Month: March 2012

Asunción, 26 mar ( EFE).- the President of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, has today entered a sanatorium in Asunción for a review of the lymphatic cancer that was diagnosed in 2010 and that, according to the previous check, last January, sent altogether. Lugo, 60, “shall be submitted to a medical checkup at the private sanatorium Migone de Asunción”, after having met this morning with official activities in the Government Palace, reported an official source. After the check, the head of State will address Mburuvichá Roga, presidential House, added the Agency official IP. According to local media, the ruler retired from the Government Palace after two official meetings and with this medical review will no longer go to a hospital in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo Brazil, where had been treated for his illness. The ruler became the previous check on 27 January at the Sirio-Libanés hospital of that city, where the medical team that attended him reported a “complete remission” of the lymphoma was detected in August 2010 in the groin, the mediastinum and a bone region of the third vertebra. Since then went through six sessions of chemotherapy listed for your case....

SILVER SPRING, USA (Reuters) – A panel of advisers said that heart for new studies should require drugs against obesity, possibly adding a new obstacle in the way of its adoption. The food and drug administration panel of United States ( FDA) voted 17 to 6 that regulators should forcing companies to conduct studies of heart impact to sell their drugs in United States, even if the clinical trials do not show initially evidence of risk heart. However, the panel did not discuss even if the evidence should be out before or after approval. The news could affect Arena Pharmaceuticals Vivus Inc. Inc and Orexigen Therapeutics Inc, which are competing for bring the first drug against obesity to market more of a...

Buenos Aires, 30 mar (EFE).-Argentina shall preside over the next two years the Regional Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Organization for agriculture and food (FAO) confirmed today EfE sources of the organization. The choice of Argentina to chair the regional conference was announced by the director-general of FAO, José Graziano Da Silva, in the framework of a meeting of Ministers of Agriculture of Latin America and the Caribbean, which concludes today in Buenos Aires. The meeting, involving the last representatives of 32 countries in the region Monday, addresses the main challenges of the international food and agricultural agenda and aims to set the priorities that will continue to FAO during the next two years. “We know that food security depends on actions in the field of social, economic and productive, and we also know that it involves political commitment not only of a Government but an entire society,” said Thursday Graziano da Silva. The director of the FAO stressed the “need to increase global food production by 70 per cent to feed a population that will reach 9 billion people in 2050”. La Latin America initiative and the Caribbean without hunger, driven in 2005 by Brazil and Guatemala in the field of FAO, is a planned for before 2025 goal, as he recalled Graziano da Silva....

ZURICH, 30 ( EUROPA PRESS) Professor Jiri Dvorak, Head physician of FIFA and President of its evaluation and medical research centre, explained that the governing body of world football will examine cases of footballers who have suffered a stopped heart, to know the causes of the sudden attacks, as the Player of the Fabrice Muamba Bolton, although it considers that impossible “completely eliminate the risk” of that can happen again. Project will be presented at a special Congress to be held on 23 and 24 may in Budapest and he has “invited all the doctors of the national teams, to create a global database containing all instances of sudden heart stop” in order to “analyze risk factors”, according to the own Dvorak. “has been working in the prevention from the case of Marc-Vivien Foe in 2003, when we reevaluamos the situation.” The case triggered alarm bells ringing and dedicated fully to find solutions and to do everything possible to mitigate risk factors. “In 2005 we set out to make complete medical checkups to each player before the competitions and later FIFA imposed the obligation of such tests,” explained. Of all forms, considers that “you can always do more”, which is why they recommend that the players of the national teams undergo medical assessments before the parties: “increasingly more member associations follow this advice, but the sanitary quality varies greatly...