Month: March 2012

MADRID, 26 ( EUROPA PRESS) Spanish hospitals would save about 178,8 million euros annually with a control second to second their energy consumption, which is 25 percent of the energy demand of the more de160.000 hospital beds in all regions, according to the estimates made by the Group consultant engineering and energy efficiency Euroconsult from the data of the National system of health ( SNS). Currently, hospitals consumed 2 percent of energy in Spain taking into account their spending of light, water and gas. According to the consultant, on average, annual consumption of each hospital bed also 29.199 kWh, representing an approximate expenditure of 4,467 euros a year by reference to an average cost of 15 cents of euro for each kWh The most substantial savings occur in communities with a greater volume of hospital beds. The head would be Catalonia, 37.7 million euros of savings each year, followed by Andalusia (24.5 million), Madrid (23.9), Comunidad Valenciana (15.9), Galicia (11.6) and Castilla y León (10.6). With considerable savings, although below the ten million a year, they would find Basque country (9.3), Canary (8.6), Castile – La Mancha (6.6), Aragon (6.1), Murcia (5.1), Asturias (4.7), Extremadura (4.6), Baleares (3,5), Navarre (2.7), Cantabria (2.4) and La Rioja (one million). Responsible for iGreen and energy management of Euroconsult, Carlos Sáez, stresses that, “Unlike or after cost-saving measures, such as the use of...

MADRID, 26 ( EUROPA PRESS) a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, has shown that young women who start a cancer treatment do not take steps to preserve their fertility, according to data published in the magazine ' Cancer ', of the American society of Oncology. In United States are diagnosed each year more than 120,000 cases of cancer in less than 50 years and, because survival rates are improving, the quality of life is increasingly important. However, the use of chemotherapy or other cancer treatments makes these women have more risk of losing fertility or suffer an early menopause, hence often advise these women of the existence of a wide range of assisted reproduction techniques to improve their chances of conceiving. To know if these women make use of the different techniques of fertility that exist, Dr. Mitchell Rosen surveyed 1,041 women aged 18 to 40 who had diagnosed cancer between 1993 and 2007, including cases of leukemia, Hodgkin’s lymphoma and non-Hodgkin’s, breast cancer and gastrointestinal. Of them all, a total of 918 were treated with therapies that could negatively affect their fertility (chemotherapy, radiotherapy pelvic, pelvic surgery, or bone marrow transplant). Researchers found that 61 percent of these women received advice from their doctors or other health professionals about the risks that the cancer treatment could cause to their fertility, but only...