Month: March 2012

MADRID, 23 (Reuters/EP) An international study coordinated by the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) has revealed that children born prematurely might have more difficulties to develop their language skills during childhood, both reading and writing. Thus emerges from the results of a study published in the journal ' Pediatrics ' in which analysed data from 1,529 preterm births before week 37 gestation and 945 boys born on the scheduled date. In this way, and according to recognize the authors, have observed that birth prematurely does not require that these babies are intended to have language in the long term problems, but do pass through more difficult times, especially between 3 and 12 years of age. “as they grow, children born suffer difficulties with the more complex linguistic functions,” said Inge van Noort-van der Spek, author of the study. In fact, the results showed that there were little differences between preterm infants and the rest in regards to their basic language skills, such as the development of basic vocabulary in the first two years of life. , However, between 3 and 12 years old the gap used to expand when language skills is more advanced, as the reading and writing of complex, precisely when most sentences need it, according to experts, which can lead to “problems and limitations” in school or social activities of these children. “preterm infants...

says that the Interterritorial Council of health “will not serve much” if it does not work “as a mechanism of coordination” of services BILBAO, 23 ( EUROPA PRESS) Director of health of the Basque Government, Rafael Bengoa, has considered this Friday that if the autonomous communities “not continue sharing patients, bodies and other services”, which is what in his view constitutes the national health system in a decentralized country, “there will be no” national health system. Bengoa has made these statements during the course of the presentation of the extension of the telephonic Health Council and the commissioning of the Web Health Council at the headquarters of emergency of Txurdinaga, Bilbao. To questions from journalists, the Basque Minister of Health stated that “is possible or not” to extend the health agreement with La Rioja for the provision of services to patients of Rioja Alavesa, whose term ends next Thursday, day 29. “will see what scenario raises the next week, but think that if communities are still not sharing patients between them, which is what makes up the national health system in a country decentralized, if it breaks, there will be national health system”, has been raised. In this sense, has advanced that his Department recently delivered to La Rioja counterparts a new proposal about “how we believe that we must work from now definitively”, and added that “We hope...