Month: October 2011

The University of Santiago and ESTEVE in the discovery of new drugs.

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The University of Santiago and ESTEVE in the discovery of new medicines.

created one of the first initiatives for joint research in pharmaceutical r & d campus Spaniards.

-The building Emprendia of Campus life, welcomes the laboratory where a highly qualified team held pharmacological evaluation in vitro of therapeutic agents new potential

-the public-private partnerships between highly innovative firms such as ESTEVE and centres of excellence, as the USC BioFarma group, emerge as one of the keys to accelerate drug development

– with this model of alliances ESTEVE aims to optimize their r & d, at the same time that you want to contribute and promote scientific and research vocations among young Spanish people

Santiago de Compostela, 2011-October the Minister of health, Pilar Farjas has attended last Monday the presentation of the Centre, accompanied by Juan José Casares Long, Rector USC, Mabel LozaCoordinator of the Group BioFarma and Antoni Esteve, President of ESTEVE. In the Act have also been present Director General of research, development and innovation of the Xunta, Ricardo Chapel, and other authorities, who have done a tour the facilities.

The collaboration between ESTEVE and the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) has materialized through the creation of a laboratory for the discovery of new drugs which is incorporated for the first time in Galicia a public-private collaboration system based on the model of open innovation. This unit is dedicated to the development and implementation of automated methods for determination of in Vitro pharmacological activity of potential active ingredients. After 12 months of successful journey, composite, this unit is linked, in Galicia, with the network of r & d pharmaceutical comprising groups of its three universities in three hospital foundations as well as the Instituto Carlos III COMBIOMED network.

ESTEVE has chosen the USC by their high scientific level, their experience in pharmaceutical research, the excellence and the professional competence of its team (formed mostly by young researchers, with training at the level of doctorate) and depositing high expectations of success in the development of new medicines in this project. This joint research project is situated in an environment of multidisciplinary knowledge generation biomedical, focused on new mechanisms of action, to identify new active molecules within the field of pain (main line of investigation of ESTEVE).

“ Our responsibility also involves encouraging research vocation in our young people. Since ESTEVE and the USC we intend to promote a new future for young people, especially for those who have shown interest in science and technology. We can not miss this opportunity to ” has commented Dr. Antoni Esteve, President of ESTEVE.

Integrated in the Campus life of Santiago de Compostela, specifically in the Emprendia building, the joint unit established by ESTEVE and the USC goes beyond the classical of enterprise-University partnership concept that not only integrates the objectives of the r & d projects, but also facilities and researchersfacilitating a greater interrelationship and fluidity in the development of new pharmaceutical projects. According to Antoni Esteve, “ the objective of this type of Alliance is to create a new model of r & d network where excellence, as it is the case of the USC, is the main hallmark, guaranteeing the highest scientific and technological level for our projects ”.

Mixed research units: the amount of talent as an engine to accelerate results in research

The process of r & d of new drugs is a costly and complex process involving a wide range of scientific disciplines that in recent years, have undergone major advances, many of them facilitated by new technologies.

The need to remove barriers among different scientific disciplines, both groups more interested in basic research (generally in the public sector) and those more oriented to the development of new drugs (mainly from the private sphere), has promoted ESTEVE in the establishment of collaboration agreements that allow to share the knowledge of all the actors involved at different stages of the process r & d.

Examples of these partnership agreements, are so-called mixed research units between businesses and public facilities, in which research personnel hired by the academic Center develops research projects of the company, in laboratories located in the Centre of academic and equipped by the company. The aim is to incorporate the maximum talent to business projects, having access to large installations that a company alone cannot be allowed.

In the case of ESTEVE, has two mixed units underway: ESTEVE-USC in a laboratory of the building Emprendia of the University of Santiago de Compostela, and ESTEVE-ICIQ located in the Catalan Institute for chemical research of Tarragona. Likewise, ESTEVE has a chemical laboratory and another of Pharmacology in the Parc Científic de Barcelona.

All these initiatives, consolidate a model of r & d network that ESTEVE started a few years ago and who have an active policy of partnerships with universities, public research centres, technology based companies and other companies of the sector as a central axis.

About ESTEVE

ESTEVE is a leading pharmaceutical group in Spain and with a significant international presence. Since its founding in 1929, maintains a strong commitment to excellence, devoting all its efforts to promote health and improve the quality of life of people. ESTEVE research constitutes their main hallmark and boasts a portfolio of highly innovative projects whose final purpose is to provide answers to medical needs not covered properly.

