Month: September 2011

Mediformplus presents his Plan of continuous training for the 2011/12 academic year.

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Mediformplus presents his Plan of continuous training for the academic year 2011/12

training as a lever for change in the pharmacies

-the training plan is composed of three major modules: sales, training by categories and Up/Cross Selling techniques

-The objective of this plan is to provide attendees pharmacies with the necessary tools to improve the care and service in pharmacy

-source for “ these dynamic and participatory courses will help the Office of pharmacy to foster the growth of the over-the-counter ”

Madrid, 2011-September MediformplusSpanish leader in the management and marketing for the Office of pharmacy consulting, has prepared a training plan adapted to the needs and suggestions of its customers for the new year. These formations are directed to the Pharmacy staff and will be carried out throughout the Spanish.

For Luis de la Fuente, managing director, Mediformplus, “ these courses help the pharmacy Office to promote the growth of sales, the current situation that we are living is necessary to run the business towards the parapharmacy for stable profit ”

this training plan aims to provide and/or consolidate assistants pharmacies with the necessary tools to improve care and the pharmacy service, promote the dispensation activates of the various categories, increase productivity and profitability of the business, while preserving the excellence and the characteristics of the Spanish pharmacy.

Theme of courses

The continuing education of Mediformplus plan is divided into three main areas: sales techniques (1st and 2nd part), which will teach attendees as the needs of the customer – patient. Training by categories, will help them to recycle knowledge and improve the pharmaceutical Council and UP/Cross Selling, these techniques will get boost cross selling.

The courses are highly dynamic and participatory. Combines a theoretical part and a practical part, using role plays of sales, useful examples, workshops … in order to provide easily identifiable tools for attendees. In addition training workshops will be organized by groups of pharmacies based on geographic area.

This training plan begins in September with the first part of the sales techniques module. The first courses will be held in:

-September 19: Bilbao / San Sebastián
-September 20: Madrid
-September 27: Granada

About Mediformplus

Mediformplus is the Spanish leader in strategic management and marketing Office of pharmacy consulting, a which provides advice on key issues such as internal organization, marketing and sales, purchasing and stock management. Enjoying a human capital consultants extensive experience in the sector, and working for 10 years with more than 350 pharmacies of all Spain, with the aim of helping them day by day to differentiate them and prepare them to work effectively for a future of great changes.

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Infanta Cristina promotes the recovery of patients with breast cancer.

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The Infanta Cristina promotes the recovery of patients with breast cancer

presents an informative guide to deal with the disease.

Spain, 2011-September offer useful information to women and their families, help deal with the disease, ensure adaptation to everyday life and promote recovery. These are the objectives that the Hospital Universitario Infanta Cristina (HUIC) has set within your new guide to “Care basic para Pacientes con Cáncer de Mama”: an instrument of support against the most common problems among those affected.

The publication has 23 pages of practical advice to patients can be followed easily thanks to a design that promotes reading and understanding and in which graphics and illustrative photographs abound. The contents include a first explanation on breast cancer, the topicality of its multidisciplinary treatment and six keys that can help women to know when to seek medical advice.

Subsequently the guide focuses on the effects of medical treatments against this disease (accumulation of fluid or Lymphedema, decrease in leukocytes or leukopenia, anemia, aesthetic alterations …), describing its main features and changes that can cause physical and psychological.

Solutions to the problems

The guide makes a special emphasis on presenting solutions and alternatives to the more common problems in patients with breast cancer. Thus users will find detailed information for the prevention of infections, treatments and exercises against Lymphedema, how fix lack of appetite, control nausea them and vomiting and alleviate the alterations in the skin.

The document also analyzes the psychological difficulties of the disease and that can transform into the emergence of anxiety, depression, disruption of everyday life and other obstacles in personal and labour relations. Include two clear definitions about depression and anxiety, as well as explanations to know in which cases should be treated by a specialist.

The Guide has been done by the Maria doctors of the Noguero Rosario and Maria the Mar Muñoz, head of service and medical assistant of obstetrics and Gynecology, respectively, with the collaboration of the services of rehabilitation and Psychiatry at the own Hospital Infanta Cristina.

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The Spaniards complain the back pain in labour, above other diseases.

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The Spaniards complaining of back pain at work, over other diseases.

