Month: April 2012

MADRID, 22 ( EUROPA PRESS) the President of the group Hefame Antonio Abril has been elected Thursday as the new President of the Spanish Federation of distributors pharmaceutical (FEDIFAR), charge was Antonio Mingorance nine years. The new President has worked as a Vice President of FEDIFAR since 2007, in a Board of Directors that since 2004 had occupied the post of Treasurer. Also from that year, April is the President of the Council Rector of the Hefama group, after having held several positions in the pharmaceutical distribution cooperative and Vice President of the group. Since 2004, he is Director of the Association for the promotion of the pharmacy (APROAFA). In these elections have been April served as representative of the Association Hefame group, one of the nine business associations comprising FEDIFAR; and Lluís Barenys representing the Asecofarma Association. After a first ballot on February 16 in which none of the candidates obtained sufficient majority to be proclaimed President. April will’s President for the next three years, but soon has to constitute the new Board of the employers, which will be distributed the six Vice-Chairs and the Secretariat, Treasury and accounting. For April, the appointment as Chairman of FEDIFAR represents an honour and an enormous responsibility. Before the Assembly, has pledged to defend the interests of all companies of pharmaceutical distribution with “rigour and honesty”. Also, has indicated its intention...

Montevideo, 20 mar (EFE).-the Minister of the Interior of Uruguay, Eduardo Bonomi, said today that the victims of two nurses charged with the murder of patients in intensive care of Montevideo units are “without a doubt” many more than the 16 initially spoke. “It is not an easy investigation”, “the work is left to the judge is important” because it is believed that the criminal action of nurses “covers several years”, stated this Tuesday Bonomi at the radio station Radio Carve. “What has been discovered is with the medical histories and the death of people in a relatively short period of time,” said the Minister, before stating that he does not rule out the possibility of crimes to soar to “more than seven years” ago. Judicial sources indicated today EfE although on Sunday, during interrogation, the accused confessed five and eleven murders each to show them pictures, “in both cases the nurses recognized have lost count”. “Still does not have an exact number or time period,” added sources estimated “tens” fatalities. As reported by the Uruguayan press, researchers of the police, which has begun to receive reports of new suspected cases, speculate with more than 200 cases, although for now it is only guesswork. Are “not going to talk about amount of cases or time limits time until we have all the information, because this has become a question...

Caracas, 17 mar (EFE).-the Minister of health of Venezuela, Eugenia Sader, today told Efe that President Hugo Chavez is being treated by a “multidisciplinary team” which is convinced that the President will exceed the relapse of cancer, which was again operated the past February 26 in la Habana. Chavez is being attended by “a multidisciplinary team that we are working together”, noted Sader without specifying the specialties or the countries that make up the team of doctors. “We are all insurance, doctors and not doctors, that he will overcome this battle as he has demonstrated”, the Minister continued. The President yesterday returned to Venezuela after three weeks of stay in Cuba, where was operated on 26 February of a cancerous tumor, recurrence of the cancer from which he appeared almost nine months ago also in Havana and that have not given more details beyond that is located in the pelvic area. Sader defended the fact that not the nature of the cancer that afflicts the President, has spread widely criticized by the Venezuelan opposition decision. “There is one thing that is called medical confidentiality and is what the patient wants to say.” “Your health privacy is private for you, it is your right to preserve,” considered Sader, who accompanied the head of State for a few days in treatment in Cuba. Said that Chavez “has made public” medical reports...

(www.neomundo.com.ar) the well-known reflection to one part of the body that hurts the hand is really useful, already that touching himself in an area that experiences acute pain alleviates suffering, he concluded a new investigation. The authors of the University College of London (United Kingdom), who published their findings in the journal Current Biology, they explained that this relief comes very coordinated changes taking place in the brain. Pain is a sensation that triggers the nervous system. Although it is very difficult to cope with, especially if it is strong, it fulfils a function that warns that an area of the body is suffering damage and you treated her with care. Relief and pain to investigate the reflection to hand a painful area, the authors worked with the so-called “thermal illusion”. Patrick Haggard said that “thermal illusion is one of the most recognized laboratory methods to study the perception of pain.” Scientists put fingers, index and ring of volunteers in hot water and plunged the finger of the environment in cold water. “This creates the paradoxical feeling of the middle toe burning so much it hurts,” allowing specialists to investigate pain without causing any real damage. In the experiment, the authors generated this pain in both hands of the volunteers and then asked that the three fingers of one hand with the other three touched. The result was that...

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela has the eye to radiotherapy which will be submitted to President Hugo Chávez, who has returned from Cuba after being operated by a relapse of cancer at a time in which intensifies the campaign towards the October elections. Soon as he stepped on Caracas, Chávez convened Saturday to his followers to the Presidential Palace, where said to give “guidelines”, a sample that will return to the electoral battle despite the doubts arising from the cancer which has been operated three times in Havana. “Missing six months for elections and breathes in the street is the Bolivarian victory on October 7.” Know this until the stones! Not going to be with us! “, said on his return Friday night in a speech about 30 minutes where he was slightly swollen but with strong voice. “ Venezuelans are expectantly before how it will react to radiotherapy and if you decide to return to Havana for treatment, despite criticism from the opposition for his frequent travels to the island, which was submitted last year to four cycles of chemotherapy. A source familiar with the diagnosis of Chávez told Reuters that their doctors manage options ranging from external radiotherapy – not requiring hospitalization – brachytherapy, which involves implementing a “radioactive seed” in the affected area and could require an income. Experts point out that some of the more common...