered a chronic disease in developed countries and an epidemic of the XXI century. Margarida Marujo explained that obesity in children will lead to that they become obese adults. Between 80 to 90 percent of obese adolescents - who are the age group that most easily give the consultations of endocrinology - will become obese adults.

Concern about childhood obesity began relatively recently. The doctors believe that parents should start to concern itself with the physical health of the child from the three years. “Success is greater the lower the age of the obese children,” says Margaret Marujo. Obesity in children causes type 2 diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, depression and attempted suicide.

Leonor and João Coimbra for all the effort is that families are to provide a daily healthy nutrition to children. “After a hard day of work does not always want to make soup or cook meat or fish. It is easier to take children to restaurants to fast food. The children, from being born, should have routines, habits have to everything. Mainly to eat, “explains João Coimbra.

Parents of five boys aged between 8 and 17 years, John and Leonor, know that it is not easy to raise five children, each with a different shape. But never adopted rules to neglect. “We make meals always the same hours and always together. During meals there is no TV connected. Are the only moments that we as a family and the opportunity to know how the day went to each, “says João Coimbra adding that everyone has to eat when all the dishes that are placed on the table.

Doctors warn that it is no longer the urgency to prevent this epidemic can have catastrophic consequences in those who will be the next adult. “The best prevention is always the attitude, the sooner the better. Only then will educate the children healthy food that should have, “Margarida Marujo concludes.

HPP, presentation in Estoi
Helping to combat morbid obesity in the Algarve and have a new answer for patients with osteoporosis who develop problems in the spine is the most recent bet of the health units of the Group of Private Hospitals Portugal (HPP) in the Algarve.

The administrator of the Group in the Algarve Paulo Neves, this is “a differentiation of the offer ‘in health and a bet on the expertise of the teams working in hospitals of PPH in the region” in areas that the Algarve was poor.

The most recent investments of the Group in the Algarve were presented last week at a meeting “exclusively oriented doctors.

The aim was to disclose the new offer of Hospital de Santa Maria in Faro, and São Gonçalo, in Lagos, to make known that there are now able to perform certain operations in the region, something that did not before.

This is the case of new surgical procedures to combat morbid obesity. The units of HPP Algarve guaranteed ‘in isolation’ a team of experts who have dealt with “more than 1200 patients at a national level.

In the Algarve, are referenced ‘about four hundred people with body mass index higher than desirable.

In the treatment of complications associated with osteoporosis, Paulo Neves showed that the hospitals of PPH are now able to do a surgery, the cifoplastia ‘, a technique that allows “the recovery of bone mass and fractures in the correct column, and in women men who suffer this debilitating disease of bone.

These interventions will be carried out by a neurosurgeon and his team, who will have access to “all the appropriate equipment.

It is that, in addition to an investment in the human component, the HPP also invested in the purchase of materials’ quality, much of which essential to the implementation of these surgeries.

Not only were the new specialties that received new equipment, but also some of the existing and with which they are linked.

The increase was made at the level of equipment and personnel in the field of radiology, but also the specialty of cardiology. “From now on, we have a cardiologist service every day of the week, showed Paulo Neves.

“Basically, this is to decentralize the health care quality, the administrator believes the HPP in the Algarve. “This is a response that gives value to the region, he added.

Paulo Neves said even be aware that there are different investments in health infrastructure, including public sector, to be made or programmed for the region.

“But we are leaders because we have the best doctors. Invest in new techniques so that they may have more capacity to respond, with the added value it brings to people, ’said.

The administrator of the HPP has shown that it will be soon announced the launch of a new procedure “in an area of high demand, but did not advance further details at the moment.

First were the scientists at the University of Montreal who published a study stating that children who lie less than 11 hours per night just gaining some pounds. Now is the time of scholars from universities of Dortmund (Germany) and Witten-Herdecke (England) make a further search and get the freak results mirabolantes: Drinking water can help prevent overweight and obesity in children. In other words, the increase of water consumption in schools has decreased the risk that the pimpolhos were overweight.

Summarizing the research. First they separated the children into 32 groups of elementary level school, located in poor areas of the two countries. The educational institutions were chosen because, due to a tortuous reasoning that makes sense only in the minds of geniuses who led the study, the risk of obesity was higher among students of these areas. Apparently, poor child = child fat, at least in Germany and England.

To promote the consumption of water among the 2950 students participating in the study, water fountains were installed in schools and the teachers gave lessons on the benefits of the drink for the body. The guris were encouraged to “reward” and “gifts” such as bottled water!

According to results published by researchers, although there was no reduction in consumption of soft drinks, the students of schools that received the intervention drank about a cup more of water daily. In one year, there was decrease of 31% in risk of overweight in this group, but there was no reduction in BMI (body mass index). Understand? Dropped the risk of obesity because overweight children not gaining weight? It seems so, since those who have not participated in the campaign had a slight increase in weight during the same period.

