Month: September 2011

The Association Parkinson Madrid brings together the most affected patients with youth volunteers in an excursion to the sierra.

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The Association Parkinson Madrid brings together most affected patients with youth volunteers in an excursion to the sierra

– will take place next Saturday, September 17, where some thirty affected párkinson will visit the natural pools of Rascafría and the monastery of El Paular, aided by several volunteers from the young man Madrid Rotaract Club

– is a pioneering initiative with people affected by párkinson with mobility problems

Madrid, 2011-September the Association Parkinson Madrid has organized for next Saturday, September 17, an intergenerational encounter between párkinson patients affected with a group of young volunteers belonging to the Club Rotaract Madrid young. The activity will consist of a trip to the monastery of Santamaría de El Paular, a visit to the natural pools of Rascafría and a typical meal at a restaurant in Torrelaguna. Several young people, aged between 25 and 30 years, will help to move, will exchange experiences and share this fun day with nearly of some thirty affected párkinson, 65, who are more advanced this neurodegenerative disease in phaseswith mobility problems or in a wheelchair.

This first experience of leisure, pioneer in Spain, aims to ensure that persons with párkinson in the later stages of the disease have the opportunity to enjoy an excursion with young volunteers. The beneficiaries of this activity are very isolated people generally and are in a situation of loneliness in their homes for months. Such activities are often organized with collective more young people, who have a condition of permanent disability and who have internalized the wheelchair as essential tool in your life. For the affected párkinson, these problems of movement are sign of despair, because that is a sign of the continued progression of the disease that are.

To sociación Parkinson Madrid

La Association Parkinson Madrid is a non-profit entity, declared of public utility by the Ministry of the Interior, established to meet, Orient, train and inform people about Parkinson’s disease, their families and/or caregivers, professionals and society in general. Currently it has over 1,500 members and 100 volunteers. Services and therapies offered include: physiotherapy, speech therapy, massage, rehabilitation in swimming-pool, social care, health guidance, psychological care, music therapy, organization of self-help groups, organization of medical conferences, training professionals, carers and people in general, support for studies and research, and celebrations of leisure and free time activities.

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The University Hospital of Getafe includes telemedicine research in geriatrics.

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The University Hospital of Getafe includes telemedicine for research in geriatric

Heart failure is the second leading cause of admission.

-Are expected to participate some 130 elderly

-the speed of progress or blood pressure are some of the variables that are measured

Spain, 2011-September the University Hospital of Getafe, belonging to the public network of hospitals in Madrid, has initiated a research project in which the patients themselves participate actively through telemedicine. Led by geriatric service, the objective of the study is to assess the usefulness of some of the clinical and functional markers, and determine the efficiency and effectiveness of such monitoring to improve the control and monitoring of elderly patients with heart failure.

This disease is currently the second leading cause of hospital admission in the elderly, only in 2010 was attended at the University Hospital of Getafe 111 patients over 80 years.

To carry out this project have been distributed among the patients involved twelve aircraft of telemedicine are connected via bluetooth to a mobile phone, so that they themselves are responsible for measuring 48 hourly certain variables such as blood glucose, blood pressure and oxygen saturationan electrocardiogram, respiratory rate, the speed of progress, the time it takes to get out of a Chair, weight, and temperature.

In addition, they respond to a simple questionnaire that assesses basic aspects about their State of health and evolution. The mobile phone collects the information and it is stored in a computer program, so that the doctor consulted daily results via online and if you find any noticeable alteration, depending on the seriousness of this contact by telephone with the patient or comes to visit him immediately.

This allows also have a very accurate and complete history on the evolution of the patient and the usefulness of long-term treatment, which in addition will allow assessing whether there is any indicator that stand out above the rest and a good clinical marker.

Since its launch in March, a year ago has already involved 40 patients and he is expected to pick up information of 130 patients. Despite the age of patients and the need for in many cases with the collaboration of their caregivers, the devices have a simple and intuitive design and participants receive prior training.

