Month: April 2012

Madrid, 1 Apr (EFE).-the Deputy of IU and spokesman parliamentary in the Health Commission of the Congress, Gaspar Llamazares, said today that both the Ministry of health, social services and equality, and its owner, Ana Mato, “have demonstrated in this short space of time a worrying political weakness”. Thus Llamazares has referred to the performance of the new Minister during the first hundred days of the popular executive action, in which, in his view, “is being revealed in sharp way that health care is not a political priority for this Government or the PP”. “Is thus repeated a similar scenario to that held the legislature passed with the PSOE, which is sadder still if we take into account the great challenges that face”, it has been argued in a press release. For Llamazares, Mato carried out its work with a “total slack” on the “big” requirements and demands placed on the table by the millions of users of health care, professionals of the sector and certain groups social and business linked to the same. Member of Parliament of IU has warned that “this remarkable lack of initiative by the Minister is added, moreover, that his Department is politically on the defensive, the worst thing that can happen in a Ministry of these characteristics”, has tempered. “More to launch proposals constructive and efficient in what seem to be dedicated is...

Madrid, 1 Apr (EFE).-one of every 300 children in Spain suffering from autism, according to the latest diagnostic tests by researchers at the University of Salamanca and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III between children 18 to 24 months, to detect early these child development disorders. These analyses to identify diseases early are being developed in Salamanca and Zamora and already made in Madrid, as he explained to Efe Manuel Posada, the director of the Research Institute for rare diseases of this Center, which boasts a group of autistic spectrum disorders study. Tomorrow celebrates the world autism awareness day and you will hear many of the problems that have to deal with both persons who suffer, and their families, who have managed to adapt the definition of this disorder in the next print edition of the Real Academia Española. Will already not be presented as a child syndrome characterized by inability to congenital establish contact verbal and affectionate with people, but as a disorder of development that “affects communication and social interaction, characterized by restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behaviour”. The causes of autism should be sought in the disorders of brain development and therefore recent studies are influencing the possible changes that suffers the fetus and the embryo, especially in its nervous system, to see the influence they can have on the neurobehavioural problems and autism in...

Havana, 1 APR ( EFE).-the President of Cuba, Raúl Castro, received Saturday night at his counterpart and ally Venezuelan, Hugo Chavez, who returned to Havana to continue the treatment of radiation therapy against cancer that began a week ago, local media have reported today. Chavez said “a brief and lively dialogue” with Castro on arrival at the International Airport José Martí, Havana, has indicated the note published by the official newspaper “Juventud Rebelde” on its cover accompanied by a photo of both leaders. This is the second trip of Chavez to Cuba, after the last operation that was submitted on the island little more than one month ago of a new tumor, recurrence of cancer for which he underwent in June of last year. The weekend passed the ruler of Venezuela returned to Havana to begin the treatment of radiotherapy, which he himself has announced need, at least four sessions more although he did not rule out that some of them received in their country. Head State Venezuela to return to Cuba last Saturday takes place seventy-two hours after the return to Caracas after the five days was on the island to undergo the first sessions of radiotherapy. Bruno Rodríguez, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the island was also present at last night at the airport welcome. , Hugo Chávez was operated on 10 June last year of a...