Month: February 2012

Family physicians are formed on arthrosis given the importance of this disease in Catalonia.

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family physicians are formed on arthrosis given the importance of this disease in Catalonia.

a million Catalans suffers from osteoarthritis, disease that often aggravates symptoms coincide with the colder months.

Spain, February of 2012- the Catalan society of family and community, CAMFiC, medicine organized the II Jornada of Rheumatology, focused this year on arthritis, one of the main diseases of the apparatus locomotive. last Wednesday, throughout the day, the headquarters of CAMFiC 316 Diputación of Barcelona hosted a day job where the integrated approach was reviewed and scientific in this condition, recent drugs incorporated for their treatment and the most efficient way of carrying out explorations, infiltration, as well as the interpretation of radiological testing and diagnosis.

Daily pass suffering from arthrosis consultation of professionals in primary care, family physicians are therefore a key figure in this pathology, in coordination with the rheumatologist. This is a very prevalent illness, to the point that it is estimated that in Catalonia, the number of patients can reach one million people. He is osteoarthritis, especially knee and hip, one of the leading causes of permanent incapacity for work.

The main feature of arthritis is wear of bone cartilage, which favours the friction between bones and leads to pain and disability movement. The main symptoms are: pain, deformity of the joints and inflammation with acute episodes. Arthritis has no specific cure, but forced to deal with its main manifestation: pain. The routine drugs to treat are analgesics and anti-inflammatory agents, in addition to different interventions such as infiltrations, physiotherapy and complementary therapies.

This disease affects the quality of life, and may condition the usual activities of patients. It is more frequent over 50 years and has features of chronic disease, although its evolution can be very slow. Arthritis can be controlled with pharmacological action, but also acting on the sedentary lifestyle, so frequent a weight loss and maintaining moderate physical activity can be factors that improve the status of patients. The coming years will increase significantly the number of patients, due to population ageing.

Bioiberica Farma company collaborated in this scientific meeting, in accordance with the principles of promoting health and well-being that drives the CAMFIC.

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The Institut de Recerca biomedical manages to ease of administration and maximum functionality in the hands of NetApp and Satec storage.

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El Institut de Recerca biomedical manages to ease of administration and maximum functionality in storage in the hands of NetApp and Satec.

The institution manages to store efficiently 269 TB capacity gross with the introduction of two FAS3040 HA and HA FAS3140 of NetApp systems.

Madrid, February 2012.- El Institut de Recerca biomedical (IRB Barcelona), centre dedicated to basic and applied life science research, created by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2005, has undertaken an ambitious project of storage from the hand of Satec.

Considered this aspect of it as one of the most important centres of research in the life sciences because of the large amount of data generated, IRB Barcelona implemented, following the guidelines of the institution five years ago were marked in the design of the IT – infrastructure flexibility, efficiency, consolidation and cost savings-, a storage system to “ properly store data and perform backup copies to ensure their integrity, maintain scientific knowledge within the Organization and facilitate collaboration between its members ”, says Francisco Lozano, responsible for service of technology of the information of the IRB Barcelona.

With these premises, IRB Barcelona located in NetApp technology and, in particular, in their systems FAS3040 HA and FAS3140 has, a storage solution reliable, high-performance, scalability and, above all, as it highlights Lozano, “ easy to manage, because with a single system and a single point of control, we can manage the entire storage solution ”.

With this decision, IRB Barcelona has achieved a storage infrastructure that needs very few resources of administration. Similarly, this solution not only avoids giving up functionality, but enjoy new ones that would not be possible with traditional storage. Explains the head of TI, “ have functionalities that other more complex solutions lack, such as for example the integration with VMware ”. And it is precisely here that Lozano highlights “ the very important role played Satec, especially 5 years ago when there were very few companies in Spain specialists and certified in NetApp ”.

The FAS3040 HA and HA FAS3140 of NetApp systems hosting service files of the clusters of computing, storage for data acquisition systems, the storage of the virtual platform system and service files for groups of departments of administration, research and scientific platforms.

Five years after the implementation of the infrastructure, Lozano noted that “ the outcome of the project is very positive, because we have achieved almost 100% of the objectives: the system is flexible, has been growing in capacity, performance and functionality, and all of this with a faultless reliability ”.

About IRB Barcelona

The Institute of biomedical research (IRB Barcelona) is a public centre dedicated to basic and applied research where converge in a unique triangle molecular and cellular biology, structural and computational biology, and chemistry, proteomics, genomics expertsBiostatistics and advanced digital microscopy. IRB Barcelona working 28 research groups structured in five programmes, with the common goal of undertake multidisciplinary projects capable of addressing biomedical problems of great socio-economic impact. The final strategic mission is to move the results to the clinic and has already established three biotechnology companies. It hosts about 470 employees from 35 different nationalities (data oct. 2011). IRB Barcelona was created by the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Universitat de Barcelona and the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) in October 2005, and is located on the PCB. It is one of eight institutes in Spain distinguished himself as a centre of excellence Severo Ochoa by the Ministry of economy and competitiveness.

About Satec

SATEC is a Spanish multinational integrated technological solutions specializes in advanced services associated with the new technologies of information.

Since its founding in 1987 has promoted cooperation with customers through innovation in processes, media, and technologies to contribute to change, productivity and competitiveness in business.

With an eminently practical approach, brings together the technology training, knowledge and innovation capacity necessary to make complex technologies accessible and resolvent tools for its customers.
More than 1,200 professionals form part of this company, with a presence in Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Angola and Mozambique

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Voyage to the bottom of the sea!

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voyage to the bottom of the sea!

the week of humanistic activities of the Academy of medical sciences of Bilbao meets this year its 39TH Edition.

