Couver Health Journal

Archive for June, 2010

When we are living a change of station (as in this time), leaving to run can be transformed into a real challenge, either in your country you from winter to spring or summer to autumn, we are all suffering from the change of station.

These times are ideal for leave to run, especially when lives change toward spring in which the days are beginning to be warmer and lass braises help to spend a good time outdoors. The only disadvantage of this time of year is that, as well as your back to leave the house, all plants and trees begin to flourish and thus appear the annoying allergies.

Sneezing, coughs, colds and itchy eyes are some of the symptoms living by these days the allergic to the changes of the station, and many times we motivation to exit to run. That is why that this article we will see some tips to make the change of station is not an obstacle to the time to leave to run.

*Avoids running in the days has movies. The wind, obviously distributes the pollen by all of the air, therefore in those days the best be that run on the tape. Read the rest of this entry »

The meditation Zen a system east of rebalancing mental and physical, has been studied scientifically continuously during recent decades, reaching the conclusion, which can provide a mental balance, physical and emotional can reduce the pain.

A new study reports that the mediators have less sensitivity to pain, both inside and outside of a state of meditation in comparison to the not mediators.

Joshua A. Grant, a doctoral student in the Department of Physiology, co-author of the document with Pierre Rainville, professor and researcher at the University of Montreal and its affiliates University Institute of geriatrie in Montreal.

The study focused on examines meditators on different thresholds of pain, in relation to a control group not mediator. Read the rest of this entry »

If you and your partner have been trying to develop during a year or more and have not, it is better consulting your doctor. Depending on your age and history of health staff, your doctor may recommend a medical evaluation.

A gynecologist for women, an urologist for man or a family doctor can help determine if there is a problem that requires a specialist or a clinic of infertility. Both you and your partner will undergo a thorough review of infertility.

Here are some information to help you prepare for its first appointment, and what to expect from your doctor.

What can you do?

Write details on their attempts to become pregnant. Your doctor will need information such as when it started to try to devise and how often had had sexual relations, especially around half of their menstrual cycle. Read the rest of this entry »

Commonly loss or delay of menstrual period is the symptom more noticeable when a woman is pregnant. There tests that detect the hormone HCG that usually occurs in the urine of pregnant women, tend to be precise, generally, cheap and easy to carry out.

And to know if it is that a woman is or is not pregnant it is best recourse to a center gynecological where on the basis of tests will take a more reliable, but if you cannot resort to a resort center can also be used the evidence home pregnancy. These test are not 100 percent safe, everything depends on which the indications are still at the foot of the letter.

A test well done will be a real outcome and an almost zero error rate. First things first, i.e. buy the test, is best decided by a number of different brands to take several results because if they are all made properly and get different results possible mother will realize that definitely have to go to a resort center specializes, as it is known by the majority that exist false positive results and also the negative not true, the latter because the alleged expectant mother was conducted the test before the first 10 days after conception. Read the rest of this entry »

The results suggest that the chronic insomnia is a major public health problem, its diagnosis and treatment should be the objective of the public health policy.

A study of the magazine “dream” is the first to show that the chronic insomnia, with short periods of sleep is clinically significant as a risk factor for hypertension.

The results indicate that the study participants with insomnia and an objective measure of short duration in the dream, less than five hours, had an increase the risk of hypertension of 500 percent higher, in connection with the participants without insomnia or sleeping more than six hours. Read the rest of this entry »