Dr. Rafael Llorens León, the current chief of Cardiovascular Surgery of the Hospiten Rambla hospital, the associate of THIS, has recently received the prestigious ‘Pasteur Awards for Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical Research 2020’. The award ceremony took place at the emblematic Cortes hall of the Westin Palace Hotel in Madrid. Dr. Llorens, a specialist of…
The main function of the digestive system is to break down food and liquids that are being ingested into small molecules that will subsequently be transported through the gastrointestinal tract to be absorbed by our body in order to deliver nutrients where required. During this complex process some difficulties may occur, such as intestinal wall…
The evolution of science and technology has influenced many important changes in Dental medicine; the changes that affect our health in general, as problems of the mouth do not just remain in the mouth. The spectrum of dental treatments is not limited to merely aesthetic concerns and goes much further than these. Good oral health…
Cardiovascular diseases are conditions that affect the heart and its circulatory system. According to the WHO these diseases are the number one cause of deaths in the world, causing 235 deaths for each 100 000 inhabitants (data of the National Statistics Institute, 2018), with more than half of cases affecting women. The Canaries is the…
Around a half of all the medical consults in Spanish hospitals and health centers are related to pain in locomotor system and various traumas. The reasons why people require assistance of a Traumatology specialist are numerous: fractures and trauma causing severe pain, lumbar pain, pain in extremities that conventional pain-killers would not alleviate, traumas derived…
Modern scientific advances have permitted the development of various diagnostic methods for the detection of a wide range of diseases. One of such methods is a diagnostic test by image, which stands out by the amount of information it offers to the diagnostics specialists and which may simultaneously serve as a treatment itself. This method…
Obesity is one of the most significant and rapidly growing health problems in the Canaries. This pathology affects around 18% of the Canarian population and is causes numerous diseases that lead to the premature death of thousands of people. That is the reason why obesity treatments like stomach reduction are more and more frequent in…
Alopeciaaffects a great number of people, mostly men. That is the reason why many of them are considering having a hair implant or a hair transplant procedure done. But it can be difficult and overwhelming when it comes to selecting a specialized hair transplant center. In this post we will explain what this microsurgery consists…
The annual visit to a gynecologist is very important for all women. It is not always easy to find the right specialist, especially with such a vast choice of medical centers and many criteria to take into consideration. Are you looking for a gynecologist in Tenerife or in the Canary islands? In this article we…
We know how stressful it might be to look for a medical specialist. There are many reasons for that, for example, maybe you are not a local resident, maybe you do not speak the local language or maybe you are simply not accustomed to using private health care in the Canaries. However, there are great…