Spain, 2011-September according to a study on the impact of diseases of occupational origin in Spain, diseases which most complain the Spanish at work are, first of all back pain, badly affecting the 25 ’ 8% of men and 21.3 per cent of women. Followed closely the muscle pain with a 23.4% in men and 20% in women. After this, the pathology suffer most Spaniards working is overall fatigue, with 23% of males and 19.1 per cent of women. Work-related stress, suffering the 22.9 per cent of men and women 20.3 lies in fourth position.

Instead the pathologies that cause less occupational diseases are heart problems, making it a 2.6% of the time in men and 1.3 per cent of women. Allergies are the second of the less serious, causing work this disease at 3.9 per cent of males and 3.7 per cent of women, while other problems that tend to suffer from workers to perform their work are: anxiety, irritability, or sleep problems but in one much smaller proportion than back pain or muscle pain.

In the event that one of these diseases will cause serious anatomical or functional cuts that reduce or annul the working capacity of the worker, the person is entitled to a permanent disability pension. To achieve this it is essential to put in the hands of specialists. Cabinet technical medical legal is the only medical and legal Center of Spain specializes in pensions, social security and compensation, and has more than 35 years of experience in the processing of these pensions.

An assessment of medical initial, which is deemed damage and functional limitations, and at the same time, the degree of disability is set to claim, is the key to get rid of this evil.

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Declared void the award of the Basque OSATEK Telecare Service

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declared void the award of the Basque OSATEK Telecare Service

IGON lodged an appeal by serious irregularities body administrative resources contract of the Basque country that has declared null and void the award of the service and obliged to repeat the contest

Bilbao, 2011-September the administrative body of contractual resources of the autonomous community of Basque has declared void the award of the service from Teleassistance and center of attentiondoes public health awarded on 8 June by the public company OSATEK in favour of the joint venture formed by the Madrid company Televida and GSR (residential services management), cooperative management of residences belonging to the Mondragón group. The estimated budget of the contract amounts to EUR 5.6 million in the first year, to provide service from Teleassistance to 25,000 people in the Basque country.

With this resolution dated August 24, 2011, the owner of the administrative organ that gives reason to IGON special centre of employment, which lodged a special against this award to detect serious irregularities. IGON came to provide service from Teleassistance for Diputación Foral de Bizkaia since 2005 and had a contract in force until the year 2013.

The Special Center of employment IGON rose on June 24 a recourse to the award by the public company OSATEK from Teleassistance and health in the Basque country UTE Televida-GSR service by “ serious formal and substantive offences which should lead to the annulment of the award ”. In his letter, IGON manifiestaba as grounds for challenge, among others, the lack of capacity and solvency accredited by awarded, the lack of publicity and transparency in the assessment of the results and the inconsistency and lack of experience required for the members of the Committee of experts.

In his appeal, IGON alleged that there had been a series of infringements affecting general aspects of the procedure and the award, as well as to the documentation submitted by the successful tenderer to demonstrate their capacity and solvency and the evaluation of bids. Violations in the handling of the procedure and award are based on that award does not have mandatory motivation, while the members of the Committee of experts, who have appreciated the different proposals, not have been appointed formally, two of them are in a cause of incompatibility and lacking the required experience.

IGON raised the resource that was recorded with JCI award ceremony, processing the case of recruitment should be suspended until its resolution, and that should require is OSATEK to refrain from entering into the contract and from allow or instruct the UTE to carry out tasks for the implementation of the same.

However, on 30 June OSATEK informed IGON the decision hire urgent and provisionally interim service of tele-assistance to the joint venture formed by the Madrid company Televida and Guipuzcoa cooperative management of residential services (GSR) until the resolution of the special remedy or the lifting of the measures.

“ Such a decision constitutes a flagrant violation of article 315 of the LCSP, remain undisputed that OSATEK has been used with precipitation mechanism of the direct award to evade its obligation to suspend the processing of the contract and to allow the UTE to start the execution of a contract which is expressly forbidden ”, said Fidel Alvarez, managing director of IGON, who has introduced this provision an allegation about existing hiring.

Despite the above and in order to facilitate the continuity of the service users, IGON EEC ceded to OSATEK free telephone numbers on which hung over 12,000 users of the service, a company asset that the contest had not taken into account and thathave not been granted, would have forced to reschedule the 12,000 teams with the consequent risk for all users.

In the competition from Teleassistance submitted their proposals the companies Red Cross in the Basque country, telecare services, health services Eulen, IGON C.E.E and UTE formed by Televida services social and GSR, which were excluded the first two companies to not reach the minimum threshold of 25 points.

