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Advised not to delay vaccination against flu

“80,000 doses of influenza vaccine were applied during March and it is estimated that this year her will require approximately 3,000,000 bonaerenses included in the risk groups,” explained the Minister of health of the province of Buenos Aires, Alejandro Collia. The trivalent vaccine prevents against influenza A (H1N1), to ( H3N2) and B is intended for children from 6 months to 2 years, pregnant women, childbirth until the sixth month following childbirth, over 65, people with risk factors and health staff. The latter must submit medical order indicating respiratory or cardiac conditions, immunodeficiency congenital or acquired (such as HIV infection), obesity, diabetes, transplantation and oncohematological diseases, and any condition that in case of contracting a flu puts at risk his life. Despite the fact that the vaccine will be available until the end of August, the provincial director of primary health care, Luis Crovetto, urged the population to “immunize as soon as possible to acquire defenses and be protected in the months of intense cold where there is greater circulation of influenza virus”. It also requested “not to forget the measures of prevention and hygiene”. Health authorities insist not wait at the last minute because the vaccine begins to act with all its effectiveness in 10 days, and if people come with time avoid the long delays and the concentration of people in the vacunatorios. Other preventive measures In...

Treatments Abbott HCV show encouraging results

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(Reuters) – A combination of experimental treatments oral hepatitis C which are being developed by Abbott Laboratories resulted in cure rates exceeding 90 percent in patients previously untreated, according to data from a small study in intermediate stage. The information, which will be presented in a liver meeting European later this month, placed Abbott in the race by produce a therapeutic regime free of interferon for the serious liver disease. “This shows unprecedented cure rates for the “ is the most common infection with hepatitis C. “And we were able to achieve these rates only with a 12-week therapy”, said Scott Brun, Vice-President of the Development Division for infectious diseases of Abbott. Summaries of the studies, which will be presented in a meeting of the European Association for the study of the liver (EASL_por_su_sigla_en_inglÃ©s) in Barcelona, were available Wednesday. “(The EASL meeting) is going to be very clear that we are “ a landmark truly transformational for patients with HCV (virus_de_la_hepatitis_C) “, Brun said. “ The trial of phase II on patients previously untreated he combined the improved ABT-450 Abbott protease inhibitor with the antiviral drug ritonavir with polymerase inhibitor ABT-333 and Ribavirin, a drug which is part of the regimes currently available against hepatitis C. Patients receiving therapy combined for 12 weeks and 24 weeks were controlled in search of signs of the virus in the blood to...

A step would help rescuers of stature to perform CPR

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new YORK (Reuters Health) – when a patient performs a cardiac arrest in a hospital, doctors and nurses him do cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), which includes compressions chest that they need to be sufficiently deep as to carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body. But if the rescuer is of short stature and the victim is in the hospital bed, a problem arises: is difficult you can achieve the necessary height to press the chest correctly the chest, by what the rescuer should depend on the force of the upper part of the body to be able to perform them. Sounds logical to offer rescuers a step is a useful tool. However, equip all hospital beds with a step would require an expenditure, as believed Dr. Dana P. Edelson, author of doctor of the University of Chicago Center a new study principal. So that hospitals would need to first know if the use of steps would improve the quality of the maneuvers of RCP. Then, the team of Edelson asked 50 professionals of its Center, all trained in CPR, which conducted the chest compressions on a mannequin. Each made series of two minutes standing on the floor of the room and then on a step of 23 centimeters (cm) in height. The mannequin had a sensor that recorded the depth of compressions and other characteristics to...

Troubled cough vaccine protection decreases in adolescence

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new YORK (Reuters Health) – in 2010, during an outbreak cough whooping in California, United States, children vaccinated between 8 and 12 years were more prone to contracting the disease than children of other ages, suggesting that protection decreases with age. “We are convinced that the length (of the vaccine) is not “” which imagined”, said Dr. David Witt, a specialist in infectious diseases from Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, in San Rafael, California, and lead author of the study. The cause of the troubled, cough, or pertussis, is the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. The infection produces intense cough that lasts weeks and can lead to pneumonia. Centers for disease prevention and Control United States (CDC for its acronym in English) estimated that, each year, nine of every 100,000 Americans develops the disease. While the figure is much lower than before of the appearance of the vaccine, the infection grows from for two decades. The DTaP vaccine is applied in five doses at 2, 4, 6 and 18 months of age, and between 4 and 6 years. The CDC recommended apply a (Tdap) booster dose at age 11 or 12. In 2010, at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael was recorded a sudden increase in cases that people tried to finally of a troubled cough outbreak, the largest in California, more than 50 years. “We began to analyze the data and we were...

Colombia extends ban on mining concessions until may

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BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia extended the suspension for receiving new applications for mining concessions until may, when he enters the National Agency for mining operation, to implement improvements in the processes for the award, said the sector regulator. The Andean country, which crosses by a rise of exploitation and mining and oil exploration, backed by a strong foreign direct investment income, seeks to tighten up the supervision of the sector after accidents that have left dozens dead in the past two years. “It is considered convenient, from the technical point of view, extend the term of suspension (…)” “for the receipt of proposals for mining concession contract and legalization of traditional mining applications”, said a resolution of the Ministry of mines. Extension is the latest in a series of suspensions that began in February of last year, explained in the high volume of applications that the Government receives each year, which makes it necessary to have more time to do the technical and legal assessments. Colombia received 13.234 million dollars last year in foreign direct investment, most concentrated mainly in oil, and mining activities encouraged by the improvement in security conditions after the retreat of the guerrillas for a military offensive supported by United States. (Report of Nelson Bocanegra); (Edited by Ricardo...

Month: April 2012

Advised not to delay vaccination against flu

Treatments Abbott HCV show encouraging results

A step would help rescuers of stature to perform CPR

Troubled cough vaccine protection decreases in adolescence

Colombia extends ban on mining concessions until may

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