HC News

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]

Have you noticed how the music you listen to is related to your mood? When you are happy, you usually put on music that has a lively, catchy rhythm, while when you are sad, you choose something that is more melancholy. [Continue Reading]

This study provides an almost real-time, three-dimensional image of the heart. [Continue Reading]

What is it?

CT densitometry is the measurement of bone density (BMD, bone mineral density – the quantity of calcium per millilitre) using CT of the vertebrae in the lumbar spine. [Continue Reading]