Month: April 2012

Washington, 23 mar (EFE).-TB remains the second leading cause of death by infectious disease in the Americas (after HIV/AIDS), despite the important progress made in their control, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said today. The organization points out that in the Americas, still some 270,000 people, of whom 44,000 are children, become infected with tuberculosis every year and nearly 23,000 die from this disease. , However, stresses that these figures reflect “significant progress” in reducing cases in the past twenty years, as since 1990 have been reduced by 60 percent and deaths have been reduced by two-thirds. On the occasion of World TB Day, which is celebrated on 24 March, the Director of PAHO, the regional Office of the World Health Organization (who), Mirta Roses, hoped that if the countries continue and intensify their efforts can be achieved eradicate the disease on the continent in 2050. “It is my aspiration that a not-too-distant day, can all see an America free of tuberculosis”. “That goal only may be accomplished with the commitment of all”, said in his annual message on the anniversary that the German physician Robert Koch announced in 1882 which had discovered the Bacillus causing tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection caused by a germ called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which spreads through the air and usually attack the lungs. Symptoms include cough more than two to three weeks...

MADRID, 23 ( EUROPA PRESS) The Ministry of defence has published this Friday a ministerial order which regulates the structure of the health network military, which in recent years had suffered “substantial changes” reason of the agreements signed with some communities to transfer them some hospitals management. In recent years, as he cites the ministerial order, it had found that the capacities of the health network “exceeded the real health care needs requiring the armed forces”. This led to the Ministry to sign agreements with the regional Governments of Galicia, Murcia and Valencia to regulate sharing military and civilian hospitals that defence had in Ferrol, Cartagena and Valencia. For this reason, and under the new structure, the military health network is integrated by Hospital Gómez Ulla in Madrid, the pray and Gajías of Zaragoza and the San Carlos San Fernando, Cádiz. Also, also will feature clinical military in Ferrol, Cartagena, Valencia, Melilla and...

Seville, 23 ( EUROPA PRESS) The Andalusian regional Ministry of health has again defended the pharmaceutical laboratories have suffered “ pressure” and “clear threats” that they did not sign the first Convention of the auction of drugs launched in Andalusia. In a statement, the Ministry of Health indicates that these laboratories in question “have moved to the Ministry responsible for repeated pressure from officials of the Ministry of health of the Government of Spain, that did not sign the Convention”, once had been tenderer from the sale of drugs following the call of selection held the Monday. La counseling even reveals that “laboratories have pointed to Carlos Lens, Deputy general director of quality of medicines and health products of this public body, as the person responsible for making the calls that said, made on behalf of the Minister of the industry”. “Between received pressures was the clear threat to receive a resolution that opened file for revision of Office of your medications financing conditions in coming days””, full of the Ministry with regard to the content of these phone...

Washington, 23 mar (EFE).-the Raul presidential Republicans engaged today, on the eve of the primaries in Louisiana, attacking health care reform of the President of the United States.UU., Barack Obama, coinciding with the second anniversary of its promulgation. “the President is not giving speeches” on reform in this anniversary “and that is for a reason: the majority of Americans want to get rid of it and we are among them”, said Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, during a campaign in the area of New Orleans, Louisiana. El exsenador Rick Santorum also criticized the law of Obama in a statement issued by his campaign and took passage to go against Romney, who stated that “he deceived voters” with a Massachusetts health reform, when he was Governor, very similar to that now rejects. Another of applicants, the former President of the House of representatives Newt Gingrich, said in a statement that if the reform of Obama remains “no end to the power of the Government”, that in his view now has control “over very personal decisions about life and death”. Obama not made any special activity today to commemorate the second anniversary of the enactment of the reform, on the eve that the Supreme Court consider appeals by unconstitutionality against States ruled by Republicans. The White House Yes issued a statement in which the President says that his reform, the...

Geneva (Reuters) – global temperatures in the 2011 reached its greatest eleventh level since that have records despite the influence of the phenomenon of La Niña, which tends to cool the thermometers, said Friday in a report the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO). In average global temperatures in the 2011 were lower than the level record reached the previous year, but still were 0.40 degrees Celsius higher than the average between 1961 and 1990, according to the report. “the world is warming due to human activities and this is generating an impact of far-reaching and potentially irreversible above our land, atmosphere, and oceans”, said the Secretary general of WMO, Michel Jarraud. La Niña, a natural climate phenomenon linked to heavy rains and floods in the Asia-Pacific and South America and drought in Africa, was extremely active in the tropical Pacific until May of 2011. (Report of Emma Farge; additional report of Nina Chestney in London.) (Edited in Spanish by Patricio...