Whooping cough deaths climb to 11
The number of child deaths due to whooping cough in the Ngäbe Buglé region has risen to 11 said The...
HEALTH
HEALTHWATCH: Best Food to Slow Resting Heart Rate
By Michael, Greger MD FACLM Monitoring resting heart rate has strong advantages. Taking your pulse is cheap, takes little time, is understandable to...
Sex education blocked as child pregnancies soar
Pregnancies among Panama aged 10-19 years continue to climb with a total of 10,405 entering pre-natal control facilities of the...
HEALTH: Hearing of a billion young at risk from smartphones
GENEVA, Switzerland – More than one billion young people risk damaging their hearing through excessive use of smartphones and...
HEALTH: Helping the body and environment
Beans, lentils, pigeon peas ... all of them are indisputable protagonists of the Central American diet and a fundamental part...
HEALTH: Protection against cardiovascular problems
By Dr. Charanjit Rihal, Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester There are steps you can take to protect yourself from coronary...
HEALTH: How to Boost DNA Repair
By Michael Greger “In the light of strikingly consistent observations from many epidemiological studies, there can be little doubt that...
9 children die from whooping cough
At least nine children have died from whooping cough in the Ngäbe Buglé comarca, where part of the community belongs...
HEALTH: Being thin doesn’t cancel need for proper diet
By Dr. Donald Hensrud, (Preventive Medicine, Mayo Clinic), It’s true that obesity is a risk factor for many health problems,...
HEALTH: The ongoing dangers of vaping
By Dr. Jon Ebbert, Using e-cigarettes — a practice often referred to as “vaping” — has been touted as...
HEALTH: Vinegar A beneficial condiment
By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM As I note in my chapter on greens in my book How Not to...
Health insurance alert
The Superintendency of Insurance and Reinsurance of Panama (SSRP) has issued an alert about the marketing of unapproved health policies....