-the week of humanistic activities of the Academy of medical sciences of Bilbao has been running continuously since 1973

– the lectures cover from the humanistic point of view subjects such as the role of the Red Cross of the sea rescues and shipwrecks, the biodiversity as a source of new drugs, the relationship between oceans and health, marketing of fish in the modern age or the contribution of the anisakis in the allergy to fish

– art exhibitions of painting and photography are also scheduled

Bilbao, 2012-February since 1973 the Academy of medical sciences of Bilbao (ACMB) launched the Humanities week there has been no any year that this scientific and cultural initiative has stopped extending its offer. Specifically, for this year, have scheduled a series of five conferences which will deal with medical topics from a point of view humanistic, which will be taught by renowned professionals in research, clinical care, and teaching. In addition, this year programming includes a few exhibitions of painting and photography, as well as a simulated aquatic rescue carried out by the Red Cross of Bizkaia. All these conferences are open to the public.

Both conferences and art exhibition will take place from Monday 6 to Friday 10 February Museum maritime estuary of Bilbao, located on the quay Ramón de la Sota, 1. The conferences will begin every day at 19: 00.

39TH week of humanistic activities is organized by the Academy of medical sciences of Bilbao with the collaboration of the University of the country Basque/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) and the Museum Bilbao estuary maritime; and with the sponsorship of the Diputación Foral de Bizkaia and Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa.

Conference

The first of the meetings – Monday, February 6-, will be taught by Javier Zárraga, President of Cross Red Bizkaia under the title “ Red Cross in the salvage of shipwrecks sea ”. The Bureau will be moderate by Ricardo Franco Vicar, Secretary general of the ACMB. The same Monday at 1200 hours on the Esplanade of the Red Cross of Biscay Maritime Museum shall carry out a water rescue drill.

For its part, on Tuesday, February 7 the Vice-President of the ACMB, Valentin Achotegui and Antonio quarter dampened the Conference given by Carmen Cuevas, Director of r & d of PharmaMar, a subsidiary of the Zeltia group, and entitled “ the biodiversity as a source of new drugs ”. Not in vain, the sea is a source of resources to exploit, both in terms of energy, such as food or pharmaceutical.

On Wednesday, February 8, the Conference “ oceans and health ”, will be delivered by Manu Soto, Department of zoology and Animal cell biology of the Faculty of science and technology of the BASQUE country. The Bureau will be moderate by Elena strong, Vice President the ACMB biologist.

Furthermore, on Thursday, February 9, Francisco Luis Dehesa, veterinary Vice-President of the Academy of medical sciences of Bilbao and head of the Social Action of the City Council of Bilbao area, will offer a conference under the title “ marketing of fish in the modern age prior to the industrial revolution ” and moderated by the President of the ACMBJuan Ignacio Goiria. The Conference will focus on biomarkers at molecular, cellular and tissue levels in organisms (invertebrates and fish), sentinels that act as early indicators of pollution of the sea. These markers serve as alarm system administrations take corrective measures in order to prevent irreversible changes in human health.

The Humanities week concludes on Friday, February 10, with the talk “ contribution of the anisakis in allergy to fish ” taught by Maria Teresa Audicana, medical assistant of the allergy service of the University Hospital of Álava and moderated by him Secretary of ACMB, Gorka Pérez-Yarza.

More than one hundred years of history

The Academy of medical sciences of Bilbao is a centuries-old institution founded on January 19, 1895 in Bilbao and that throughout his career during the 19th centuries, 20th and 21st has counted with the participation and collaboration of the most distinguished doctors of the city. Since then, the Academy offers the possibility of making progress in the continuing education of professionals of health through the Organization of courses, workshops, symposiums, seminars and any kind of scientific meetings in which it elaborates on and debate about medical breakthroughs, integrating other medical and health disciplinessuch as pharmacy, biology, veterinary medicine and Odontology.

Days: Monday February 16 to Friday, February 10, 2012.

Time: 19: 00.

Place: Maritime Museum RIA de Bilbao. Pier Ramón de la Sota, 1 Bilbao.

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Prescription of bisphosphonates before interventions extend twice the life of hip and knee prostheses.

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Prescribed bisphosphonates before interventions extend twice the life of hip and knee prostheses.

-a study by a researcher of the IDIAP in Britain shows that generic prescribed to prevent bone fractures, lengthens the life of the prosthetic knee and hip. The results of the study have been published in the journal BMJ

Spain, February 2012.- the study has been made on a population of 41,000 patients who were operated prosthetic hip or knee between 1986 and 2006 in Britain. Of these patients were identified almost 2,000 that had been treated with bisphosphonates (initially generic to prevent fragile bone fractures). The survival of prostheses in these users was significantly superior to users who had not been treated with this generic principle. In fact, the study shows that the average survival of the prosthesis is almost double for those patients who have been early with bisphosphonates for 6 months prior to the intervention or after it.

Dani Prieto, researcher of the IDIAP, that has been scholarship working on biomedical research unit on muscle-skeletal diseases at the University of Oxford, says that “these results are extrapola-bles people here”.

What is new in the study is that currently patients which should be subjected to an intervention of prosthesis and / or hip are not being treated pharmacologically with bisphosphonates. Doing so, it seems that it would give very good results.

what is the IDIAP?

The Foundation Jordi Gol i Gurina was created in 1996 by the Catalan Health Institute, with the aim of promoting and managing innovation, training, teaching and research clinical, epidemiological and health services in the field of primary health care.

2006, Became the Institute for research in primary care Jordi Gol (IDIAP Jordi Gol), and 2010 admits to the UAB as a University Institute of research in primary care.

From August 2011 has the quality certification ISO 9001: 2008 for its support and advisory activities to project research.

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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