Month: November 2011

The Hospital of Sant Joan Despí Moisès Broggi, benchmark national in the radical treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis.

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The Hospital of Sant Joan Despí Moisès Broggi, benchmark national in the radical treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis.

-programme of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis in Catalonia (PCPC), endorsed by the Director Plan of Oncology has treated 250 patients, more than half in the Centre of Sant Joan Despí, with the Sugarbaker technique

-The number of patients is the largest in Spain and is among the more outstanding 8 internationally

Spain, November 2011- La Técnica Sugarbaker applies in the Hospital of Sant Joan Despí Moisès Broggi since its opening, and is indicated for the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis. The program of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis in Catalonia (PCPC), coordinated by Dr. Pedro Barrios, has treated 250 patients since its inception in 2006, and is backed by the Plan Director of Oncology.

This figure is the largest series of patients in the whole Spain and among the 8 most important international series. Peritoneal carcinomatosis originating in tumors of colon, rectum, Appendix, small intestine, stomach and ovary, corresponds to neoplastic disease stages, and are often associated with poor quality of life of patients and very limited in time survivals.

The figures of the practice of this technique are that a year of treatment, 90.9 per cent of patients live, and half of the patients live still after 44 months. The technique applied in patients with pseudomyxoma peritonal and peritoneal malignant mesothelioma has achieved the highest survivals of 75 per cent and 64 per cent respectively, after 6 years and live in carcinomatosis for colorectal origin, 42% of patients after 3 years of treatment.

Health agencies such as the NICE (United Kingdom), CËPO (Canada) and AATRM (Catalonia) recommended that given the technical complexity, the treatment only is carried out in specialized centres which attest to the expertise and capacity and to ensure a rigorous selection of patients, as well as a continuous assessment of results. Catalonia is one of the four regions containing this radical treatment of the carcinoamtosis in their national health plans. Currently, there are 11 centres as part of the group Spanish Peritoneal cancer surgery (GECOP) who practise technical d Sugarbaker in Spain

Sugarbaker technique

The technique of Sugarbaker, who receives the name of the first American surgeon who practiced, is a multidisciplinary treatment that currently offers the best clinical outcomes for patients with certain types of peritoneal carcinomatosis, propagation and extension of some malignant tumors, and thanks to this innovative technique that adds a unique surgical Act: radical surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy regional hyperthermia (application of intraperitoneal chemotherapy at 43 degrees), you get a therapeutic escalation which has proved highly effective in the treatment of selected groups of patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis.

The Hospital of Sant Joan Despí Moses Broggi is a center run by Consorci Sanitari Integral, a public entity, owned by the Catalan health service, the Catalan Institute of health, the municipalities of Sant Joan Despí and l ’ L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Consell Comarcal del Baix Llobregat and the Red Cross. It acts as a referral Center for the treatment of peritoneal carcinoamtosis for Catalonia and other autonomous communities of the Spanish State.

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Be The Match leverages NetApp technology to help save more lives.

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Be The Match leverages NetApp technology to help save more lives.

technology allows to Be The Match double the annual donor record number and expand global services to save lives.

Madrid, November 2011- The exponential growth offers a wealth of information that, if it is managed and analyzed efficiently, can produce innovations and discoveries that affect our world. Nowhere in it is truer that in the field of health, in which a correct data analysis can lead to new discoveries that change lives deeply in an instant. The key to disclose these data is the technology. Without it, it would not be possible many of the current medical advances that save lives. In short, technology saves lives.

To Be The Match ®, which has the largest list world potential marrow donors and cord blood units donated, the data is the life. Each year, thousands of patients suffering from diseases that put at risk their lives such as leukemia, lymphoma, or sickle cell disease needed a marrow transplant but do not have a compatible donor in their family. Directed by the nationwide non-profit marrow (National Marrow Donor Program ®, NMDP) donor, Be The Match helps connect these patients with donors. The organization realized that it needed a technological base to act as a trainer, not as a limitation to save more lives. For this reason, Be The Match based on NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP).

“The ability to make faster decisions and analyse information in real time has a direct impact on the lives of our patients, and makes our storage platform is a key element of our success,” says Michael Jones, Director of information of Be The Match. “With NetApp, we could accelerate largely the flow of data, which has enabled us to provide 50% more transplants around the world.” “NetApp has played a decisive role by helping us save more lives.”

To give access to patients to a record of more than 15 million donors and 400 000 units of blood from the umbilical cord, Be The Match provides every year thousands of transplants that may save lives. Transplant doctors seek Be The Match Registry ® by means of an application with a sophisticated algorithm of pairing that is 100 million times more complex than typing of blood programs. Since 2007, the number of transplants facilitated by year has increased progressively from 3700 to 5500. Be The Match has established the objective of facilitating 10 000 by the end of 2015. This aggressive growth, along with the great complexity and the volume of data, prompted the Organization to transform its existing infrastructure with NetApp ® as a fundamental part storage. To rely on NetApp, Be The Match could convert its technological environment into a catalyst for speed and flexibility to save lives.

NetApp helps Be The Match to extend the limits of the possible

As a result of its overall transformation program, Be The Match noted a number of advantages which allowed him to accelerate the process of detection, expanding its global reach and obtain more precise matches, which directly helped the Organization to save more lives.

Highlights:

-A recent suite of integrated applications, including the consolidation of the data of Be The Match on a platform of NetApp, has enabled the Organization reducing the time needed to perform a transplant by 15%. Given that many patients have disorders that can be developed very quickly, the opportunity to identify a donor and perform a transplant may be only months or even weeks. Reducing the time to perform a transplant helps patients to proceed faster in the transplant process and improves their chances of survival.

