Month: April 2012

Madrid, 2 APR ( EFE).-the Spanish Agency of medicines and Health products ( AEMPS) authorized 1,934 medicinal products for human use in 2011, of which 77 per cent were generic, according to the report annually of this body, under the Ministry of health, Social services and equality. The total number drugs approved last year was an increase of 40 per cent compared with 2010, explains Health said in a statement. Spanish system of pharmacovigilance of medicinal products for human use received 14.886 notifications of suspected adverse reaction in 2011. As regards inspections and control of medicines, 12 per cent of them were international, mostly requested by the European Medicines Agency. On drugs illegal and counterfeit, the note points out the increase in the number of samples sent to the AEMPS by courts and bodies and forces of the State security, which last year were 3.936, 93 percent more. 2011 Also increased medications that reports of health risks involving the use of illegal were issued. Also rose activity on the illegal sale of drugs via the Internet: 125 pages have been investigated and processed a total 73 records. In the area of veterinary medicinal products, allowed the commercialization of 136 products. The system Spanish of veterinary pharmacovigilance received 424 notifications of adverse effects in Spain and 1,136 newspapers reports of security. What is concerning the notification of quality defects, 19,...

MADRID, 2 ( EUROPA PRESS) Scientists from the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA), in United States, claim that post-traumatic stress disorder can be inherited, after having connected a Variant of two genes involved in the production of serotonin with an increased risk of developing this condition, according to the results of a study published in the ' Journal of Affective Disorders '. This condition tends to occur after having suffered a serious situation, such as a physical or sexual abuse, a terrorist attack, a serious accident or a natural disaster, and is characterized by the presence of continuous memories of traumatic moment. In this study, headed by the doctor of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and human behavior Armen Goenjian, extracted DNA samples of 200 adults of several generations of 12 families who had suffered the symptoms that characterize this disorder after surviving the devastating 1988 earthquake in Armenia. In this way, the researchers found that people who had specific variants of two genes, the TPH1 and TPH2, were more likely to develop PTSD. Both genes are responsible for controlling the production of serotonin, a brain chemical that regulates mood, sleep and alertness, which generally are interrupted when appears this disorder. we have the suspicion that the genetic variants produced less serotonin, which predisposes persons to suffer a post-traumatic stress disorder following exposure to violence or...