Month: March 2012

MADRID, 22 ( EUROPA PRESS) The Socialist spokesman on the Committee on health and Social services of the Senate, Roberto Lertxundi, has presented a parliamentary question to the Minister of industry, Ana Mato, explain the next week in the full Senate questioned why the free dispensation of the morning-after pill. In the explanatory statement of the initiative, to be debated in the plenary on Tuesday, March 27, Lertxundi ensures that the decision to request a report on the effectiveness and safety of this medication before possible effects that can cause its consumption in adolescent girls “lacks the most elementary scientific rigour” and is addressed to “justify a possible restriction of their use”. “You are trying to create a State of opinion contrary to emergency contraception, when it has not been reported or a single case of adverse event serious for its use”, has admitted this Senator. In fact, remember that you it’s a drug considered “essential” by the World Health Organization (who), the International Federation of Gynecology and obstetricians (FIGO) and the Spanish society of Gynecology and obstetricians (SEGO), among...

VALENCIA, 22 (EUROPA PRESS) The surgeon and medical director of IntraObes, Miguel Ángel Escartí, emphasised that obesity surgery cures the 78 per cent of cases of sleep apnea, as indicated in a statement on Thursday. The doctor has pointed out that one in five people with obesity suffers from sleep apnea, which consists a blockage at the exit of the air during breathing for more than 10 seconds. According to Escartí, the sleep apnea episodes are repeated throughout the night. “it is as if someone gourd you head with a pillow 50 or 100 times during the night,” has told. Other symptoms on the sleep apnea are “snoring very strong and then they stop breathing seconds until that seemed to be choking and return to snoring” highlighted the doctor. Also noted that those affected by this condition develop over time hypertension and “substantially” increases the risk of cerebral vascular accident and cardiovascular diseases. This online Escartí has stressed that the patient with sleep apnea has “unconscious awakening”, wakes up and does not rest, just wanting to sleep, is irritated, has bad memory, is unable to deal with the problems and often suffers from a depressive table. The medical director of IntraObes has tempered that, although the sleep apnea is “very common” among the population, 4 per cent suffers, but only 1 in 10 cases is “correctly diagnosed and treated,...

Madrid, 22 mar ( EFE).-the Organization Medical College has been today to the pill the day after is specified, that not prescribed by doctors, so that women could get free health centres and family planning it. Has said so today the Chairman of the WTO, Juan José Rodríguez Sendín, in press conference once the Minister of health, Ana Mato, assurance yesterday in the Senate that the three medical reports sought to determine if the postcoital pill must return to undergo medical prescription, rather than dispensing without a prescription in pharmacies, “aren’t conclusive nor coincidental”. One of these reports is the WTO, while Rodríguez Sendín has refused to explain the meaning of the same until a decision is taken by the Ministry. “the WTO believes that the emergency pill must be indicated, that it is not the same prescribed, it must be free in order to arrive to all those women who need and must be served in health or family planning centres”, pointed out. The reason, according to Sendín, is that this organization does not believe that this drug is cheaper have to buy over the internet, nor who can only access to those who have money to buy. “Believe that it is a need that must be accessible to all women who need it.” “And to guarantee to the juvenile those reasonable doubts that this drug provides, we...

MADRID, 22 ( EUROPA PRESS) Up 35 per cent of older people who live in their homes and take drugs suffer any adverse reaction, said Dr. Alfonso Cruz Jentoft, Geriatrics of Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal in Madrid, who says that you one of every three income in hospitals of persons age 65 and over are at least in part, due to this cause. In this way, the Spanish society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, (SEGG) has pointed out that the risk of adverse reactions to drugs increases with age as a result, inter alia, of the amount of diseases. Also noted that most of the drugs have not been adequately studied in older people. In this sense, there is a European initiative to increase the participation of the elderly in clinical trials and a group of experts in medicine in geriatrics from the European Union to improve the quality of the information available on the use of drugs in the elderly. From the SEGG claim that there is a five percent chance of the person suffering an adverse reaction when eaten a single drug and almost 100% of possibilities, when taking more than ten. Improve the prescription On the other hand, Cruz Jentoft, has considered that the improper prescription of drugs for the geriatric population is “a public health issue”. “A drug is considered adequate or appropriate when it...