-Be The Match has doubled its annual donor record number to create a new portal of donor selection due to their shared technology based on NetApp infrastructure. The new portal helped to increase the annual number of donors, from an average of 360 records annual 000 in 2000 to about 850 000 in 2008 during the last two years. More likely donors are available to Be The Match, more likely to be find a match for a patient.

-NetApp can offer the performance and bandwidth needed by Be The Match to complete complex analysis quickly and to perform a number of simultaneous searches of algorithm of matching 10 times greater than with your storage system previous. The result helps to improve the accuracy of matching and increase rates of survival.

-the leading efficiency features of NetApp have allowed to Be The Match reduce requirements capacity 900 TB and simplify significantly the overall management, enabling you to widen 65 to 350 TB without adding any new resource. In addition, the increase in efficiency allows the organization reduce overall storage costs, which is of a paramount importance for an organization non lucrative.

-the switch to a base of NetApp has helped Be The Match improve visibility of information and share it with different applications and user groupswhich is essential to its network of partners comprising 525 affiliates in 40 countries. Given that almost half of all transplants has relationship with donors or international recipients, Be The Match will make its services available to its members through a private cloud-based NetApp.

quotes from support

-Dr. Jeffrey w. Dr. Chell, Executive Director, Be The Match

’technology is fundamental to the success of Be The Match. NetApp has shot down technological barriers and has allowed us to climb positions ahead to our ambitious targets of transplants. ’We are confident that count with NetApp as the basis of our technology infrastructure, Be The Match may further expand the limits of what is possible with cell therapy and help save more lives around the world’.

-Rob Salmon, Executive Vice President of operations externally, NetApp

’ Be The Match work is incredible and has come to so many lives of all the» world. To Be The Match, the data are the most precious resource, and its technological change has revolutionized the way they work and research that can be carried out. “Count on servers of NetApp as a basis for the new infrastructure is proof that the truly appropriate technology can save lives.”

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about Be the Match

Be The Match helps patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other diseases that require a marrow or cord blood transplant. Anyone can join the Be The Match Registry ®, the largest global list of potential marrow donors and cord blood units donated, and make their financial contributions or volunteer. Patients and their families also can go to Be The Match to get assistance and resources before, during and after the transplant. Be The Match is led by the nationwide non-profit of patients from cord (National Marrow Donor Program ®, NMDP), a non-profit organization that seeks and compatible donors, trains health professionals and conducts research aimed at saving more lives. If you want more information, visit BeTheMatch.org or call the 1 (800) MARROW-2.

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ACAI fears that el PP delete el Al SNS benefits abortion, although he doubts to repeal the current law

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MADRID, 21 (EUROPA PRESS)

The President of the Association of accredited clinics for termination of pregnancy (ACAI), Santiago Barambio, fears that the future Government, which will be chaired by Mariano Rajoy, delete the benefit of the national system of health (SNS) voluntary interruption of pregnancy, although he doubts to consider repealing the current law.

As it has been explained to Europa Press, history has shown that the right-wing governments tend not to “play, but is essential”, the law of abortion, “because it generates controversy”. However, it believes that it is possible to amend certain aspects of the abortion law as to the fact that the age of 16 aborten without notification of their parents.

Although warns, “has been shown that the incidence of demand is minimal, so there has been any kind of abuse in this regard”; and, has been mentioned, the majority of young women who have requested it is because they “didn’t have a great family”. However, doubt that this decision has a social impact to treat minors.

, Believes that this decision will be made on the basis of the resolution of the Constitutional Court take months waiting. “It is not known when it will be, but he assured that it will not be within the next 30 days.” “Until they do not take possession Rajoy and is geared, there will be no notification of the TC, and until that it does not occur, there will be no resolution on the resources of the current law unconstitutional”, explained.

Perhaps, what seems more worrisome is that it can eliminate as provision by appealing to “the lack of economic resources of the autonomies” and bulging health bills; although it sees feasible taking into account that “abortion is something that the population is planned only when it is”. In his view, this decision will not create controversy.

Finally, regarding the future, recommended, based on his experience, which does not restrict access to abortion because “doesn’t disappear, only hiding”; and this leads to women without resources to attend clandestine abortion.

“Prior to making decisions in the face to the Gallery, or taking into account the own morality, must know that restrict abortion does not end with him”, has been completed.

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More introduces a rate Orient pharmaceutical prescription

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BARCELONA, 22 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Catalan Generalitat will not make new social cuts in 2012, but to comply with economic forecasts of the EU, it will compensate with a reduction in the salaries of public employees, sale of assets, and an increase in rates. The measures included the introduction of a rate for pharmaceutical prescription dispensed in public health to “prevent abuse”.

, They go up University fees, the price of public transport and receipt of water; examines the increase in the price of gasoline, which would not affect carriers and primary sector.

Said it the President of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, in the subsequent press conference at the first Executive Council after the election, stressing that the Government is aware of that can not cut more in health, education and social services because it threatened “red lines” that impair these benefits public.

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World COPD day.

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Day world of COPD.

November 16.

Spain, November 2011- on Wednesday, November 16 was held a day of dissemination in Caprio Hospital General of Cataluya, on the occasion of world day of the disease (COPD) chronic obstructive pùlmonar.

It has offered information on chronic obstructive pùlmonar disease, damage that produces tobacco and ways to quit.

carried out demonstrations of how inhalers, exchange of cigarettes by lollipops or chocolate, artwork. In addition, offered for free (spirometry, cooximetría and pulse oximetry) pulmonary function tests to patients, family members, visitors and all those who came to the hospital.

We count with the collaboration of patients in the hospital, of the International University of Catalonia (UIC), of associations of patients and from the Spanish society of foreign doctors (SEMEX).

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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