Month: March 2012

(updates with meeting of President Raúl Castro and Chan) Havana, 30 mar ( EFE).-the Director general of the who, china Margaret Chan, said today in Cuba, the Island faces the challenges of population ageing, the increase in diseases such as cancer, and maintaining a health care system that is sustainable and quality. “to go ahead with your system, (Cuba) must do so sustainable, meet the expectations of the population and make it effective and good quality”, said Chan at a press conference in Havana. The leader of the World Health Organization (who) today commended the comprehensive and humane approach to the Cuban health system, as well as the “commitment” of the authorities of the country with the health of the people since the revolution of 1959. Warned that, like many other countries, the island faces challenges such as ageing of the population and an increase in the incidence of heart conditions, cancer and diabetes. Chan arrived in Cuba on Monday for a meeting of the Group of the who global policies in Havana, where today was greeted by President Raúl Castro, who spoke of various projects of cooperation, according to a report by State television. This Friday Chan signed with the Cuban health Minister, Roberto Morales, a document with the working arrangements for the next four years between who, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Cuba. At the...

art also cure. People who survived a stroke recover faster and have a better quality of life if they enjoy the various forms of art. Ercole Vellone of the University of Tor Vergata (Italy), researcher main, considers ″que our study shows the importance of keeping in touch with art life to recover after a stroke. Art seems to generate changes in the brain that help you recover when things go mal″. The expert also highlights how common is this disease currently ″cada six second a person suffers a stroke in the mundo″. In fact, this disease is the third leading cause of death and main cause of disability in adults. Art for health in his research, Vellone worked with 192 people around 70 years who had suffered a stroke. Each volunteer reported if he liked art, that kind of art enjoyed and how often. On the other hand, the expert compared the quality of life of the volunteers who were in contact with art and those who do not. And it turned out that people that frequented the art showed better overall health, found it easier to walk and they felt more vital. In addition, mood was much more beneficial because they were less anxious, more cheerful and showed fewer symptoms of depression. As if this outside little, his memory worked more efficiently, they could more easily understand what...

Madrid, 30 mar ( EFE).-the Government has decided to denounce to the Constitutional Court to the Junta de Andalucía by public auction for the selection of drugs to dispensing in pharmacies of that community, because it believes that it invades the State legislation and reduces the offer of benefits. Thus, the Council of Ministers has decided to present a positive conflict of jurisdiction to the resolution of the Andalusian health service of January 25, 2012, which calls the selection of drugs, on the understanding that he sets a new legal regime not provided for in the State basic law before the constitutional. The approach to this conflict entails the suspension of the Andalusian rule. The Government believes that the new pricing mechanism reduces the established range of benefits guaranteed in Andalusia on the guaranteed by inclusion in the portfolio of common services of the national health service. Also believes that the Board regulates the prescription of drugs without powers, to become the State who has exclusive competence in the field of pharmaceutical legislation. The Government emphasizes that its decision is supported by a favourable opinion from the Council of State, which questions the adequacy to the competence order of the regional resolution. La Junta de Andalucía made the first of these auctions last March 19. Was awarded through public auction certain generic drugs to make them those who have...

MADRID, 30 (EUROPA PRESS) Farmaindustria supports the decision of the Government to appeal to the Constitutional Court the resolution of the service Andalusian of health (SAS) of the Junta de Andalucía which establishes the call of an auction for the selection of drugs to dispense by offices of the autonomous community in the event of prescription pharmacy active ingredient. This decision to the Executive, as he reminded employers of the pharmaceutical industry in Spain, is in line with the opinions issued recently by the Council of State, which considered that “there is violation of the constitutional rules of distribution of powers between the State and the communities”. But, in addition to invading own and exclusive constitutional powers of the State for the inclusion of medicines in the public pharmaceutical delivery and price fixing, understands that it also carries a “rupture of the equal access to the pharmaceutical provision recognised as minimum and common by State regulations”. “auctions are one case of inequity between Spanish patients depending on the community in which they reside, causing the rupture of the unity of the pharmaceutical market and creating an imbalance in the pharmaceutical provision of the national system of health (SNS), implying a serious restriction of competition for pharmaceutical companies,” assured...