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What causes insomnia?

Many people suffer from insomnia or sleep disorders. Some can not sleep, others wake up at night and can no longer find sleep, others wake up very early in the morning.
Insomnia is not a disease. It is a way that takes the body to say that something is wrong. The causes of insomnia are many: stress, too much caffeine, depression, change of work schedule and pain associated with certain health problems, such as arthritis.

Insomnia is a problem serious?

30% to 40% of adults suffer from some type of insomnia in one year. Insomnia increases with age and is more common in women. Insomnia can become a serious problem. It can reduce your energy at work and cause anxiety or tension. People with insomnia often feel tired, depressed and irritable, and sometimes have difficulty concentrating. Insomnia cause drowsiness that can lead to automobile accidents and other risks and health problems.

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Adolescence is a period of psychological fragility. This is especially true for young cancer victims. The fact of the care with children or adults may hinder their recovery. For this reason, special care units have emerged in some hospitals. Reportage from the pediatric oncology department of the Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR) in Villejuif (Val de Marne).

Yellow Door Radio, large sofa, books and comics, video games, computer: Welcome to “squat”! Thus the young pediatric oncology department of the Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR) in Villejuif (Val de Marne), call their lounge. This piece, like the rest of the wing where it is located, is reserved.

“This is where those who wish can meet them and build relationships, both to break with their loneliness and to realize that they are not the only ones suffering from cancer,” Catherine explains Vergely, CEO of Isis Association, which supports parents and relatives of children treated at the IGR. Catherine Vergely is also president of the National Union of parents of children with cancer and leukemia.

A developing being
These young people “are not like other patients,” said Professor Marcel Rufo, Chief of Child Psychiatry of the University Hospital Sainte-Marguerite (Marseille). “The teenager is a teenager with cancer, a developing being, with his vulnerability, his questionings, his problem of self-image.” However, the announcement of cancer profoundly shaken his life project. (more…)

A necessary guidance
In Chile between 1998 and 2008, around 200 people died from this disease, two times more than in the previous decade, according to the latest report from the National Cancer Corporation (CONAC). According to the World Health Organization, each year some 48,000 people die because of melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. However, this could significantly decrease if taken appropriate precautionary measures.

Meanwhile, in Chile between 1998 and 2008, around 200 people died from this disease, two times more than in the previous decade, according to the latest report from the National Cancer Corporation (CONAC).

That’s why, German Clinic conducted by the eighth consecutive year, “prevention campaign that seeks to promote the protection of this organ, the largest body.

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Having an infection is a fact so common in children that we should regard it as almost normal, although it is not because any infection than normal means has been altered and has appeared a pathological phenomenon but in this case rare. We have all had infections of various types and pass by many more in the future. We have had and will have mild or severe infections, short or long, viral or bacterial infections, children or adults. It is clear that infections are of different types and affect people differently.

That in our body produces an infection requires two assumptions:
A. “That a pathogen enters the human body.
B. “That the human body and allows him to let them live and reproduce for a variable time (a little long, long time or indefinitely).

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