In the field of public-private collaborative research, ESTEVE is a pioneer in Spain, highlighting the project HIVACAT, a joint initiative of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, with the participation of the Fundación La Caixa and the departments of health, economy and knowledge of the Generalitat de Catalunyapursued the development of vaccines prophylactic and/or therapeutic for HIV. At the same time, collaboration with the CBATEG of the Autonomous University of Barcelona in the draft Sanfilippo, pursues the development of a gene therapy for the treatment of the Sanfilippo syndrome.

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Centralcardiovascular.com, now on Twitter.

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Centralcardiovascular.com, now on Twitter.


-Ecardiovascular is the name of the profile of Centralcardiovascular.com

-the website addressed to professionals of the cardiovascular area integrates a Twitter channel which will allow a more fluid communication with users

Spain, 2011-October in order to exploit the potential of the Internet and to inform the greatest number of users possibleCentralcardiovascular.com joins the social network Twitter with an account corporate (Ecardiovascular is the name of the profile), where his followers may be abreast of all the current generated in the cardiovascular area as well as information about citations of the most important congresses in the cardiovascular area.

Twitter offers the possibility of establishing a direct and real time dialogue both with the users of the web media, professionals in the health field who do not know centralcardiovascular.com, associations of patients and professionals, and different groups of interest.

Other bets of the portal for the communication 2.0 is the incorporation of the concept of blog to the new interface of the web. To this end, keeps track of those more interesting blogs dealing with the area of cardiovascular, making them visible from Centralcardiovascular.com, prior selection of blogs which may be of greater interest.

Follow us on Twitter for our profile: Ecardiovascular or from the own web centralcardiovascular.

Centralcardiovascular.com

Centralcardio.com, the site for cardiologists Lacer, happened to be called Centralcardiovascular.com. The change of name of the Web site responds to the need to bring together all the professionals that it is now directed, specialists in cardiology, internal medicine, Angiology and Vascular Surgery, and primary care, etc.

The web, look and renewed content, offers information and most comprehensive resources for health professionals. Among the novelties of the new project, emphasizes the expansion of bibliographic services, which include new journals and new Congress. There is also a room for new Journal Review Service search tools, such as the power value and select the articles that have been better received, and the ability to comment on them.

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Dénia Hospital collects in Madrid, for the first time, the innovation award in SIMO Network e health.

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The Hospital of Dénia collects in Madrid, for the first time the award for innovation in e-health of SIMO Network.

Dénia hospital is the Spanish with major integrations in the history of the patient

Madrid, October 2011.- the Manager of the Department of health of Dénia, Ángel Giménez, has picked up in the early hours of Tuesday in Madrid, and for the first time, the first prize which convenes in the aparatado of e-health SIMO Network, the international fair of services and ICT solutions for companies.

The Act has taken place at 15: 00 in Hall 7 of the fairground madrileño. Ángel Giménez, accompanied by the director of systems and information technologies, Vicent Moncho, has thanked the support given by the Ministry of health of the Generalitat Valenciana, the shareholders of Navy healthDKV Insurance Bank health, systems and information technology Directorate and, of course, more than 1,200 professionals working in the Department of health of Dénia.

“The project of the hospital of Dénia, “ history electronics integrated in 14 months” has been the most voted among the 9 finalists.

A selection Committee composed of professionals specialized in health and ICT media: Diario Médico, Ariadna (World), Ciberpaís (El País), Computing Spain and Computerworld, selected nine projects from the submitted 47 passed to the second phase to be submitted to a vote on open line.

The votes cast between 1 to 23 September have finally been those who have chosen the winning project: the one presented by the Hospital of Dénia.

The aim of the prize for innovation in e-health is to contribute to a wider dissemination of the main technological advances that occur in the field of health in Spain and the consequent benefit to the patient.

Most comprehensive Spain electronic medical history

Electronic medical history of the Hospital of Dénia is one of the most complex and complete Spain by the large number of features and its information system integrations Cerner Millennium .

With the election of this information system, more than two years ago, Dénia hospital opted to become a hospital without papers. The last may already got so far not reached any Spanish health centre: a level 6 on 7 of the HIMMS .

The HIMMS is an American company non-profit which is responsible for assessing the degree of development of electronic support for all the processes involved in clinical practice.

Denia now has become the European benchmark for the US firm Cerner. In addition to Dénia, other Spanish hospitals have chosen this system: the Hospital Universitario are Espases in Palma de Mallorca, where it is already implemented, and the new Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias.

Main benefits for the patient

Clinical information is accessible online in any job from all points of the health care network.

Processes such as medication are also controlled by the information system, so that it can detect allergies or drug interactions.

Interaction between primary and specialized processes are optimized with the possibility to apply for and view any additional test that is performed in the hospital.

model Alzira

Denia hospital is a public centre of privately managed, under the parameters of what has come to be called “ Valencian model or model Alzira ”.

