Month: September 2011

Phonak organizes the fourth European Conference on pediatric amplification in Istanbul.

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Phonak organizes the fourth European Conference on pediatric amplification in Istanbul

Spain, 2011-September the hotel Marmara Taksim Istanbul (Turkey) will host the fourth European Conference on pediatric amplification organized by Phonak coming on 14 and 15 November. This international meeting will bring together renowned experts who will present the latest research and clinical experiences on solutions aimed at children with hearing loss.

The President of the Conference, Professor John Bamford, and the Phonak Pediatric Advisory Board have developed a program of two days in which 17 specialists addressed in different sessions aspects as identification of the problem, the evolution of amplification, implants cochleovestibular, support for families of children with hearing loss or the evaluation of results, among others.

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The start of the consumption of alcohol among young people is made during the ESO.

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The start of the consumption of alcohol among young people is made during the that.

Study of the Institute of research in primary care (diáp Jordi Gol) and the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) on the alcohol consumption among young people of the Central Catalonia.

-the alcohol consumption among the pre-teens is high. The boys are initiated into consumption rather than girls. The percentage of young people which declares to have been drunk increases with age and is similar in both sexes

Spain, 2011-September the study, presented and awarded as the best work in the V Jornadas of exchange of experiences of SAP Bages-Berguedà, made 259 students first (13 years) and third that (15 years) of 5 schools (IES Castellet)(, SES Castellbell, IES Vacarisses, Academy Montserrat and Virgin of the Rosary College) in eight municipalities of the South Bages: Castellbell i el Vilar, Castellgalí, Marganell, Monistrol, Pont de Vilomara, Rellinars, Sant. Vincent and Vacarisses.

The objective was to describe the alcohol consumption among adolescents in an area semi rural as it is the Bages, in the province of Barcelona.

Preliminary results

45% Of pupils in first that and 74% of the second, have drunk at least half a glass of alcoholic beverage ever. Among these students that ever have consumed alcohol, preliminary results show the following:

1.-has not been detected consumption during the week, but change the weekend. In fact, 10% of students in that first and 21 per cent of third consume on weekends. Do also family celebrations, where there are more young people to consume alcohol (34% of the first that pupils who have tried alcohol and 44 per cent of the third).

2. Half of the third that guys who have tried alcohol (50%) recognized that he had drunk some time in the last year. This percentage is lower in the case of pupils in first that (23.5%).
There is no much difference between the sexes.

3. In the same way, 33% of young people from third parties who have tried alcohol acknowledged having consumed on any occasion more than 5 alcoholic beverages at once. In the case of boys and girls of that first, the percentage falls to 9.5% and 2.5% respectively.

4. Finally, more than half of young people expressed that they believed that alcohol was the most fun holidays.

Conclusions

According to Dr.. LAIA Font, one of the authors of the study, “what we saw at the moment, with preliminary data at our disposal, it’s makes the start of the consumption of alcohol among young people during that and that consumption of leisure (with friends, drinking,…)” during the courses greatly increases “.

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Fundación Salud 2000 extends the deadline for the convening of the journalistic Prize I on head and neck cancer.

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La Fundación Salud 2000 extends the deadline for the convening of the journalistic Prize I on cancer of head and neck.

can submit works published between January 1 and October 31, 2011.


– are awarded to professionals who have best contributed to disseminate information on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer

-the work submitted must be original and published and/or issued in press, press digital, blogs, radio and television, between January 1, 2011 and on October 31, 2011

-the main prize is endowed with 6,000 euros and the second and third, with 1,500 euros each

Madrid, 2011-September La Fundación Salud 2000 extends until October 31 deadline to submit works to the journalistic Prize I in head and neck cancer

In order to encourage the publication of articles on head and neck cancer and raise awareness among the population and the científico-médica community of the importance of this pathology that has become the fifth tumor with greater incidence in the world’s populationthe 2000 Health Foundation has convened the journalistic Prize I on head and neck cancer.

The consumption of alcohol and tobacco are the main factors of risk for this type of cancer that Spain suffer nearly 37,000 people. On the other hand, each year occur approximately 12,000 new cases occurring in most of the time through tumors in glands salivary, lips, larynx or nasal cavity.

In this sense, this award recognizes the work of those communication professionals who have contributed to the dissemination of knowledge related to cancer of head and neck valuing, especially the information concerning the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Fundación Salud 2000, that counts in this initiative with the collaboration of the group Spanish of treatment of tumors of head and neck (TTCC) and the German chemical company pharmaceutical Merck, admissible nominations until 31 October.

The work submitted must have been published and/or issued in Spanish, national or regional media between January 1, 2011 and on October 31, 2011. They must be original and published and/or issued in print media, digital media, blogs, radio and television.