Interhospitalaria collaboration

Telemedicine – assistance medical distance through the use of computer or telephone – is becoming increasingly frequent and is useful especially in elderly patients with mobility difficulties then avoid their displacement to the health centre and speeds up the treatment and control of their disease.

Several studies already confirmed its usefulness in terms of efficiency, reduction of hospital stay and decrease of the consultations, which is a synonym for a good clinical evolution.

Currently the University Hospital of Getafe has an area of multi-disciplinary telemedicine involving services of Radiology, dermatology, geriatrics, orthopedic surgery and radiology. connected specifically with the Virgin Poveda Hospital, this unit has done over the past seven months 202 consultations, which has avoided the transfer of the patient and a faster solution to their health problem, being also the first unit of telemedicine through the standard of quality ISO 9001-2008 certified

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The community starts delivery of informative health bill.

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The community begins delivery of informative health bill.

Lasquetty has informed the professional bodies before implementing this strategy strictly informative.

-Madrid joins other autonomies to involve the population in the knowledge of health expenditure

-La Paz will issue the first document, which will be in a patient treated in largest ambulatory surgery

Madrid, 2011-September the Ministry of health of the Madrid will begin to distribute today 14 September informative health bill to patients who are treated in Major outpatient surgery at the Hospital Universitario La Paz, as reported by the Health Minister, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty.

As of today will be progressively delivered to all patients surgery more ambulatory of the Hospital La Paz, and subsequently, as of October, will be given to patients who also come to largest ambulatory surgery (CMA) in Santa Cristina, Prince of Asturias, Niño Jesús hospitalOctober 12, Getafe and Móstoles. In December, is provided for delivery at the time of discharge from the first informative invoice for hospitalization in La Paz and, at the end of that same month, extends the invoice by CMA in the rest of the Madrid public hospitals.

In the first half of 2012, will be effective the delivery of this document to the rest of the network of public hospitals inpatients. In addition, in March 2012, it will begin sending, in this case by mail, the first informative invoices by the use of hospital emergency and primary care during 2011. It’s a consignment addressed to those patients who have used the services of primary more than five times a year (EU average attendance rate) and emergency services.

Informative health bill for hospitalization will consist of the breakdown of the expenditure of several concepts: stay in plant, expenses of pharmacy, laboratory and diagnostic tests. For the calculation of the costs are based on the analytical accounting of the SERMAS and costs will common to all hospitals.

The sole purpose of this measure is to inform the people of Madrid the cost posed health benefits who receive and always cover through taxes paid by all citizens. The paper clearly show that it is an informative invoice.

Guide to information to the high

Informative health bill is an initiative whose basic lines were drawn in the meeting of the plenary session of the Council Interterritorial of the national health system held on March 18, 2010, between the autonomous communities and the Ministry of health, and which have already joined other autonomies as Andalusia and Valencia.

The community of Madrid wants to stress that the measure is strictly informative and that in any case it will be the collection of any amount of money for health services rendered. Users who receive this informative invoice will receive an explanatory text that will be placed on the strictly informational aim of the paper.

In cases of hospital processes and largest ambulatory surgery, the informative invoice will be included in the folder “ Guide information to the high ”, who received the patient at the time of hospital discharge.

Health Minister Javier Fernández-Lasquetty has had several meetings with representatives of the College of physicians of Madrid, of Nursing College, Madrid, of the College of pharmacists; Attention of primary, Somamfyc, Semergen and Semg societies; the Superior Council of health, the General Alliance of patients, the Federation of associations scientific medical Spanish (FACME), as well as with representatives of the main unions of health to report on this project and the views of each of these professionals. Are also planned meetings this week with the Madrid Federation of municipalities and with the Council of consumption of the community of Madrid.

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The ALTTO study new information.

