Month: November 2011

European scientists tested a robot to operate brain more accurately

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Brussels, 28 nov (EFE).-A group of German researchers Italian, British and Israeli has been developed with funds from the European Union (EU) a robot capable of operating the brain more accurately than the human hand whose first tests in mannequins have been overcome with success.

Project Robocast, which benefited from funds from the seventh programme framework of the EU’s research has made it possible to develop a new type of robot that enables doctors to make thirteen types of movement against the four who dominate human brain surgery hands little invasive, it highlighted the EC said in a statement on the occasion of the European Robotics week

In addition, the robot enables surgeons to assess tissue and control the intensity of the pressure applied during the operation.

Machine has surpassed his first essays of endoscopic neurosurgery – through a tiny hole in the skull – practiced mannequins, and once you are ready to speak to people, you can help the millions of European patients suffering tumors, epilepsy, or diseases of Parkinson, Gilles or Tourette, said the Commission.

This type of surgery may be performed more easily be ten times more stable than the human pulse robots.

The EC recalled that parallel investigations through the project have begun Active, also financed by European funds, to use robots in brain operations that require that the patient is conscious.

According to EU data, in 2012 the world demand for robots and related products represented 15,500 million euros ($ 3 billion in Europe).

Through the seventh EU research framework programme, the Commission has allocated about EUR 400 million to one hundred projects focused on the development of robots.

Robocast project, which began in 2008, has become their first fruits with satisfactory test dummies in 2011, in both the project Active, which began in April of this year, will have a duration of four years and will have a total budget of 7.62 million euros, of which the Commission has provided 5,77 million. EFE

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AIDS back in Brazil, but still there are 630,000 sick

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Brasilia, 28 nov (EFE).-the rate of mortality due to AIDS in Brazil fell from 7.6 to 6.3 people for each 100,000 patients between 1998 and 2010, but the country still exist 630,000 carriers of the virus causing this evil, said today the Ministry of health.

Statistics was presented by the holder of that portfolio, Alexandre Padilha, who warned that, while the incidence of AIDS in the country is lower, in recent years there has been an increase, not pointed out cases in gay men aged between 15 and 24 years.

Also have increased the cases in women of 13 to 19 years, that is placed in 137 to end of el year last and by first time exceeded in that segment to Al number of men sick of AIDS.

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“These data call much attention and concern,” said the Minister, who stressed that the total number of patients remains almost stagnant for about four years.

As was the case with the mortality rate, Padilha stressed that between 1998 and 2010 there was also a significant reduction in the number of cases of children infected AIDS by their own mothers during pregnancy.

Data presented today also say that in 2010 the AIDS caused 11.965 deaths in Brazil, country in which the disease has killed 241.500 people since 1980. EFE

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The ICS breaks the negotiation with the unions after exhausting the time

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BARCELONA, 28 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Catalan Health Institute (ICS) has been finalized negotiations with health care unions of the sectoral table – medical in Catalonia (MC), CC.OO, UGT, SATSE and CATAC – considering that “it is over time” to achieve an agreement that might be effective this year.

“It has not been possible to reached majority to facilitate a closure balanced in the financial year 2011”, it has been claimed Monday the ICS through a press release, in reference to the impossibility of “material time” of a consensus to cut the salary of the sanitary 40,000 comprising the network public health.

In addition, the ICS has warned that it would take “the measures strictly necessary to comply with the budgetary allocation” until the end of the year, adding that he will do with the desire to influence the minimum possible in health care activity and the overall volume of the template.

Onwards, the health of the ICS workers will undergo negotiations opened so far in the sectoral table for negotiation of health step, from November 30, the Bureau General of negotiation of the role public of the Generalitat, where the working conditions for staff members will be negotiated and statutory next year.

The latest proposal of the ICS was going through the reduction of 25% of payroll Christmas extra, rather than 50% of the initial forecast, but the absence of guarantees in writing that there would be no dismissal of interim template nor new salary next year cuts has prevented the signing of the agreements, according to the unions.

