Month: November 2011

Maintain the illusion helps to palliative patients avoid the loneliness of the end of life

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MADRID, 22 (EUROPA PRESS)

In Spain more than 250,000 people require Hospice per year, and we know that by 30 per cent of the cases patients in terminal stage may feel discouragement, which prevents them from everyday activities and increase their sense of solitude at the end of life. Faced with this situation the remedy lies in maintaining the illusion of these patients and, as explained by social worker Lourdes slide Parra, this is possible thanks to the development of leisure and the support of volunteer activities.

With the aim of “do the last stretch of life a little easier and a little more joy”, this expert advocates bring to these patients, taking into account their constraints, a movie theater or a casino in your own Centre; develop workshops of zarzuela, theatre and arts and crafts; and, even, holding every Friday with dancing and musical performances or varieties”as if each week were Christmas”.

“Must be given the opportunity not to stick his head only in disease and end of life.” “Try every day you enjoy things that are just simple, than in a normal situation it would not give importance, but it is very good for them”, explained this expert that develops in the Centre Hospital for care LAGUNA leisure programme complete.

In the case of this Centre, which serves half thousand people per year, with a stay measured that it takes place between 20 and 45 days, has as the mainstay of treatment carried out these social activities, because them are defined as therapeutic because they know that they improve the quality of life of patients in terminal stage.

Recent studies showed that 76 percent of patients who said that the time was made them short or very short to play any activity, said to be well or very well.

“We have the image that this type of hospitals where is taken care of the end of life must be grim, sites but really there is room for hope,” warned, while emphasizing that “obviously often breathes tension and sadness”, something inevitable that affects families, patients and volunteers.

The ANGULAR stone: VOLUNTEERING

Slide Parra stresses that this wouldn’t be possible without the help of volunteers, which defines as “the heart of the world”. Annually, more than half a hundred volunteers collaborate in this Center, but explains, are needed many more.

“Volunteers of all ages wasted affection, attention, and initiative for the warmth and company to the sick, precisely when especially are helpless and are most in need of love and attention”, points out.

But as well as initiative and affection, volunteers also need specific training to accompany and support patients in this phase of his illness. For this reason, free training courses specifically to the volunteers who accompany patients on their last moments are promoted from LAGUNA.

Precisely on Tuesday has developed this course, and announced that it can attend free another on December 1, literacy in accompaniment.

Slide Parra stresses that there is a pressing need of volunteers to assist patients, because due to changes in social structure there are cases of patients who are especially alone and need company and support of people with time and availability.

And to this end, adds, it is not necessary to have a medical or health knowledge. All they ask is “engagement”, that there is a regularity in assistance, because training runs on its own. Also, explain that once inside they have team psychosocial centre in case of being affected by the situation of the patient.

Although, recalls that the duel did not take home, that “it is important to mark the seasons, not exceed availability and then great care outside the hospital, keep your head in leisure activities, and know that it is not an obligation”.

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More enter a rate for Orient pharmaceutical recipe

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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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The clinic achieved the first biomarkers for the early diagnosis of brain damage in children

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BARCELONA, 22 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona has developed the first biomarkers of image for the early diagnosis of brain damage in children, occurring in between 10% and 12% of infants, which estimated that nearly half they will suffer from disorders of learning in the future

This have announced the head of medical service Clínic Maternofetal and head of the research group of Fetal Medicine and Perinital of the Idibaps, Eduard Gratacós, and the director of science, research and environment of La Caixa community, Enric band, it has funded the research project with 1.2 million euros.

Progress is particularly significant as it finds that brain, problems that allow to implement preventative strategies to avoid problems of development futures in the path of the preventive and personalized medicine can demonstrate, noted Gratacós.

Biomarkers that induce brain damage is achieved through an MRI babies of one year with the aim of studying the “wiring brain child” – neural brain-white matter and, subsequently, an analysis complex and detailed in charge of biologists and engineers who identify the existence of alterations, it has been reported the pediatrician.

Through the application of the theory of complex networks, experts analyze what areas of the brain have abnormalities and are able to predict in 94 per cent of the cases what children will have an abnormal test in two years.

Test candidates

This test, which could be a clinical reality in four or five years, is aimed only at extreme premature babies – 10% of births are premature and 1% are extreme – and babies with growth in the womb problems – what happens in 7% of cases-.

Two-thirds of the brain defects occur in the womb, has explained Gratacós, who has stated that this analysis is a pioneer in the world in its application to children, by the special difficulties posed by the fact that babies have fewer white matter and fat.

