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Read MoreDENTAID sponsors the course of University expert in periodontics offered by the USC
the course is taught at the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Santiago de Compostela and is directed by Professor Dr. Juan Blanco carrion
Barcelona, February 2012.- from the month of October 2011 through June of this yearthe University of Santiago de Compostela offers the course of expert University in periodontics Dentaid-sponsored and directed by the Professor Juan Blanco Carrión and DRA. Pilar battle as coordinator of the same.
In the course, which is aimed at graduates in dentistry or specialists in dentistry, participants can view live surgical interventions, practices on jaws of pork and/or fantomas and practices of presentation and discussion of clinical cases and treatment planning.
The course consists of nine modules that take place Thursday afternoon, Friday all day and Saturday mornings.
The módulo:
-module 1: differential periodontal.
-module 2: non-surgical treatment
-module 3: surgical treatment of periodontal infection
-module 4: tissue regeneration
-Module 5: periodontal plastic surgery
-Module 6: Perio-implant I
-module 7: Perio-implant II
-module 8: Symposium on Periodontics and implant
-Module 9: interdisciplinary treatment
information and prices:
Secretary of the Faculty of dentistry
University of Santiago de Compostela
Tfno. + 34 9815631 Ext. 12340
www.usc.es/cptf
periodoncia@usc.es
Spain international-minded leader
founded in 1980Dentaid has grown to become a leading company in research oral, able to offer the best solutions for next generation professionals and patients. Among the products it sells are brands of both prestige and Vitis ®, Perio – Aid ®, Desensin ®, Interprox ®, halite ®, Xeros Dentaid ®, Waterpik ® and Fittydent ®.
Its business strategy is supported by a firm commitment by research and the constant development of new products of high quality. A bet that has led the company to become a multinational company, with a presence in more than 40 countries.
Dentaid is a pioneer in the use of Web 2.0 tools, being present in the major social networks.
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GalChimia starts the process to be the first chemical company in Spain quoted in the MAB.
the Galician company aims to boost its internationalization process and enhance its capacity operational.
Santiago de Compostela, February 2012.- the Galician company GalChimia, a leader in Spain in services of synthetic organic chemistry oriented to the provision of advanced services to the pharmaceutical industry, has begun the process to quote in the market alternative investment market (aim).
GalChimia, headquartered in O Pino (A Coruña), will be the first Spanish company in the chemical industry listed in the MAB. The company announced its decision this morning, in the meeting of investors in the biotechnology cluster of Galicia (Bioga) in Santiago.
DCM Asesores will act as a consultant registered in the process, it intends to develop during the first half of the year. The company had also counselling goals BioTech, signature expert consulting services business to companies and investors in the life sciences sector.
With his departure to the MAB, the company will boost its internationalization process and will improve its operational capacity. GalChimia, founded in the year 2001, among others, by Carme PampÃn and James crosses, develops high value-added services for the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in Europe and United States.
GalChimia boasts a portfolio of more than one hundred customers in 25 countries, among the Almirall, Palau Pharma and Esteve, pharmaceutical and biotechnological Noscira, Midatech, GenMedica Therapeutics and Neuron BPH.
The path of steady growth of GalChimia in recent years has led to the decision to quote in the MAB company. Despite the economic crisis, their participation in national and international projects increasing has been increasing and, since its inception, the firm has become the most prominent example of business success in his sector.
the MAB is a stock market that operates with small capitalization companies seeking to expand. Listed companies put into value your business and improve their competitiveness, as well as bring new ways of financing, visibility to investors, liquidity and an objective assessment.
Galchimia, founded in the year 2001, is a leader in the Spanish market in synthetic organic chemistry processes. The company works with pharmaceutical companies in Europe, United States.UU. and Asia. Currently the company is intensifying the process of internationalisation.
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A study of the Spanish society of Epidemiology (SEE) confirms that the new law on tobacco (Act 42/2010) has been reduced by 90% the levels of exposure to second-hand smoke of tobacco in the premises of hospitality.
Barcelona, December of 2011- A study of the Spanish society of Epidemiology (SEE) confirms that the health measures against smoking law 42/2010 has managed to drastically reduce the levels of exposure to environmental smoke of workers in the catering. The main objective of this law which entered into force in January 2011 was the extension of the ban on smoking in enclosed spaces already in force since 2006, in line with the ratification by Spain, in December 2004, of the framework Convention for Tobacco Control of the who. The new smoking law amended the Act of 2005 banning smoking in all premises of hospitality, which had been considered as an exception by the previous Act.
During the first year of implementation of the new rules, widely accepted by the vast majority of society, has been a study for exposure markers purposes, to analyze the real impact on the levels of environmental tobacco smoke in local hospitality. Environmental tobacco smoke is a carcinogen recognized by the international agency to research on cancer of who that is present in high concentrations in places where there is smoking. The study, carried out by the smoking of the Spanish society of epidemiology group with funding from the Ministry of health, Social Affairs and equality, has been in three autonomous communities (Galicia, Madrid and Catalonia). In different populations of these communities (including Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela and Terrassa) bars and restaurants that allow smoking were studied. In them, measurements were conducted in air samples during the two months prior to the implementation of the law (November-December 2010) were repeated during the second quarter of 2011 (April-May 2011). As environmental tobacco smoke markers measured nicotine in phase steam on all the selected premises and, in a subsample of premises, the particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5).
