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 | Order of Dr. Rodolfo Robles
Dr. Guillermo Claverie, was awarded with the Order of “Dr. Rodolfo Robles”, for his merits and altruism.
Recently, Dr. Guillermo Claverie, an active member of this institution in the specialty of Traumatology and Orthopedics, was distinguished for his merits and altruism with the Order of “Dr. Rodolfo Robles”. Hospital Herrera Llerandi Hospital joins all those who have already congratulated Dr. Claverie for such a deserved recognition. . . .
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|  | MODERN AND EFFICIENT INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
Hospital Herrera Llerandi has the most modern Intensive Care Unit, with the most important technological innovations, introduced thanks to donations from renowned doctors, in order to ensure that this Unit be safe and efficient for the well being of all patients treated there.
In accordance with its vision of providing excellent medical services in Guatemala, Hospital Herrera Llerandi has made novel changes in providing such services in recent years. Among the most evident examples . . .
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|  | Quitting smoking reduces complications for hypertensive patients in 50%
Quitting smoking is one of the most efficient measures to reduce cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients. Such is the opinion of Dr. Peter Sleight from Oxford University (Great Britain) and Dr. Thomas Hedner from the University Hospital in Göteborg, Sweden, both coordinators of the Tobacco and Hypertension symposium which takes place as part of the 16th European Hypertension Society Congress.
Tobacco consumption is responsible for 20% and 5% of deaths in men and women, respect . . .
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|  | Coffee drinking and risk of contracting liver cirrhosis
Drinking coffee may be associated to a lesser risk in developing liver cirrhosis, concludes a study published in “Archives of Internal Medicine”, by researchers from Kaiser Permanent Medical Care Program (USA).
The results are based on data from over 125,000 men and women free of hepatic disease at the beginning of the study, examined between 1978 and 1985. Participants disclosed information on their drinking habits of alcohol, tea and coffee.
By the end of 2001, 330 individ . . .
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|  | Diabetes almost triples mortality in people over 65.
The diagnosis of this illness is usually done when high levels of glucose (hyperglycemia) are found in a test or when patients make a consultation for other associated illness, such as a myocardial infarction or an infection. Frequently, hyperglycemia symptoms in the elderly are not too specific: lack of energy, sense of instability or incontinence, among others. Most of diabetic cases for people over 65 are type 2 diabetes, and seem to have as origin a genetic predisposition (family . . .
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|  | Contraceptive patches introduce better safety
Contraceptive methods are on the renovation path with the application of the patch. According to a study over a sample of 2,640 women in a fertile age, representing all autonomous communities in Spain, women tend to use this contraceptive method over the more traditional methods, because it is easier and more comfortable to use.
Evidence from the study shows that 47% of women name the contraceptive patch as their first choice, especially for its comfort and safety. One of the gre . . .
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|  | Biotechnology clinical tests against cancer fail
Just after the FDA didn’t approve the promising Erbitux, last December, clinical tests in their last phase have been stalled for another drug against cancer. Pharmacia, the company which was developing it, had announced it has frozen investigations on SU5416, after noticing it didn’t extend the life expectancy of patients, more than the one resulting from using traditional chemotherapy.
SU5416 –which was expected to be made available in the market by 2004– is a drug designed to “ . . .
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|  | New WHO study attacks tobacco companies
Profits at the expense of people is mentioned in a new study made public today by the World Health Organization (WHO). It discloses that transnational tobacco companies have been implementing vast and deliberately misleading campaigns for the past ten years in Latin American and Caribbean countries, designed to avoid or delay restrictions on tobacco consumption and limitations on its marketing.
This study is the result of one year of work, performed by a team of researchers, who r . . .
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|  | Hospital Herrera Llerandi opens 5 new operating rooms.
Hospital Herrera Llerandi opens its new operating rooms
Adequate hospital infrastructure at the level of hospitals abroad; modern anesthesia monitors, bacteriological control, sterilization and purification of air, modern technologies to perform surgeries…………
Guatemala, March 23rd, 2006.- Innovating hospital infrastructure and medical technology, Hospital Herrera Llerandi opened its new operating rooms, designed to create the optimal surgical surroundings, thinking about the . . .
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