Month: April 2012

MADRID, 2 ( EUROPA PRESS) One of each three sunglasses does not exceed sanitary, for this reason controls the President of the General Council of schools of Ópticos-Optometristas, Juan Carlos Martínez Moral, recommends purchase sunglasses in optical health care. “Take not homologated sunglasses may be more harmful than not wearing any protection for the eyes, explains, in reference to which can lead to a greater amount of harmful radiation to reach the eye. “the problem is that this makes it, if the glasses do not offer adequate protection, harmful radiation penetrate further in the interior of the eye, which is more damaging to not carry any protection,” concludes. Thus, high exposure to ultraviolet radiation, especially in the coastal and mountain areas, increases the risk of severe eye disorders such as acute inflammation of the conjunctiva or conjunctivitis and corneal, known as keratitis; the emergence of degenerative processes of the ocular surface, as the Pinguecula and pterygium, cataracts, retinopathy; e, even, skin lesions, which can cause long-term serious eye health problems. “the acquisition of sunglasses in a health establishment of Optics is a guarantee that the lenses meet all safety and quality parameters,” recalls Martínez Moral. In addition, recalls, the advice of a professional vision óptico-optometrista also guarantees that sunglasses provide protection customized depending on our needs, leisure or lifestyle and everyday activities. When choosing glasses must be taken into...

MADRID, 2 (EUROPA PRESS) Experts of the Broad Institute at United States in collaboration with members of the Novartis Institute for biomedical research, just launch a comprehensive encyclopedia with genetic and molecular information about 1,000 cancer cell lines used in research and development of drugs. The results of the collaboration, published in the journal ' Nature ' and disclosed in advance on the Internet, could allow scientists around the world use this information to improve the design of the trials against cancer and advance their research. The encyclopedia, available to the public, could improve the design of the studies on cancer and allow progress in its investigation. Genetic and molecular cell lines profiles data are freely available to the scientific community on the website of the Broad Institute. Developed algorithms to predict responses to drugs based on genetic and molecular composition of cancerous cells. Match this information with forms of genotyped quickly samples of tumours of patients represents the next step in the effort to allow the personalization of cancer treatment. Cell lines were acquired from commercial distributors of the United States.US, Europe, Japan and Korea and represent the wide variety of cancer as a disease, that include various subtypes of common forms of both cancer just as frequent. To the President of the Novartis Institutes for biomedical research (NIBR, by its acronym in English), Mark Fishman, “explore the...

. Linn Sandberg, specialist of the University of Linköping (Sweden), carried out an investigation which found that many men have a positive of his own sexuality to the aging. ″Los physical changes modify the privacy and change the way in which men make love to women. The desire is present, but the warmth and privacy become more important. Sex is not the only thing for which change their priorities. As a result, they become more considered and argue that women appreciate esto″, says Sandberg. The expert says that the sexuality of elders is an issue associated with stereotypes, that older men are considered old green or non. To inquire into the subject worked with men born between 1922 and 1944, which maintained intimate relations with a woman. Sandberg noted that the aging of your body did men become asexual that but you will find other ways of making love. In fact, volunteers said they found new features of themselves and the elderly broke them new ground as lovers. ″Ellos become less selfish, more considered and more sensibles″, explains. Some volunteers stated that the age allowed them to connect with a more sensitive side, becoming more dependent on the other and opening roads to experiment with his own leather. Sandberg explained that a participant in particular not could put pressure on his legs which sought new ways to keep the...

Sydney ( Australia), 31 mar ( EFE).- New Zealand and Australia today gave the kick-off to the “Earth hour”, the global blackout of at least an hour to remind humanity of the need to combat climate change. The remote Chatham Islands, 750 kilometres to the East of New Zealand, began this global campaign which will culminate in Samoa, also in the South Pacific. In Auckland, the emblematic Sky Tower, the tallest building in this New Zealand metropolis, became in the dark during the planetary blackout, as well as the national Parliament in Wellington, the capital of this country. In New Zealand Tauranga city held a concert in the light of the candles to remember the efforts of its citizens in cleaning after the wreck of the freighter ship Rena, which last October caused an ecological disaster to shed more than 300 tons of fuel. In Australia, the metallic bridge and the Opera House, two of the icons of Sydney, were also in the dark and left the Bay of this Australian city, as it was able to observe Efe in penumbra. Also numbers have organized events in the Australian city, as a cruise on a ship of renewable energy across the Bay of the city and a 35 km bicycle ride followed by a picnic in the light of the Moon in the regional park of the West. Millions...

Asunción, 26 mar ( EFE).-the Ministry of health of Paraguay today reported two new deaths from dengue fever, with what the number of deaths from the disease rose to seven, a total of 2,486 confirmed cases. New cases of deceased are two older adults that they were suffering from chronic diseases and were hospitalized in the central hospital of the Institute of Social Welfare, in Asuncion, the health agency said in a statement reported. The source explained that from January to today were reported 6.475 notifications of patients with symptoms of dengue, which 2.486 were positive to the disease, 3.160 still pending confirmation and 829 were discarded. The director of the Office of health monitoring of the portfolio in the industry, Iván Allende, explained at a press conference that the epidemic is concentrated in Asunción and the metropolitan area, as well as in the Central Department, adjacent to the capital. “people with complication risk factors must be provided with immediate assistance and listed as priority for his hospitalization in the entire system of health care,” remarked the officer. Recommended that the elderly and people with chronic diseases involving fever “should check immediately to receive the necessary attention, for the purposes of rule to be of a pattern of dengue”. That the “aedes agypti” mosquito-borne disease that can be fatal in its hemorrhagic form, he has as some of her...