Month: April 2012

MURCIA, 30 ( EUROPA PRESS) Governing Council of Murcia has given the green light to an framework agreement with the Ministry of health, Social services and equality for the selection of suppliers of vaccines against seasonal for the 2012-2013 season, flu involving almost all Spanish autonomies. The autonomic Executive Joins purchase centralized with the aim of promoting disease prevention to improve conditions of life and health of citizens, as well as to assist in containment of spending and savings in costs of acquisition. The agreement contemplates the acquisition of 5.225.000 dose than 245,000 will be allocated to the community of Murcia with a price of 1.176.000 euros...

Washington, 28 mar ( EFE).-scientific international submitted today a road map for world leaders to articulate sustainable agricultural policies to ensure access to food and to include the impact of climate change as a risk factor. “food insecurity and climate change are already hampering human well-being and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems tend to deepen it,” said the Chairman of the Committee of experts, sir John Beddington. Beddington urged to take “vigorous action” to preserve the ability of the planet to “produce an adequate amount of food in the future”. Commission on sustainable agriculture and climate change seeks to emphasise the need to take measures at a time when global demand and prices for agricultural products are increasing, while nearly a third of the food for human consumption is lost or wasted. At the same time climate change has brought with it an increased frequency of droughts, floods and outbreaks of diseases, causing the loss of twelve million hectares of arable land due to the degradation of the soil, according to experts annually. In this context, the concept of sustainable agriculture “it is revolutionary, is not something evolutionary (sic), since it changes the overall perception of the agriculture and food security,” said in statements to Efe Carlos Nobre, of the Ministry of science and technology and innovation of Brazil and member of the Commission. Nobre emphasized...

ATLANTA (AP) – cases of United States cancer rates continue to decline, according to a report released on Wednesday. The rate of new cases of cancer has been slowly falling at an annual rate close to 0.5% since 1999. In total cancer deaths have declined 1.5 per cent per year in adults and 1.7 per cent in children. “This is good news,” said doctor Marcus Plescia, centres for the Control and prevention of diseases of United States ( CDC for its acronym in English), one of the four organizations which collaborated in the report “there has been a positive momentum for several years and that continues”. figures are part of a submitted report year after year since 1998 by a group of government agencies and other organizations, including the CDC and the society against the cancer of United States. The new report includes virtually every case of cancer reported in the country until 2008. health officials indicated that cancer rates have been declining due to better medical check-ups, advances in treatments and efforts to prevent some forms of cancer by reducing smoking and other unhealthy behaviors. Benefit of the efforts against the habit of smoking: in 2008, for the second consecutive year, the rate of lung cancer deaths declined in women. The rate of deaths from lung cancer in men has been falling since the early 1990s. The rate...

MADRID (Reuters) – the administration of food and medicines of United States ( FDA) requested three months more to review the application for approval of the drug bromide of aclidinio by Almirall and Forest, said Thursday the lab Spanish. “the response of the FDA is expected in July of 2012,” said Almirall said in a statement. In February, an Advisory Committee supported the efficacy of the drug, indicated to treat lung disease chronic (COPD) obstructive, and its experts said that it contributes to help patients breathe better. However, requested that companies conduct surveys to check if there are safety hazards because some patients died from heart problems during the trials. Almirall has also requested approval for the drug in Europe, where he also expects a response this year. (Report of Rodrigo de Miguel); (Edited by Robert Hetz and Ana Laura...

MADRID, 29 ( EUROPA PRESS) Federation of associations for the defence of public health (FADSP), has encrypted in “30 or 40 percent” casualties in the health centres with reason of the General strike of 29 March Thursday, as he has explained his spokesman Martian Sánchez Bayle. This Association had already announced its support for the break because “people’s health is at stake”. . The representative of the Federation has assured Europa Press that the strike of the day “has had more impact than the previous”, held in 2010. This, said that persons who want the right to protection of health remains a right to exercise in Spain, “have to massively support this mobilization whilst there is no much impact on health” normally. Sánchez Bayle also welcomes that there have been incidents, now it “as was to be expected”, the minimum services “have met scrupulously”. For this reason, considers that “there will be the same complaints of patients to a festive day as it was on the day of San José”. In his view, the strike is justified by adjustment measures developed by the PP Government, which “have increased the social inequalities that are the cause of greater inequalities in health”. In particular, the reform imposed by the Government is “harmful” to the rights of workers and, especially, in the field of health, “insofar as it facilitates the dismissal for...