Children Healthy Care

Do you give to feed my child? What you need to be well fed? Here are some questions that many parents have when they take the challenge of changing the diet of children, adopting healthier habits that enable them to maintain an ideal weight

Editorial Team Vital Point
It is not easy to change the diet of the overnight. This is a long process certainly involves significant changes in the daily routine of children and adults.

But what do we mean by healthy eating? Basically corresponds to the balanced intake of foods that provide essential nutrients (minerals, vitamins and proteins) to the proper functioning and healthy condition of the body. Such is the case of vegetables, fruits, dairy products, lean meats, whole grains and vegetable oils. (more…)

Cancer remains one of the largest and most troubling diseases century. Although there are several avenues of investigation open, now a two vaccines opens a door to hope for metastatic tumors of the ovary and breast.

Cancer vaccines
The research has been published already in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. The vaccine, which has been developed from a family of virus-poxvirus compounds has the function of DNA and molecules to create antigens that stimulate the immune response in cancer cells. That is, ending with these tumor cells. Furthermore, the only side effect is that the patient has the same symptoms or similar to the flu.

At the moment, although conclusive results are yet to know if the vaccine is effective in this difficult disease, it does indeed have obtained positive results in the U.S.. In a group of 26 patients with ovarian cancer, all in an advanced stage of disease was achieved several months of survival.