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New study ALTTO. information

Madrid, 2011-September interim analysis planned the data from the study of phase III ALTTO, comparing four arms of adjuvant lapatinib, (Tyverb ®), trastuzumab, or a combination of both (of either sequential or concurrent) in patients with early breast cancer compounds ErbB2 positiveIt has given rise to a change in the development of the study. The independent data monitoring Committee has recommended that three of the arms of the study will continue as planned. However the Committee pointed out that it is unlikely that lapatinib monotherapy arm meets the necessary criteria to show non-inferiority with the arm of trastuzumab in monotherapy with regard to the objective of disease-free survival. According to this finding patients belonging to the treatment with lapatinib monotherapy arm will prevent such treatment and consult your treatment options with your doctor responsible for the study. The recruitment of this study has been completed and the three remaining arms continue as planned.

The use of lapatinib in the adjuvant setting is not approved in any country in the world.

About the ALTTO study

ALTTO (Adjuvant Lapatinib and/or Trastuzumab Treatment Optimization trial;) (NCT00490139) is a study of phase III multicenter, randomized and open he studied adjuvant therapy with lapatinib, trastuzumab, or a combination of both (of either sequential or concurrent) in patients with cancer of early breast ErbB2 positive. Patients were randomized to receive lapatinib, trastuzumab, followed by lapatinib trastuzumab or lapatinib and trastuzumab combination. The main analysis of the study will assess the possible superiority between the arms of the combination and monotherapy with trastuzumab for disease-free survival.

The ALTTO study have randomized more than 8,000 patients in approximately 1,500 research centers distributed in 44 countries. Recruitment of patients began in June 2007 and finished in 2011.

The ALTTO study is led by two relevant academic groups — BIG (Breast International Group) and NCCTG (North Central Cancer Treatment Group) in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline.

About adjuvant therapy

Adjuvant therapy is the additional treatment after primary treatment and surgical resection in order to reduce the risk of cancer can recur. Such therapy may include chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormone therapy and/or targeted or biological therapies.

On lapatinib (Tyverb) ®

Lapatinib is approved in the context of metastatic in 107 countries including USA, Europe, Australia, India, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, Korea of the South among others.

In Europe, lapatinib is approved in combination with an aromatase inhibitor (AI) is indicated for the treatment of female posmenopaúsicas with breast cancer with receptor ErbB2 positive and positive Hormone receptors for which chemotherapy is not indicated. Also approved, in combination with capecitabine for the treatment of patients with metastatic disease and receiving positive ErbB2 have been previously treated with antracuclinas, taxanes and trastuzumab.

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InterSystems Iberia sponsors the contest of ideas for improving health, convened by TICBioMed in the region of Murcia.

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InterSystems Iberia sponsors the contest of ideas for improving health, convened by TICBioMed in the region of Murcia.

the contest has received 150 proposals, from professionals and students of the socio-sanitary field.

Madrid, September of 2011. InterSystems Iberia sponsors the contest of ideas of ICT health in the region of Murcia, organised by the TICSalud Association, in the region of Murcia, “ TICBioMed ”.

This edition has received more than 150 proposals, aimed at the needs and opportunities for improvement in the area of health, through the use of ICT.

On September 21, at 12: 00 and the Archaeological Museum of Murcia, held the award ceremony, endowed with 3.000€ the first; £ 1,000 of the second and six second prize of € 500. InterSystems Iberia will present one of these awards, reaffirming its traditional support to the developers of the ICT for health-oriented solutions.

about InterSystems

InterSystems Corporation is the world leader in innovative solutions for the networked health. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 23 countries, InterSystems provides advanced technology to cutting-edge applications.

InterSystems Ensemble ® is a seamless integration and hot-pluggable application development platform. InterSystems cache ® is a database, high performance objects, that allows applications to be faster and more scalable. InterSystems HealthShare ™ is a strategic platform for Health Informatics and the creation of the electronic medical history at regional and national levels. InterSystems DeepSee ™ is a software that makes it possible to embed real-time Business Intelligence capabilities in transactional applications.

InterSystems is the No. 1 of databases and applications for health integration technologies. InterSystems products are used in thousands of hospitals and laboratories worldwide, including 17 hospitals Honor Roll of America ’ s Best Hospitals, according to the classification of U.S. News & World Report.
Cache can be requested or downloaded through the InterSystems website, where a free, fully functional version is available and duration unlimited.

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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