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Folk use of herbs and plants reputed as medicinal plants can cause adverse effects in the pediatric population, particularly newborns and infants younger with an underlying respiratory or digestive disease. Administration excessive and / or prolonged doses of a decoction in a patient previously ill, may explains herbs poisoning. Additionally, medical knowledge about herbal medicine is poor and patient’s family does not provide information about administration of these products. These circumstances could justify having basic information that allows to clinician to optimize diagnosis and treatment of plants poisoning and developing primary prevention programs.  

It briefly describes the scientific achievements of Dr. Luis Dao, emphasizing the description of the first global report congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease, occurred in Guárico State, Venezuela.

With the publication of the Revista Venezolana de Salud Pública we propose to contribute to the construction of a scientific communication space for the dissemination of science in this field of such social relevance. With the effort of all the actors of the Venezuelan Public Health, but with the doors open to interaction with others in Latinamerica and the world we expect to open roads to the transmission of knowledge, promote analysis, discussion and the strengthening of our intellectual heritage as an information base for the preparation of scientifically and socially supported health policies.

There are multiple physiopathological causes in which the physical activity is involved to counterattack  the risk of disease; therefore it is important  that the medical student knows about the physiological effects of exercise, because these aren’t pharmacologist’s  measures  that improve the quality of life of patients. The objective was to determine the immediate effects of exercise on hemodynamic, methabolic and anthropometric parameters in karate athletes. It was designed a prospective longitudinal descriptive study; the sample was composed of 27 athletes. the mentioned parameters were measured before starting the exercise and after an hour of physical activity. It was found a predominance of males(59,3%), the average age was 16,97 ± 8,0 years old. The average fat percentage was 7,90 ± 6,9. In relation to waist size 40,7% were obese. In terms of body mass index 11.1% were overweight. It showed a significant statistical difference in weight, heart rate, respiratory rate and diastolic blood pressure ((p = 0,0001; p = 0,001;  p= 0,001 y p = 0,04 respectively). Even though in blood glucose levels, in systolic blood pressure, and The oxygen saturation were observed differences between the averages before and after exercise, there weren’t statistically significant. It was concluded that exercise has immediate effects on heart and respiratory rate, diastolic blood pressure as well as weight.

           Descriptive study was conducted, using the rapid coverage monitoring, the population was equal to the sample with a total of 312 households, housing is considered effective those which determined the presence of children under 6 years. The technique for data collection was interview guided by a questionnaire, and found the following results of coverage: 88,46% for BCG, hepatitis B 73,07% for the RN, 26,92% polio, rotavirus 53,84%, 38,46% pentavalent, 40 antiinfluenza%, 56% and 40% viral trivalent for fever; these results being lower than those reported for the Lara state until August 2012. Of all children none met the national vaccination program and studied children 2-5 years of age was found 84,6% susceptible to vaccine-preventable diseases, being 77,53% and 56,18 for antiinfluenza for rotavirus. The predominant cause of failure was "no vaccine the day he played" 47,7% followed by "did not know I had to put" 35,77%, only 0,91% reported "medical contraindication. The importance of this research is to make known to the Epidemiology of Iribarren, outpatient and community community council "San Francisco II North", the results of coverage, performance, and reason for failure susceptibility, with the aim of reducing the susceptible population and thus achieve the reduction of morbidity and mortality for vaccine-preventable diseases and the economic impact that these conditions imply, through vaccination.