The doctors explain that to metabolize 1g of fat, are used 15 ml of water. Therefore, the largest amount of water helps the process of burning fat to function better and thus its elimination by the body would also be easier. Moreover, eating water reduces fluid retention, which implies the reduction of weight. Drinking water also causes a feeling of satiety, which may inhibit the binge eating.

Europ Assistance has presented the new website Netglobers.com, a community portal focused on global health and travel risks. Via this site, tourists worldwide can learn about the best way to prepare your holidays: health issues, information on diseases prevalent in the destination … Everyone can leave their own online experiences.
The site broadcasts a continuous and updated information on risks to be encountered by tourists for a destination.

Several tabs allow to enter the destination country profile, travel tips and pre-departure medical advice.

As for community tool, it allows people to leave their line of travel books, and participate in discussion forums. These travel diaries can then be exported to the personal pages of users, like on Facebook.

“The portal responds to a need of the tourists who were not previously on the web portal combining official information and advice from travelers,” said at a press conference Martin Vial, CEO of Europ Assistance.

According to the Ipsos-Barometer Europ Assistance unveiled Tuesday, 47% of European travelers say they fear that their relatives said one health problem on vacation. 46% are also concerned about the risk of attack (survey of 3,500 Europeans representative of the European population in seven countries including France).

Alta Frequenza) - Coup de force yesterday (Wednesday) of the Union of Corsican Workers in the defense of public health in Corsica. The union has put on the bridge several of its sections to occupy or block access to many administrations. The union, once again, wishes to alert the public about the plight of all hospital tool of the island, not just hospitals of Ajaccio and Bastia. The union hopes to get today the opening of serious negotiations to avoid public health island a real disaster. A partly motivated by the arrival of summer and the extra work that must bear the health system. Tony Prunet, for STC Health.

Ls French health authorities are likely to reduce the device against the pandemic influenza A (H1N1) without resorting to more hospitalizations systematic. A meeting is scheduled for Thursday 18 June at the Ministry of Health with experts and managers of hospitals. The Directorate General of Health (DGS) has already given his agreement to stop the systematic hospital in Toulouse, where fourteen college students have been contaminated and closed institution.

The swine flu hits the Southern Cone of Latin America, with four deaths in Argentina and three in Chile, the eve of an austral winter with temperatures close to zero risk deepening the impact of the pandemic.

Chile, which declared a state of emergency throughout the country, with 3125 patients and Argentina, 871, according to figures from the Ministries of Health of these countries.

The Argentine government Wednesday released a total of 88.43 million pesos ($ 23.4 million, 17 million euros) to buy treatments against influenza A (H1N1).

The Deputy Minister of Health of Argentina, Carlos Soratte, said fears of further deaths in cases of respiratory infections or chronic diseases, which create a breeding ground for complications. ”

“The problem is that winter arrives with other viruses in circulation, coupled with influenza A,” said a doctor in Argentina Wednesday, a specialist in infectious diseases, Guillermo Benchetrit.

Between 1500 and 2000 people, mostly already weakened by other diseases, die each year in Argentina for seasonal influenza.

For Jorge Yabkowski, president of the Federation of Health Professionals in Argentina (FESPROSA), the impact of influenza virus A (H1N1) could be much more important in case of arrival in the country more of a variety aggressive.

“The virus of swine influenza behaves at this point as an ordinary flu virus with an aggressiveness and a relatively low mortality rate of 0.5% similar at the global level,” said Mr. Yabkowski.

In Chile, the pandemic has reached a peak in the coming days thanks to the near-zero temperatures and the prevailing pollution in Santiago, the capital, according to authorities.

“According to our projections, we will face an increase in cases over the next two weeks”, said Minister of Health of Chile, Alvaro Erazo.

The state of emergency, declared on Wednesday by the Chilean government, allows hospitals to hire additional teams to acquire and quickly, without tender, all the equipment deemed necessary to cope with the pandemic.

Any person claiming an antivirus Chile will also entitled for free. Experts estimate the real figure of people affected could reach 21,000 in the country.

In the same geographical area, Uruguay has registered 36 cases of influenza until June 11, when the count was interrupted in accordance with the rules of the World Health Organization (WHO).

The Uruguayan government has set up a system for monitoring the epidemiological situation, serious cases and outbreaks of infection, “according to the plan of action presented Wednesday by the authorities.

In Brazil there are 79 confirmed cases of flu and 96 suspected cases under investigation, according to the latest official balance sheet.

Bacteriological Institute Adolfo Luz de Sao Paulo has identified a new variety of flu fever, but this small change does not at this stage by a more aggressive behavior.

The impact in the south of Latin America remains very low when compared to Mexico, the epicenter of global influenza A (H1N1). The results of the swine flu Tuesday rose to 113 dead and 6970 sick.

Monday, WHO said the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century was estimated at 35,928 the number of patients in 76 countries and review of deaths to 163.