HC News

… the month of the year when we are thinking about the health of men. Wanting them to live a much happier life, a longer and a healthier one.
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To determine the most appropriate treatment after a stroke, the Emergency Department team must assess the type of cerebrovascular accident that you have had, and the area of the brain affected. They must also rule out different possible causes of the symptoms, such as other neurological conditions. The doctor may use several tests to determine a patient’s risk of stroke, including the following: [Continue Reading]

The diagnosis of breast cancer reaches many women (some men too). [Continue Reading]

Beta-amyloid PET imaging is a technology which enables us to diagnose Alzheimer’s when symptoms are still mild, enabling a plan to be established, slowing down deterioration and improving the patient’s quality of life. [Continue Reading]

One in six people in Spain will suffer an ictus throughout his life, but despite the high frequency of this episode many people do not even know what it is and what causes it. A stroke is a number of conditions that affect the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain. A stroke is like a heart attack, but in the brain. [Continue Reading]

Markers

1. Raised blood pressure
2. Increased girth *
3. Raised fasting triglycerides
4. High-density lipoprotein cholesterol
5. Hyperglycaemia [Continue Reading]

Music surrounds us and inundates us, it makes us emotional, lets us travel in time, it gives us strength or fills us in moments of peace. Music can be found anywhere, in every sound, every rhythm and in every voice, but: What really happens in our brain when we hear a melody?
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Why is the lack of female sexual desire one of the most debated and theorised questions in the field of sexuality, and yet at the present moment, it is still a great enigma? [Continue Reading]

We warmly welcome Dr. Jesús Romero Imbroda to the HC Marbella, where he is to be our new neurologist. [Continue Reading]

Dr. Jurado is a specialist in Medical Sexology and she is very enthusiastic about her appointment to our medical team at HC Marbella.

Dr. Jurado is the President of the Instituto Europeo de Sexología (European Institute of Sexology), Coordinator of ONSEX, Observatorio Nacional de Salud Sexual (National Observatory for Sexual Health) and Coordinator of the Working Group on Women’s Assistance of SEMERGEN, Sociedad Española de Médicos de Atención Primaria (Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians). She also acts as a legal mediator in the healthcare sector. [Continue Reading]