Malnutrition and the food crisis are facts that affect the majority of people living in Venezuela; this situation has been mentioned in this magazine on several occasions through research articles, as a public health problem. On the other hand, the Caritas Organization of Venezuela, estimates that in our country 280,000 children could die from malnutrition. In this sense, the studies reveal that during the year 2017, between five and six children died weekly due to lack of food, and that at least 33% of the child population had a delay in their growth1. In addition, malnutrition increases the risk of infections, viruses and bacteria, which leads to the appearance of various diseases typical of poorly nourished people; Among them are infections that in some cases, especially children, require prolonged hospital stays that affect their psychomotor development. One is Kwashiorkor, common in babies and children suffering from a strong protein deficiency; Its consequences are diarrhea, edema, liver damage and lack of growth. On the other hand, Marasmus is a type of malnutrition that occurs when the person's diet is insufficient in both calories and proteins; children with this malnutrition are very thin, with enlarged eyes

The history of Nursing in the state of Lara, Venezuela, begins at the Hospital "La Caridad", created in 1918 (now the Museum of Barquisimeto), where the Sisters of Charity (Sisters of St. Joseph of Tarbes) arrived from France. which were requested by Dr. Luis Razetti, to become the First Nurses of Lara State, it would take many decades for the Nursing Program in the Deanship of Medicine to be created due to the importance in the promotion of health in the region. of the Centroccidental University "Lisandro Alvarado", UCLA, in the month of October 1994 (in 2019 it is 25 years old) after being approved by the National Council of Universities (CNU) in January of this same year, with which the Deanery expanded its academic capacity, so, in 2008, it was renamed the Deanship of Health Sciences (CNU of 11/22/2007), graduating between 1994 and 2019, forty Promotions of Higher Technicians Univers In Nursing, from here, we have, that the first promotion of Nursing Technicians of UCLA, graduated on November 26, 1998 (Figure 1), choosing as eponymous Dr. Maria Gomez (first Director of the Nursing Program being the Sponsors of this nascent Promotion, Dr. Aida Torres, Lcda. Noris Zambrano, Lcda. Dilia Bohórquez and Dr. Oswaldo Valdivia2,3, 25 years after the XL Promotion of TSU in Nursing UCLA (Figure 2), is sponsored by Dr. Milva Javitt, MSc. Ma Laura Lorenzo, Dr. Migdalis Giménez, Lcda. Dairi Díaz and Lcdo. Anyer Heredia

We present the results of a project which included five activities in different sectors of the city of Barquisimeto in Lara state, with the intention of determining the level of knowledge that the community has on zoonoses. The activities were made in the communities of Yacural in Santa Rosa parish in two opportunities, in Patarata of Cathedral parish twice and Rotario District in Juan de Villegas parish, all of them in the municipality Iribarren of Lara state. The activities attended a total of 341 people whom were provided information on zoonotic diseases associated with pet ownership emphasizing on measures that can be used for prevention; also 215 pets were attended providing medical care and veterinary diagnostic for ecto and endoparasites; in some pet was found the presence of Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Ctenocephalides sp., Ancylostoma sp., Toxocara sp., Dipylidium caninum, Trichuris sp., Giardia sp. and Ehrlichia sp.

The Septo-Optic Dysplasia is a congenital hypoplasia of the optic nerves, structural alterations in the midline of the brain, primarily the absence of septum pellucidum and pituitary hypothalamic dysfunction, which is unstable. This paper describes the findings of a patient infant with septo-optic dysplasia, who is referred to the Genetics Medical Health Sciences of the University "Lisandro Alvarado". Findings are discussed, literature is reviewed and compared the features of this patient with the literature indicated. A diagnosis of Septo-Optic Dysplasia using this physical findings and neuro imaging.

With its slogan "To health for a health conscience", the magazine ser was presented as a fortnightly publication of the Division of Health Education of the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance of Venezuela, its distribution was free and its content could be reproduced freely without prior consultation, provided that they were not pursuing lucrative purposes or commercial propaganda. It was published monthly (two numbers came out together a month) and had a print run of 60,000 copies in full color. Its headquarters was in Caracas, Venezuela, on Avenida José Antonio Páez, Saumell Palace Building, El Paraíso.       The Journal was mainly addressed in a pleasant, simple and didactic way different topics of Public Health, Parasitology, Microbiology, Childcare, Nutrition, Mental Health, Road Health, Dentistry, Prevention against Drugs, School Health, Nursing and less frequently other topics as Botany and Entomology.