It is a public-private partnership model promoted by the Generalitat Valenciana has established itself as a mode of comprehensive health, agile, efficient and effective management, focused on the needs of citizens and in which the professional acquires a maximum ownership role. All this has resulted in excellent care results with high levels of satisfaction of users.

The positive experience has become the model paradigm of a new form of health management that is being introduced with the construction of other centers and continues to be studied with interest by national and international bodies and institutions.

Hospitals of La Ribera, Torrevieja, Denia, Manises and Vinalopó in the Valencian Community and the community of Madrid hospitals of Valdemoro, Torrejón and the future centres of Móstoles and Collado Villalba, and the Central clinical laboratory, are managed under the formula of an administrative concession with payment capitativo.

Control of health provision is funded by the Administration and the initial investment and provision of material and human resources, as well as the financial risk is transferred to companies concessionaires.

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The parents of school Edith Stein: specialists in coaching and mentoring.

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Parents school Edith Stein: specialists in coaching and mentoring.

Spain, 2011-October the College Edith Stein, educational center for new creation, and that it began in September of 2009, located in the neighborhood of Orcasitas, incorporates this year a great novelty in its range of training for parents: the collaboration and implementation of a coaching-mentoring with the enterprise project liberates your talent.

The application of innovative teaching methods, educational excellence and a strong involvement of families in the life of the Center are the pillars on which to build the educational project of the Edith Stein school, belonging to Chesterton Education Foundation, which has another Center, College Chesterton in the corridor Henares (Meco).

This innovation and continuous improvement has resulted over the two previous courses involving more than 30 speakers of renown with the delivery of lectures for parents and teachers. Attendees include the presence of José Ramón Ayllón, writer and University Professor; José María Contreras, an expert in human relations; Amando de Miguel, sociologist; Juan Manuel de Prada, journalist and writer; José Ballesteros, Executive coach; Alfred Sonnenfeld, Doctor in medicine and theology; Benigno Blanco, President of the Forum of the family, Rafaela Santos, Médico-Psiquiatra and a long etcetera.

For this school year, the school presents the signing of a cooperation agreement with the company releases your talent in the Organization of a course of Coaching for parents and teachers of the school.

Edith Stein school based on the conviction that we must not only develop intelligence but must also educate the heart and strengthen the will. That is why, together with the enterprise frees your talent is going to organize school EI (emotional intelligence) for parents and students. This school of coaching and mentoring will train parents on knowledge, development and practice of the different dimensions that make up the human person: rational, transcendent, emotional, practical and creative. It is a gamble determined to find the vital harmony between all of these areas with special emphasis on the development of creativity and emotional competencies, generally most neglected aspects of educational patterns that we know.

Knowing the own emotions and those of others will facilitate the coexistence in the family, power the full development of children, and aim them at the discovery of their strengths and talents.

That is why it is every day more pressing to cover this formative dimension through seminars and workshops that enrich our educational work. Throughout eight Saturday taught the course in the morning. Edith Stein is a new school, created to provide quality education to all the families of the southern fringe of Madrid and intends to dream big, which is the best way to have a future.

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Mobile Service acquires two companies of hospital services in Chile.

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Field service acquires two companies of hospital services in Chile

-service Mobile strengthens its internalization through the purchase of societies QuickBox S.A. and Archives Express S.A.

A Coruña, 2011-October Mobile service, Galician origin and company leader in the sector of hospital services, strengthens its presence in Latin America through the acquisition of two companies, QuickBox S.A. and Archives Express S.A., specialized in the management of archives, digitization and logistics in Chile.

With these new acquisitions, service Mobile strengthens its presence in the Chilean market, which will serve as a platform for the company to deal with its expansion in other countries of this continent.

The agreement reached with QuickBox S.A. and Archives Express S.A. societies allow service Mobile Chile S.A. to achieve a leading position in management, custody, and digitization of documentation in the Chilean market. The objectives of the company passed to consolidate its business in the Latin American continent, but without discarding open new Windows in European markets.

Mobile service is in a phase of growing and studying various expansion options, either through the opening of new offices or through corporate transactions, if these meet their business goals.

Currently, field service is the leading company in Spain in hospital management, custody, and digitization of medical records services; sector in which manages about 90% of the market. In the past year, field service has increased its turnover by more than 25% and its workforce by 20% in relation to the same period of the previous year.

Mobile service

Mobile service is the leading company in the sector of hospital services, including hospital logistics and organization, management, custody and digitization of archives clinical, with more than 22 million of medical histories guarded in its custody centres. In addition, it operates in the areas of logistics, consulting, and large transfers out of the health sector. Mobile service has a presence throughout the national territory through 63 workplaces and 37 own custody centres and has 850 employees.

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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