Curitiba’s Association for Children with Heart Disease
“From now on, our work will be able to extend our reach and build our own headquarters, ready to accommodate distressed families who come to us, more fully than we have in the past.” This is the view of Maureen Class, president of the Lionheart Children’s Association of Paraná (APCL), which was founded last week in a ceremony in Curitiba’s More...
Law Warns Against Self-Medication
As of December 8, 2010, law 13.574, written by Councilman Tito Zeglin (PDT), which calls for the display of signs in the city’s pharmacies informing consumers of the risks of self-medication, is in force. More...
Fast-Food Must be Delivered in Sealed Containers
As of November 22, a new Municipal Law is in place that makes the use of inviolable seals on the containers of fast food for delivery to customers’ homes obligatory. The measure is aimed at avoiding possible More...
Nuclear Medicine Center Opens in Curitiba
Nuclear medicine is a medical speciality that uses safe, painless techniques to form images of the organs of the body and treat certain types of diseases. Patients receive an oral, intravenous or inhaled administration More...
Infantile Urinary Incontinence
Urinary loss is the third most frightening event for a child, coming in close behind fear of their parents’ death and the fear of going blind. Thus there is a strong reason for doctors to pay special attention More...
Early Detection of Breast Cancer
Despite the attention from scientific bodies that guide the screening programmes for early detection of breast cancer and the technological development of recent years, breast cancer continues to increase, with More...
New Coronary Diagnostic Imaging Methods at CETAC
With the advance of diagnostic and therapeutic medicine, heart diseases have been receiving more and more attention from those cardiologists who, in partnership with public institutions’ prophylactic and socio-educational More...
How To Be Healthy in Dry Weather
The Curitiba Department of Health urges the population to be careful in very dry weather. They recommend primarily to drink plenty of fluids. Children and the elderly are of greatest concern, as they tend to become More...
Sibutramine: Safe Drug to Assist Dieters?
Brazil now has more than 40 percent of its population who are overweight and another 10 percent who are obese. (According to SBEM, the Brazilian society of Endocrinology and Metabolism.) As a result drugs prescribed More...
Influenza H1N1: More Prevention Means More Protection
The vaccine for H1N1 Influenza will be administered free of charge to the entire population of Brazil, except for children under 6 months of age, who are advised not to receive the vaccine. Children aged 2 to 19 More...