In a hearing prior to the breakdown of the negotiation, the Minister of health of the Generalitat, Boi Ruiz, pointed out that an absence of agreement would work managers to prevent a budget deviation next year, and urged the necessity of a Covenant.

Health of the agreed cuts ELUDIRÁN new

However, ensured that the health of the agreed that have already made an effort to pay this year – with agreements at its centres – will not suffer a new crop next year, so it shall be exempt from the negotiations carried out in the table of function public.

El ICS approved in may, a reduction of 9.6 per cent of its budget on the end of the previous year, despite the rejection of UGT, doctors of Catalonia (MC), the Association of municipalities of Catalonia and the abstention of CC.OO, and at the end of September announced its willingness to cut 45 million euros in personnel and salaries.

The ICS, which manages eight major hospitals and 450 primary care (CAP), intended to thus reduce by up to EUR 75 million budget.

Since late September, unions and ICS have met on several occasions in the sectoral table, and then there have been bilateral with the different representatives contacts

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Pharmaceutical support “locks” health card which prevent that patients receive treatment

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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 28 (EUROPA PRESS)

One of the vowels of the College of pharmacists of A Coruña, Pilar Martínez de la Riva, has admitted Monday that there are “locks” in “some” health, cards that prevent that it can dispense the treatment of these patients.

Asked by journalists after the signing of an agreement with several associations of patients, the pharmaceutical has affected that “they came to light some errors” and “some people found that he could not dispense your medication”.

For these cases, as mentioned, “there is a contact telephone number” which has facilitated the Xunta so that “every person resolve their problem”. “I imagine that all will be resolved, I am convinced that the Administration will not leave anyone without his treatment has opined.

Said, had decided that those affected by this “block” will have to “talk with the Administration”, given that it is surely “an administrative problem”. “Something that was outside of your site or isn’t where it should be” has reflected Martínez of the Riva.

Thereon, told Europa Press, the delegate of the Association of Glaucoma of Galicia in A Coruña, Luis García, deemed “unacceptable” to happen, above all, no patients to be previously informed. “They hear in pharmacies or health centres and are defenceless”, has disapproved.

Payment of medicines

As regards the possibility of pensioners to pay part of their drugs based on their income, as they have proposed various positions of the PP, the pharmaceutical has indicated that this issue was not addressed in the governing bodies of the Association.

That Yes, “personally”, has opined that “something must be done” to promote the sustainability of the health system. “I don’t know what to do, but something”, has affected, in favour of reducing costs “in many other aspects of health life”.

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Galician pharmacists support “locks” health card which prevent that patients receive treatment

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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 28 (EUROPA PRESS)

One of the vowels of the College of pharmacists of A Coruña, Pilar Martínez de la Riva, has admitted Monday that there are “locks” in “some” health, cards that prevent that it can dispense the treatment of these patients.

Asked by journalists after the signing of an agreement with several associations of patients, the pharmaceutical has affected that “they came to light some errors” and “some people found that he could not dispense your medication”.

For these cases, as mentioned, “there is a contact telephone number” which has facilitated the Xunta so that “every person resolve their problem”. “I imagine that all will be resolved, I am convinced that the Administration will not leave anyone without his treatment has opined.

Said, had decided that those affected by this “block” will have to “talk with the Administration”, given that it is surely “an administrative problem”. “Something that was outside of your site or isn’t where it should be” has reflected Martínez of the Riva.

Thereon, told Europa Press, the delegate of the Association of Glaucoma of Galicia in A Coruña, Luis García, deemed “unacceptable” to happen, above all, no patients to be previously informed. “They hear in pharmacies or health centres and are defenceless”, has disapproved.

Payment of medicines

As regards the possibility of pensioners to pay part of their drugs based on their income, as they have proposed various positions of the PP, the pharmaceutical has indicated that this issue was not addressed in the governing bodies of the Association.

That Yes, “personally”, has opined that “something must be done” to promote the sustainability of the health system. “I don’t know what to do, but something”, has affected, in favour of reducing costs “in many other aspects of health life”.

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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