Drugs in 20 years

Waiting for drugs to treat this damage, estimated it that it can happen in 20 years, are now potential therapies of early stimulation aimed to correct this problem in the first two years of life, which is when it happens the main formation of the brain.

It is possible and appropriate to act at that precise moment, it has ensured Gratacós, convinced that the advancement, presented at global conferences could be a reality in clinical practice in five years, after the analysis of 1,000 children about a year.

School failure

Gratacós team previously showed that this group of children with brain damage could suffer problems of development in the future, and now he welcomed the achievement of biomarkers to personally identify which children suffer from these problems precisely to provide a solution to prevent the future consequences, including school failure in the mild form of the damage.

The aforementioned problems is “invisible” in the first years of life, and when he gets in evidence – generally to the years 6-7, has a difficult solution.

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More evidence of drug resistant TB by inadequate therapy

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New YORK (Reuters Health) – the results of a

systematic review and a meta-analysis reinforced the idea of

that the inappropriate treatment plays an important role in the

rise of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis

(MDR-TB).

The team of Dutch and Swedish researchers recognized

that is generally accepted that the inappropriate treatment

leads to an increase in the resistance, but experts

they wanted to obtain more evidence in this regard.

The study was published in European Respiratory Journal.

La Dr. Marieke j. van der Werf of the foundation of

KNCV tuberculosis in the Hague, and colleagues reviewed literature

and they found little information on treatment, regimens

drug prior to treatment resistance profiles

and before the failure or recurrence.

Diagnosis of MDR-TB required that patients

initially have the strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

susceptible at least to isoniazid or rifampicin to be

become MDR-TB at the time of treatment failure or

recurrence of the disease, and with a genotípico pattern

identical to the ECA initial.

The researchers finally identified and reviewed

four studies, ranging in size from 233 to 2.901

patients. Only two trials met the criteria for the

inclusion in the meta-analysis.

These two trials included over 3,200 patients and

they showed that the risk of developing MDR-TB is 27 times higher

in patients that is prescribed in a therapeutic regimen

inappropriate.

“Believe that there is little risk that patients who

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is defined that they acquired MDR-TB in reality have been

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re-infectado with an identical strain that was already MDR-TB”,

added the researchers.

“The new review provides evidence for the general opinion

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of the development of MDR-TB may be due to the

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(initial) treatment is inappropriate”, concluded the authors

who added: “the evidence is based on the studies

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available better quality”.

Source: European Respiratory Journal, 17 of October of the

2011

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People with low weight have a higher risk in surgery

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – people with a lower than normal weight has a 40 percent higher risk of dying in the first month after surgery than patients with overweight, according to an investigation released Monday.

The findings suggest that the index of BMI, or BMI, may be useful to predict which patients suffer a greater risk as they recover from the surgery, reported researchers American in Archives of Surgery.

Previous studies that evaluated the role of BMI in surgery have had mixed results, said George Stukenborg, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who participated in the study.

“Low BMI patients have increased risk of death 30 days after the surgery,” said in an interview telephone Stukenborg

Researchers used data from nearly 190,000 patients who underwent a series of surgeries in 183 hospitals between 2005 and 2006.

The BMI is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared. According to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention’s (CDC) of United States, people with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 have normal weight; those with a BMI of 25 to 29.9 are overweight and those with a BMI of 30 or more is obese.

To search for a link between body weight and risk of death, classified patients into five groups or quintiles: people with one BMI less than 23.1; people with a BMI of less than 26.3; 23.1 people with a BMI of 26.3 to less than 29.7; people with a BMI of 29.7 below 35.3; and people with a BMI of 35.3 or greater.

In total, 2.245 or 1.7 percent of the participants in the study died within 30 days of the surgery.

“We have found that patients in the lowest quintile had 40% likely greater death compared to the range median,” said Stukenborg, referring to the people in the category of overweight with a BMI of 26.3 to 29.7.

Even when the researchers adjusted by the type of surgery and other risk factors, those with a BMI under still had one higher risk of dying during the first month after surgery compared with patients in surgery with greater weight.

Stukenborg said that it was not clear why. The study did not follow recent weight loss, so it could be that people with a lower BMI were more sick from a beginning

Either way, Stukenborg said that doctors should consider the BMI when plan surgeries for their patients.

Being overweight or being obese leads to many other risks, raising the chances of heart disease, diabetes, some types of cancer, arthritis and other conditions.

Diseases related to obesity correspond to almost 10 percent of the doctor in United States spending, or an estimated 147,000 million dollars a year.

(Published in Spanish by Ricardo Figueroa)

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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