“I knew again what joy was”: electrodes in the brain against severe anorexia in Belén | Health & Wellness

Four yogurts and two apples a day. Nothing else. That was all she ate, for 15 years, Ana Belén Gómez Conde. Anorexia entered her house shortly after getting married, when she was 27 years old (she is now 42) and she never left again. She stopped eating, going out and interacting with the world: locked … Read more

Martín Lázaro, oncologist: “With immunotherapy, we achieve long survivors in unthinkable tumors” | Health & Wellness

A scientific revolution underpins the foundations of the fight against cancer: it is now known that no two tumors are the same, even if they are housed in the same organ, and oncological research, immersed in knowing the fine print of tumors that molecular biology reveals , is moving towards more and more personalized drugs, … Read more

Lack of sleep affects our emotions, making us less positive and more anxious | Health & Wellness

With these data on the table, it is not strange that sleeping problems are beginning to be an issue that also keeps us awake as a society. There is increasing scientific evidence that demonstrates the relationship between chronic sleep deficit and the development of numerous diseases, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and some … Read more

Menopause, under debate: an analysis warns of the excessive medicalization of this vital process | Health & Wellness

Something is changing in the menopause narrative. On the street and in science. The silence around a vital process that half of the planet has experienced, is experiencing or will be experiencing has begun to crack among public opinion and the scientific and medical perspective is also beginning to question its mode of operation. A … Read more

Sharing a flat at 90 years old, the benefits of intergenerational coexistence | Health & Wellness

Conchita Satorres was looking for a roommate in Barcelona. This is always a complicated process, but even more so when you are 91 years old and your last roommate was your husband. When Conchita became widowed, she began to withdraw into herself. And in her apartment. “She almost didn’t go out,” she admits. “The little … Read more

Obesity is already the most common form of malnutrition in most countries | Health & Wellness

There is an epidemic that is crossing the globe from end to end and is devastating more than the covid: if the coronavirus crisis has left, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 774 million cases in the world, obesity already affects to more than a billion people. A study published this Thursday in The … Read more

What protects us from developing a mental disorder? | Health & Wellness

Now that mental health has become one of the main topics of interest and that public care centers are mostly overwhelmed, it may be useful to remember which factors have demonstrated a protective capacity in the development of mental disorders. Committing to prevention is a completely complementary measure to investing adequately in a quality healthcare … Read more

Carmen, the girl who holds the key to the treatment of diseases of genetic origin | Health & Wellness

Carmen was only three months old when, on Three Kings Day 2021, she was admitted to the hospital with seizures, nodding, heavy breathing and blinking. The prognosis was atrocious: “He has six months to live.” Javier Silva, his father, remembers the emptiness of the room, the vertigo, the pain that prevented him from thinking and … Read more