About IGON

In 1989, the IGON Association, which brings together people with physical and sensory disabilities in Biscay, decided that the best way to achieve the full integration of its partners was to have a job. With this objective, in 1990 he created the Special Center of employment of the same name, with activities in various areas. Since the year 2000, IGON works in activities from Teleassistance, and in 2002 began his activity as a technical service of the Diputación Foral de Bizkaia TeleAlarm, later since 2005 into the lending company from Teleassistance of such entity.

IGON boasts a high experience in this field. Until June 30 and for eleven years, IGON has provided service from Teleassistance in Bizkaia to a group of more than 13,000 people, with a high degree of user satisfaction, established at 98%, according to studies carried out by external consultants.

According to those responsible for IGON, resolution of the competition has not considered the nature of business of laboral insertion of the Association, while from the own Basque Government has urged the different departments that make it up to take account of the compromise adopted in the field of socio-labour insertionwith the aim that they always need to outsource services, hire them well with companies of socio-labour insertion, special centres of employment or within the framework of social employment.

IGON gave work to a group of 130 workers, composed of operators, technical mobile unit, supervisors, computer, administrative personnel, social workers, coordinators and management teams. In recent years has invested more than three million euros in tasks of training, technology, infrastructure…

Telecare Service is a health care and preventive benefit everyday situations or emergencies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. IGON has been dealing offer information, support and assistance through a comprehensive and personalised attention through the line of telephone and computer and communication equipment specific located at home and in the center of attention, supplemented by mobile units of direct and on-site assistance in situations of emergency personal and/or domestic and technical personnel for installation and maintenance of tele-assistance device.

During the year 2010, IGON EEC handled a total of 239.299 alarms, which represents an average of 19,36 per person user and year. Of these, 94.962 were alarms generated by the individual user. Within this classification are alarms by request of aid, with a total of 14.124, of which 5.993 were valued as urgent, and therefore transferred to the health or social emergency services. The pressing, 899 (0.38% of the total) were valued as vital urgency immediate, i.e. situations in which there is a vital risk to the individual user.

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One step more against diabetes

One step more against diabetes

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a step more against diabetes

UPM researchers develop a computational model to study the response of the immune system in diabetes type 1 and find treatments to remedy.

Madrid, 2011-September the definition of a computational model of the endocrine pancreas and the immune response can provide simulation tools that support the knowledge of the etiology of this pathology. performing experiments in a computer are predictable results a priori subsequently leading to experimentation in-vitro and in-vivo. In this way, you can speed up the search for possible therapeutic approaches.

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an attack by the immune system of the patient against the cells of the pancreas that produce insulin (beta cells). This autoimmune response causes the disappearance of beta cells and the consequent absence of insulin. Are still unknown causes which make the immune system to recognize these own cells as agents to destroy, but considered that they could relate with environmental agents (pollution, hygiene or viral infections) or genetic factors, there are genes related to immune system that predispose to type 1 diabetes and others covering their appearb.

schematic representation of interactions between the immune system and the beta cells of the pancreas are grouped in the islets of Langerhans.

between the “ errors ” committed by the immune system to attack cells beta are: improper activation of the innate immune system in the pancreas that results in swelling; the presence of lymphocytes with ability to recognize the beta cells as foreign agents; the activation of these cells through the presentation of antigens of the cébeta cells; the failure of the mechanisms of protection from reactions of the immune system against the body itself (called peripheral tolerance mechanisms).

As a result of the investigación1 made by the Group of Bioengineering and telemedicine of the ETSI telecommunication of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, in collaboration with the National Center for biotechnology, and after analyzing these “ bugs ”, has developed a multi-tier model, based on agents of the endocrine pancreas and its relationship with the immune system simulating the different stages in which It fails the immune system recognizing the beta cells as strange. The model allows to simulate processes in populations of cells growth beta, cell proliferation, apoptosis, necrosis, phagocytosis and activation of cells of the immune system, etc.

Data from scientific literature and empirical data from experiments with mice have been used to design and fit the model. The results obtained by experiments earlier, noting an good emulation of real processes have been compared. This model can be used to perform experiments in-silico on processes related to the beta cells and the innate immune system, and is a step for the development of more comprehensive models of immune response in type 1 diabetes.

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1 Martinez Espinosa IV, Gomez Aguilera EJ, Hernando Perez, Villares R, Mellado Garcia JM. Agent-Based Model of the Endocrine Pancreas and Interaction with Innate Immune System. ADVANCES IN BIOINFORMATICS. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (74): 157-164. 2010


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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