First prize is endowed with 6,000 euros and the second and third, with 1,500 euros each.

To submit nominations, it is essential that applicants send original work along with two copies of the same to the headquarters of the Fundación Salud 2000.

Fundación Salud 2000
c / General Martínez Campos, 41 – 3rd floor
28010 Madrid
Ref. Journalism Award on head and neck cancer

the basis of the award can be found in merck and Foundation Health 2000.

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Telemedicine cheaper rehabilitation for older people.

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Telemedicine cheaper rehabilitation for people over.

Desarrollan Habilis, an integrated platform that will offer tele-rehabilitación patients, without having to leave their home environment and under supervision.

Spain, 2011-September Improving clinical care received by patients facing serious situations, such as acquired brain injury or chronic pathologies, generates new socio-health challenges in the field of Bioengineering and telemedicine.

Under the programme of the European Commission ICT, researchers of the < http: www.upm.es>Universidad Polytechnic of Madrid, in collaboration with a European Consortium, have developed the project CLEAR (Clinical Leading Environment for the Assessment of rehabilitation protocols in home care) to establish and evaluate new services tele-rehabilitación in four countries of the EU MemberSpain, Italy, Netherlands and Poland. The objective of the study is the setting up of the European platform of tele-rehabilitación Habilis, to help the standardisation of e-health and rehabilitation, in the European Union.

“ This platform will be integrated into hospitals, with information systems which has the health centre, both technological and clinically ”, explains Enrique j. Gómez, Professor of the ETSI Telecomunicación UPM project team coordinator. From a clinical point of view, physiotherapists and neuropsychlogists will offer these specialized services within your clinical routine, so that the platform “ will help both the patient and medical personnel to perform these services tele-rehabilitación ”, added Gómez.

Rehabilitation in the home of the patient environment

Habilis platform will help the therapist by advertising the procedures of rehabilitation that has to make the patient at home, once it has executed some of them own hospital. This, says Professor of UPM, will require a remote monitoring of patients, enabling a synchronous communication, through low-cost technologies, such as video conferencing services, “ for example, in the case of a cognitive rehabilitationa neuro-psychologist may serve a greater number of patients in a more eco-friendly environment and reduce the current cost of health systems ”.

Through the platform, in accordance with the improvement of the patient, you can plan a new therapy or modify any aspect to optimize. To develop the project, has created a management and collaborative content portal based on web technologies 2.0 and interface design focused on the user, under criteria of usability.

CLEAR aims to establish an e-health service innovator, based on the development of protocols for chronic disease and rehabilitation therapies. This is intended to improve the quality of life of patients, reducing the need to go to health centres and improving the effectiveness and utilization of the resources of the health centres, increasingly more limited.

Sustainable technologies for older people

To demonstrate the usefulness of these sustainable technological solutions, tele-rehabilitación services will be evaluated by a group of more than 1000 patients. Its advantages and innovations will benefit older people divided into three main groups of patients: those who have suffered a brain-vascular incident, known as the stroke, that must be a process of cognitive and functional rehabilitation beyond specialized Centre, once the acute phase has passed. The second group together patients with chronic complications, such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Finally, the third group consists of those patients who have has practiced surgery for a hip or knee prosthesis implantation.

UPM has coordinated the technical part of CLEAR in collaboration with the Italian company sign Motus, leader of the project. This Spanish University has played three fundamental tasks: development of own Habilis platform, user interface design and the module of interoperability to facilitate integration into the platform for other modules of rehabilitation, as well as with existing hospital information systems.

According to stresses César Cáceres, technical responsible of the project within the Bioengineering and telemedicine of the ETSI Telecomunicación UPM group, will be possible, for example, “ integrate the PREVIRNEC system of cognitive rehabilitation of Institut Guttmann, one of the partners in this project, the platform Habilis, so that from this it can also communicate with the patient’s medical history ”.

Habilis Europe

In addition, CLEAR create Habilis Europe Consortium, its commercial exploitation and expansion to other European countries. In this way, there will be a Spain Habilis, Habilis Holland or Habilis Italy. All of them will be coordinated by Habilis Europe, with the aim of improving rehabilitation services currently offered to present a clear limitation in establishing treatment over the health centre.

With a budget of more than five million euros and coordinated by the Italian company sign Motus s.r.l., the project is comprised of 13 entities from four States members (Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Poland). Among them, in addition to the UPM are the Fundació Privada Institut of Neurorehabilitació Guttmann (Spain), the Roessingh Research and Development Centre (Netherlands), the Medical University of Warsaw (Poland), and the Institute Superiore di Sanitá (Italy).

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips