Month: September 2011

GSK extends its agreement with the World Health Organization for the Elimination of parasites affecting endemic countries in school age children.

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GSK extends its agreement with the World Health Organization for the Elimination of parasites that affect children in endemic countries-age school.

-Togo and Rwanda are the first countries that have received donations of albendazole ®, joining the programs of school deworming of children at risk of suffering from intestinal worms

-Donations are not limited to Africa, but it will also include endemic countries in Asia Pacific and Latin America

London, September 2011- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has taken one further step in its commitment to extending the donation of albendazole ® to the World Health Organization (who), for the treatment of school children at risk of intestinal worms, a disease known as “ helminthiasis ” (STH, for its acronym in English). The agreement formalizes the commitment that ahead of GSK, in October 2010, facilitate 400 million tablets of albendazole ® over a year who, for deworming of school-age African children. The agreement also includes other endemic countries outside Africa, albendazole ® donations to ensure that it will have the greatest possible effect.

Togo and Rwanda have received the first shipments of albendazole ® treatments. He is expected in the next twelve months to start programmes in Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda and Burkina Faso. To comply with its commitment, GSK has invested in its factory in South Africa, increasing the production capacity of albendazole ®.

Intestinal worms are the main cause of disease burden among schoolchildren in developing countries and often lead to delays in growth, anemia, malnutrition and poor performance (1). WHO try annually to children living in endemic areas with single dose albendazole (2) as desparasitadores drugs. Deworming causes considerable beneficial effects on health and child development, as well as improve attendance at classes, academic achievement and productivity (3,4). You can also reduce the excessive burden already facing health systems.

Andrew Witty, GSK CEO, explains that “ GSK is committed to contribute to the management of diseases that affect the countries of the world poorest, investing in the development of new drugs and vaccines, and taking steps to increase access to current treatments. Thanks to the formalization of this important agreement, we will contribute to ensuring one sufficient volume of desparasitadores drugs available to meet the needs around the world. Give a capsule a year every child is a measure of simple but effective, able to improve their health and development, and as a result, their academic performance, hoping to break the cycle of poverty in these countries ”.

For its part, the DRA. Margaret Chan, Director-general of who, acknowledges that “ who celebrated this donation, which will help facilitate increased health coverage to millions of children worldwide who suffer in silence the prolonged effects of intestinal worms ”.

GSK and who are working long time in the fight against neglected tropical diseases. In 1998, was formalized collaboration to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis. This donation of 400 million tablets of albendazole ® a year for treatment of intestinal worms, joins the continued commitment of GSK who deliver 600 million tablets of albendazole ® per year, for use in the Global Programme for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis (LF)(, more commonly known as “ elephantiasis ”), an desfigurativa disease that causes debilitating damage to the lymphatic system, kidneys, arms, legs and genitals. Thus, the total donation of GSK to who reaches 1 billion tablets of albendazole ® year.

Notes:

-Intestinal worms affect 800 million children worldwide (5).

-the biggest impact of the intestinal worms lies with the children. Among children aged 5-14 of low-income countries, the intestinal worms represent the 11 or 12% of the total burden of disease in this strip of age, the biggest single factor of disease (1).

-worms cause malnutrition, slowdown in growth and development. The anemia associated with hookworm in women of childbearing age contributes significantly to a weight reduced by birth and infant mortality (6) excess.

-school enrolment of girls increases with de-worming programmes, which improve drop-out and retention rates. Infection of worms cause a loss of approximately 200 million years of schooling in primary education (1).

– there are three large species of intestinal worms: the round worm (ascaris lumbricoides), strip (trichuris trichiura) and hookworm (necator americanus and duodenal hookworm).

-neglected tropical diseases (NTDS) are a group of infections chronic descapacitantes that affect populations of the world’s poorest. They are an indicator of poverty and disadvantage, and are among the most common infections of the 2.7 billion people, it is estimated, living with less than two dollars a day (7).

GlaxoSmithKline is one of the major pharmaceutical companies in the world research-based, and is committed to improving the quality of human life, allowing people to do more, feel better and live longer.

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Referencia:

(1) Thinking beyond deworming. The Lancet 2004, Vol 364, 9450: 1993 – 1994.

(2) Preventive chemotherapy in human helminthiasis: use coordinated antihelminthics drugs in control interventions: a handbook for health professionals and programme managers. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2006.

(3) First report of the who on neglected tropical diseases 2010: working to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases.

(4) Miguel and Kremer M, (2004) Worms: Identifying impacts on health and education in the presence of treatment externalities. Econometrica, Vol 72, 1: 159-217.

(5) WHO. Soil-transmitted helminthiasis: estimates of the number of children needing preventive chemotherapy and number treated, 2009. Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) 2011; NO. 25, 2001, 86: 257-268.

(6) Report of the third international meeting of partners in the pest control program “ de-worming for health and development ”. Geneva, 29 – 30 noviembre2004. World Health.

(7) Hotez PJ, et al., Control of neglected tropical diseases, N Engl J Med 2007, 357: 1018-27.

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Patients diagnosed with cancer.

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Patients diagnosed with cancer.

Information about the disease and a positive attitude are keys.

Caracas, Venezuela, 2011-September Every patient has the right to know the disease that affects it, treatment options, risks, side effects and the process of healing.

Patients with prostate cancer diagnosed early and that they are treated surgically or with radiation therapy or with endocrine therapy may experience undesirable side-effects on the sexual and urinary tract area which could negatively impact their quality of life. There that is relevant to prepare them prior to treatment in a realistic about those side effects that could alter the results post operative.

The Dr Elias Mora Kumboz , specialist in Oncology Urology, stresses the importance of truthful information in the connection physician-patient. “ regardless of the technique used (open surgery, laparoscopic or robotic) or alternate treatments (external radiotherapy or brachytherapy) with any method of treatment used can have excellent resultsas well as also complications and unwanted side effects are minimized depending on the experience of the surgeon and the individual characteristics of the patient and his illness ”.

According to a study published in August 2011 in the Magazine Journal of medicine the rate of satisfaction after open or robotic surgery varies between 80 to 90%, while the rate of frustration or repentance stood between 10 and 20%.

Terms of doctor Mora Kumboz that that level of frustration or repentance is that patients did not receive a realistic explanation during the pre operative about what should wait after the operation.

Adds the specialist that much information disseminated on the Internet, those offered by the companies that mercadean the robot and some health centres, usually to give optimistic results exaggerating the benefits, minimizing complications and this can confuse the patient, do have false expectations about the results you will get once you undergo any of the treatments mentioned above.

A young patient who has the disease located within the prostate, and a good sexual function pre operative, doing the surgery technically correct, will recover its functions in the post operative in most cases. What sometimes happens is that the patient, but has an optimal sexual life, can you believe that with the surgery or the robot will improve your sexual function and is not the case because these surgery used to remove the prostate, not to improve sexuality.

Doctor Mora Kumboz quote in a poll of United States asked patients with localized prostate cancer if they would accept a treatment that extend their life expectancy, but running the risk of losing their sexual function: a 20% say that it would not accept and 40% would accept treatment unconditionallywhich means that the priorities are not equal for all people.

Positive

Doctor Mora Kumboz points out that when you communicates to the patient who has cancer, it thinks that it is a death sentence and is not as well. “ Is highly impacted, begins to find out, ask, and in that search gets contradictory information, and this makes to confuse more ”.

It is unlikely that a patient process all the information relating to the treatment and its consequences there the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, where the latter should become an active part in making decisions about treatment to choose, based on the accurate and honest information physician so that in the end the beneficiary be patient.

Adds that it is essential that the patient will have a positive attitude, enabling it to relieve stress, in the same way, it is important to have a religious or spiritual support because it has not only the scientific.

Patients with cancer should receive the support of a multidisciplinary team involving the urologist, oncologist, nurses, technicians, psychologists, therapists in Group and family.

“ Group therapy can be very beneficial because listening to the testimony of survivors, how have how to overcome the disease, it can help to regain hope. Although it is good to note that not all diseases are equal and not all patients react in the same way ” said.

“ The ideal is a positive attitude, explains Dr. Mora Kumboz, balanced, with a realistic expectation. Doctors have a responsibility to educate and inform patients. Better technology is the experience of the surgeon and the respect that it deserves the patient. The healing process requires much more than science, requires a mobilization of the positive life expectancy of the patient. ”

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Madrid physiotherapists alleging misleading advertising in manual therapy courses offered by private schools.

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Madrid physiotherapists alleging misleading advertising in manual therapy courses offered by private centers

offered in academies and schools of training

-the College professional physiotherapists of the community of Madrid warning on the risks for health public entails dealt with by the people who attend them, as well as misleading advertising received by concerned citizens

-physiotherapy degree is that legally trained to use the massage in the treatment of injuries and ailments

Madrid, 2011-September the College professional physiotherapists of the community of Madrid expresses his complaint about misleading advertising used in courses not approved therapies such as massage, osteopathy, chiropractic … and other denominations, offered by private training schools and academies.

In this sense, the collegiate institution wants to warn of the risks for health public entails dealt with by people attending them, since that has been offered to people who lack qualified training, as well as the little scientific rigour of the subjects taught by teachers. The degree of physical therapy is that legally trained for this type of therapy in the treatment of injuries and ailments.

“ The training offer of these courses not approved clearly invades the skills of physiotherapists, to be addressed openly, to all persons with some sort of interest in the same ”, says the College.

For this reason, the representative institution of Madrid physiotherapists said that “ those who are interested in training in those areas and to legally exercise them in Spain, should pursue College of physical therapy degree/diploma title ”.

According to expresses the College, “ fictional titles or certificates issued by this kind of private schools not credited, not enabled, and not legitimize professionally to treat sick or injured ”.

In this sense, the professional school of the physiotherapists of the Madrid community has denounced the General direction of consumption in the region at several academies and training centres that advertised this type of course.

“ Our institution continue to denounce all those cases of misleading advertising aimed at the citizen, by these private educational entities, and will demand to be withdrawn as soon as possible this type of advertising that fool the consumer clearly ”, declared the Secretary General of the school professional of physiotherapists in the community of Madrid, José Santos.

Also gives a message to potential students of this type of training does not regladas, in the sense that “ such centres advertise that, with their training, they will have a professional solution with great future, but the truth is that, in addition to receiving a questionable rigorous training, the existing legality not allowed treat patientsgiven that this activity is reserved to healthcare professionals recognized in the law of management of health professions ”

also indicates that, before receiving a care for a medical condition or pathology, “ is necessary to ensure that the person who will respond to one is a health care professional ”. In this regard, consult, “ of quick and easy ”, the website of the institution, as well as make sure downtown where go to try to comply with all municipal licences and required health.

Professional College of physiotherapists of the community of Madrid

The Professional College of physiotherapists of the community of Madrid is an organization representing more than 7,000 physiotherapists at the regional level. Its objectives are the safeguard of the principles of ethics and ethical physical therapy, the defence and the promotion of health and the well-being of the citizens of the community of Madrid, in collaboration with the public authorities, as well as the scientific, cultural advocacyEconomic and social of the collegiate.

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Physical therapy accelerates the recovery process and minimize the aftermath after prostate interventions.

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The physical therapy accelerates the recovery process and minimize the aftermath after prostate interventions

on the occasion of the day European of health prostate.

Madrid, September 2011.- the Secretary general of the General Council of schools of physical therapists of Spain (CGCFE), Manuel Alcantarilla, on the occasion of the European day of the Prostática health, has assured that physical therapy accelerates the recovery process and minimizes the possible sequels after prostate interventions

Prostate problems to 15% of men at some point in his life. Approximately 80% of men over the age of 60 years has some difficulty urinating due to prostate growth.

In this sense, Alcantarilla has stressed that physical therapy is effective in the treatment of prostate diseases, both from the point of view preventive after surgery, avoiding and reducing the problems arising after the surgery.

Generally speaking, the benign pathology of prostate (prostatitis) doesn’t do sequels and physical therapist intervention is carried out with the aim of breaking the fibrosis, primarily using transverse Cyriax massage.

The main consequences appear after surgery and among them include urinary incontinence, impotence and urinary retention, because it damages the urethral sphincter and pelvic floor muscles.

Before surgery, physical therapy, as explained by the Secretary general of the Council, aims re-educate, mainly using cinesiterapia of pelvic floor and adaptation of habits of conduct exercises to accelerate the recovery of Continence and avoid that this problem will become chronic.

Once surpassed the intervention is advisable to carry out physiotherapy treatment in order to accelerate the recovery process and minimize the possible consequences. The intervention of the physiotherapist primarily focuses on lower abdominal effort, learning of mictional dynamics, reinforcement of specific muscles and awareness of such muscles.

To achieve these goals, according to sewer, physical therapy mainly uses exercises of empowerment of the muscles of the pelvic floor, prior assessment of the status of the diaphragm, pelvis, hipopresiva abdominal fitness exercises, electrotherapy and mictional calendar.

“ This type of physiotherapy intervention enjoys the support of the scientific evidence and its effectiveness is proven ”, the President of the CGCFE, José Antonio Martín Urrialde said. Physiotherapy sessions are completely painless and without any risk or side effect.

Currently, physical therapy is highly recommended for patients that will be submitted to this intervention, by various medical specialists which is carried out.

CGCFE

The General Council of physiotherapists schools of Spain (CGCFE) is the body that represents more than 40,000 physiotherapists, in Spain, dealing with the common goal of promoting the health of citizens. In addition, orders the profession, guardianship the interests of physiotherapy, as well as its optimal implementation and universalization.

Physiotherapists are health professionals, as foreseen in existing legislation, accredited with the University degree in physical therapy, taught at 43 universities and holders of knowledge and skills designed to benefit the health of the population. Furthermore, there is a greater number of doctorates and masters, to ensure their high qualification.

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Legalized from primary care intervention increases by 50% the chances of quit smoking in the long term.

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Legalized from primary care intervention increases by 50% the chances of quit smoking to long term.

the study ISTAPS 2.827-smoking 82 all Spain primary care centres participated in which reaffirmed the key role of primary care to help quit.

-the results have been published in the September issue of the journal Addiction, one of the most prestigious international journals in the field of addictions

-El ISTAPS has done in the framework of the redIAPP (network of preventive activities and health promotion) and has been coordinated from the University Institute of research in primary care IDIAP Jordi Gol

Spain, 2011-September although the vast majority of people know that smoking is harmful, although one-third of the adult population smokes. Many times people arises to quit when you already have a serious health problem. But studies have shown that the maximum benefit in both quantity and quality of life is obtained when before you stop smoking, preferably when there appeared no disease.

Primary care can play a key role in these stages. Indeed, during his lifetime people consult grounds several in the primary health care centre, some of them related to the consumption of tobacco and other, mostly, no.

At this point, the question was: are effective interventions in people who have been consulted for other reasons and that they do not ask for help specific to quit smoking? The ISTAPS study shows that Yes, 75% of the persons included in the study not raised in the near future tobacco cessation and the intervention of the family doctor and nurse has helped equally to those who wanted to leave immediately as to not raised it.

Different at different times interventions

The study relies on differentiating those who want to quit smoking in the near future and which not, and to apply different interventions. The person not so raised must reconsider the role of tobacco in his life, the pros and cons that he has for her tobacco cessation and has to find its own reasons.

The person who already wants to quit smoking need concrete strategies in some cases a drug. While intervention varies, the final results are similar in both cases (if we take into account other factors such as the dependence on nicotine, the age, or having a partner who smokes).

Young, with associated pathology people

The profile of people who have participated in the study is very similar to the usual Spain smoker (according to population health surveys show us). Their average age around 43 years, they have started smoking at age 16 and 80 per cent of social class medium and low and they are mostly sedentary. The study has been that, despite his age, 44% already declare having health problems associated with tobacco, although occasionally they have not consulted by the health problems either not associate them with smoking.

what is more relates to the success of smoking cessation?

In addition to having received the intervention of the doctor I nurse, which has been most associated with success is therefore the fact that the couple smoke, nicotine dependence, the number of cigarettes that they smoke every day and age of the person (when bigger is more likely to quit smoking.)

The intervention of the family physician and/or nurse according to the study protocol increases the chances of quitting successfully, long-term 50%. However, quitting is difficult and time-consuming, and only 8 per cent succeeds in a stable manner (more than one year) at the end of follow-up. It should be recalled here that these are people who in most cases not raised quit.

What are the main strengths of the study ISTAPS?

The fact that has been studied more than 2,800 smokers, most of them not consulted to quit smoking. The fact that there is no wait for people to see: If the intervention suits the moment is the smoker can help before that, for pathology or other similar reasons, ask for help.

The large number of centres and the health professionals involved (82 centres, 172 professional, 13 autonomous communities), showing that the intervention can be done in many circumstances and environments.

The long period of follow-up, 2 years, double that of the majority of published studies.

The ISTAPS is part of a series of studies carried out by the network of preventive activities and health promotion (redIAPP) financed by the Fund for health research and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III and has been coordinated since IDIAP Jordi Gol.

what the IDIAP?

The Foundation Jordi Gol i Gurina was created in 1996 by the Catalan Health Institute, with the aim of promoting and managing innovation, training, teaching and research clinical, epidemiological and health services in the field of primary health care.

In 2006, he became the Institute for research in primary care Jordi Gol (IDIAP Jordi Gol), through the signing of an economic agreement with the Department of health and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

From 2010 it is attached to the UAB as a University Institute of research in primary care.

The IDIAP works to make available to researchers the means and services that enable them to improve the development of their research; accredits, also ensures the projects and the process of research., promotes cooperation with other national and international research organizations, and participates in initiatives public or private establishment of innovative platforms for management or research in the field of primary care.

From August 2011 has the quality certification ISO 9001: 2008 for its support and advisory activities to project of research

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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