Preliminary results, based on 140 measurements of nicotine and 58 measurements of PM2.5, show that the median concentration of nicotine has declined by more than 90 per cent, from 5.74 mg/m3 before the law to 0.54 mg/m3 after its implementation. The percentage change in the case of PM2.5, 5 also exceeds 90%, from a median concentration of 235,62 mg/m3 to 20.40 mg/m3 after the Act. In fact, the concentration of PM2.5 before the new law was approximately 10 times higher than the limit proposed by the EU (25 mg/m3) for air pollution.
The study confirms that the law 42/2010 new has had a very important impact on the reduction of the levels of environmental smoke on the premises of hotel and catering business Spanish. These data imply a considerable decrease of the risk to which they were exposed customers and workers in this sector.
Even so, researchers have found detectable levels of environmental tobacco smoke in the majority of measurements taken after the Act, which mostly comes from tobacco at the gates of the same, as the own study finds.
In the future, it would be important to maintain continuous surveillance and monitoring systems, as well as recommend not smoking at the gates of these establishments. In addition, the Spanish society of epidemiology points out that alongside the maintenance without setbacks of the current legislation, should promote both preventive measures aimed at avoiding consumption in young people and measures to promote and facilitate the abandonment of tobacco, with the ultimate goal of ensuring a fundamental right of all citizens as it is health.
The Spanish society of epidemiology participates in the national tobacco prevention Committee since its foundation in 1996. In addition, it has had an important role in the advancement of standards for the regulation of spaces without smoke, through reports and scientific studies, including the monograph for assessment of the previous law (law 28/2005), which was funded by the Ministry of health, Social Affairs and equal.
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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 28 (EUROPA PRESS)
One of the vowels of the College of pharmacists of A Coruña, Pilar MartÃnez de la Riva, has admitted Monday that there are “locks” in “some” health, cards that prevent that it can dispense the treatment of these patients.
Asked by journalists after the signing of an agreement with several associations of patients, the pharmaceutical has affected that “they came to light some errors” and “some people found that he could not dispense your medication”.
For these cases, as mentioned, “there is a contact telephone number” which has facilitated the Xunta so that “every person resolve their problem”. “I imagine that all will be resolved, I am convinced that the Administration will not leave anyone without his treatment has opined.
Said, had decided that those affected by this “block” will have to “talk with the Administration”, given that it is surely “an administrative problem”. “Something that was outside of your site or isn’t where it should be” has reflected MartÃnez of the Riva.
Thereon, told Europa Press, the delegate of the Association of Glaucoma of Galicia in A Coruña, Luis GarcÃa, deemed “unacceptable” to happen, above all, no patients to be previously informed. “They hear in pharmacies or health centres and are defenceless”, has disapproved.
Payment of medicines
As regards the possibility of pensioners to pay part of their drugs based on their income, as they have proposed various positions of the PP, the pharmaceutical has indicated that this issue was not addressed in the governing bodies of the Association.
That Yes, “personally”, has opined that “something must be done” to promote the sustainability of the health system. “I don’t know what to do, but something”, has affected, in favour of reducing costs “in many other aspects of health life”.
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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 28 (EUROPA PRESS)
One of the vowels of the College of pharmacists of A Coruña, Pilar MartÃnez de la Riva, has admitted Monday that there are “locks” in “some” health, cards that prevent that it can dispense the treatment of these patients.
Asked by journalists after the signing of an agreement with several associations of patients, the pharmaceutical has affected that “they came to light some errors” and “some people found that he could not dispense your medication”.
For these cases, as mentioned, “there is a contact telephone number” which has facilitated the Xunta so that “every person resolve their problem”. “I imagine that all will be resolved, I am convinced that the Administration will not leave anyone without his treatment has opined.
Said, had decided that those affected by this “block” will have to “talk with the Administration”, given that it is surely “an administrative problem”. “Something that was outside of your site or isn’t where it should be” has reflected MartÃnez of the Riva.
Thereon, told Europa Press, the delegate of the Association of Glaucoma of Galicia in A Coruña, Luis GarcÃa, deemed “unacceptable” to happen, above all, no patients to be previously informed. “They hear in pharmacies or health centres and are defenceless”, has disapproved.
Payment of medicines
As regards the possibility of pensioners to pay part of their drugs based on their income, as they have proposed various positions of the PP, the pharmaceutical has indicated that this issue was not addressed in the governing bodies of the Association.
That Yes, “personally”, has opined that “something must be done” to promote the sustainability of the health system. “I don’t know what to do, but something”, has affected, in favour of reducing costs “in many other aspects of health life”.
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created a newspaper about psoriasis on the occasion of world day of the disease
the newspaper will be launched by the pharmaceutical company LEO Pharma.
Spain, October 2009.- LEO Pharma laboratory launched a journal on psoriasis today 29th October, on the occasion of the celebration that day of the world day of this chronic disease of the skin which affects more than 650,000 people in Spain. The newspaper will be distributed with a free daily newspaper in Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, Valencia, Sevilla, Oviedo, Gijón, A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela.
Under the title Psorinfo, this edition only for this day newspaper, aims to inform psoriasis among the general public. Its contents include an interview with the President of the Spanish Association of patients action Psoriasis, interviews with dermatologists, the testimony of a patient who suffers from the disease for more than 50 years, as well as information on the disease, its causes and consequences, treatments, and tips for living well with psoriasis, among other content.
The day
Held for the first time in 2004, are already five made editions of the world Psoriasis day. This day, that programme activities around the world, is intended to inform this disease that affects 125 million people in the world and on which weighs even a great ignorance. Another objective of this workshop is to include psoriasis on the agenda of Government health departments, and that they are aware of the scope of the severity of the disease.
LEO Pharma laboratory
For years this laboratory projecting their research, through Foundation LEO Pharma, towards the search for new and better treatments for psoriasis, by now a chronic and incurable disease. With the newspaper Psorinfo the laboratory aims to promote understanding of psoriasis in Spain and help eliminate some of the barriers faced by patients of the disease, often faced social rejection caused by ignorance of it, as for example the false belief that it is a contagious disease.
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cold weather causes a surge in cases of bronchiolitis.
temperatures facilitate the transmission of the respiratory syncytial virus, main causative infectious agent of bronchiolitis in children
some emergency room and ICU services have been multiplied cases, especially in these two last months.
Madrid, 2011-March with the sharp drop in temperatures has been a significant increase in cases of bronchiolitis. In the December-February period multiplied emergencies for infants affected by respiratory infections caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). According to the DRA. Maria Victoria Ramos, Assistant doctor in the service of Pediatric ICU of Hospital 12 October Madrid, “ only in December and January were more children by VRS in whole epidemic station of the year ”.
el Dr. Martinón, head of Department and coordinator of the healthcare area of Paediatrics of the University Clinical Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, asserts that “ the epidemiological data collected to date on infection by respiratory syncytial virus show a significant increase of cases (about a third) with respect to those observed last year. Bronchiolitis is a peak that usually extends from late autumn to mid winter; the period from November to April is usually presents a greater number of cases ”. The DRA. Mª Victoria Ramos added that “ with the available data can say that in March of last year there was income for VRS in the ICU with very advanced month, and in April continued seeing cases of VRS in the emergency ”
according to the experts at lower temperatures, rainfall and humidity, the virus remain longer in the environment. In the words of Dr. r. Lejarazu Ortiz, head of the service of Microbiology and Immunology of the Hospital ClÃnico Universitario in Valladolid, “ climate is essential in the behaviour of the virus. At very low temperatures, it’s as if the environment outside a ‘ fridge ’ for viruses, so it makes it easier transmission of the same ”.
in this situation, experts warn of the need for prevention of the most vulnerable babies with existing prophylaxis against RSV. Preterm infants, infants with heart disease or infants with chronic lung disease are more vulnerable to bronchiolitis.
according to the DRA. Ramos, “ in the Pediatric ICU of the October 12 Hospital service group more we are preterm infants and infants with brothers in school age, especially infants with less than 20 days. These babies may be up to 14 days hospitalized due to bronchiolitis. In patients at risk, we look at the effectiveness of the preventive treatment; babies included in the recommendations of prophylaxis, except certain preterm infants, does not enter with gravity ”.
el Dr. Ortiz of Lejarazu says that “ there are various publications that demonstrate an increase in the incidence of hospitalizations for VRS in the last ten years. The incidence by bronchiolitis is always much higher in children under two years, premature babies or those with chronic diseases. RSV infections are responsible for 1 in every 2 pediatric hospitalizations in this period ”.
el VRS affects the lower part of the respiratory system and manifests itself initially with rhinitis and sometimes fever. Later appear the classic symptoms of bronchiolitis due to obstruction in the respiratory tract. The most severe cases of this pathogen can result in death; die more infants less than one year from the Respiratory Syncytial Virus than flu.
about Abbott.
Abbott is a company dedicated to the care of health through the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceuticals and medical products, including nutritional products and medical devices and Diagnostics. The company employs about 90,000 people worldwide and sells its products in more than 130 countries.
Abbott is certified as the best company to work in the health sector and the second in the overall ranking of sectors as Best Workplaces Spain 2010. Abbott has over 1,500 employees and 60 years of history in our country. The company’s activity is oriented to meet the needs of patients with chronic diseases and high clinical, economic, social and emotional impact. Abbott has a presence in all areas of the Spanish healthcare industry (including r & d and manufacturing at its centres in Madrid, Granada and Alcobendas). Its products cover all phases of the process of the disease (prevention, diagnosis, treatment and healing) and are present at every moment of the life cycle: infant, childhood, adolescence, maturity and old age.
