Month: April 2012

VALENCIA, 27 ( EUROPA PRESS) The Valencian health, Luis Rosado, conseller explained Tuesday that the Auditors of the Generalitat are reviewing the more than 300,000 bills not accounted for, which totalled 1,343 million euros, to “proceed in the measure as possible to the corresponding payment” from this month of may. Rosado, after opening the first specific question of care and advice for people with respiratory pathology in Valencia, has explained that health keeps “informed” Generalitat Valenciana “all invoices not accounted for, that were not in the budget, long”. In fact, has pointed out that this information is conveyed through the accounts receivership, which in the last report was 1,343 million euros the amount of 300,000 invoices to the periods prior to January 2012 not included in the accounts of the Generalitat. At the moment, has pointed out that the auditors of the Generalitat are reviewing these invoices, some of them, explained, “major debts with some commercial houses and other smaller”. Thereon, has ensured that these bills would begin to be paid from the month of May and that initially the criterion will be due to age, according to the payment to suppliers plan designed by the central...

VALENCIA, 27 ( EUROPA PRESS) The 35,000 affected by respiratory disease of Valencia have a new query point Orange in which shall inform them about its pathology, them they teach to improve their treatment and will resolve them technical questions about oxygen therapy equipment installed in their homes. The Minister of health, Luis Rosado, accompanied by the health, Lourdes Bernal, Councillor and the director-general of VitalAire in the Iberian Peninsula, Philippe Lecerf, have opened this Tuesday this consultation, which will serve patients in the hospitals of the faith, the clinician, the Peset, the General, the Arnau and Manises. Rosado has explained that in this Centre, located on the Avenue of the old Kingdom of Valencia, it will deal to people affected by a chronic respiratory disease “need the servitude of an oxygen form maintained in all its forms” and who need “a periodic control of the treatment they receive, as well as comprehensive information of how it regular treatment itself”. In particular, respiratory diseases will be treated in this clinic by physiotherapists and nurses will be cystic apnea of sleeping, the pulmonary obstructive chronic disease (COPD), fibrosis, as well as restrictive diseases among others. The treatments, VitalAire offered to patients with respiratory ailments are oxygen, aerosoltherapy, handling secretions, ventilation and monitoring. The query is divided into three areas: a medical consultation for the treatment of sleep, a care consultation...

(updates with statements by Chavez and other details) Havana, 25 mar (EFE).-the Venezuela President, Hugo Chávez, is again in Havana where has already begun his treatment of radiotherapy, at a time when the island is preparing tomorrow for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. On the last midnight Hugo Chávez arrived at the airport of Havana where he was seen “very animated” off his plane and where he was received by his counterpart and ally, Raúl Castro, with “a warm hug of welcome”, said today the Cuban press. Has little passed over one week since last stay of Chávez in Cuba, where he spent 21 days (from February 24 to March 16th) by a new operation which had its removed a malignant tumor of two centimeters, recurrence of the cancer that was also spoken on the island in June of 2011. In a telephone call to the Venezuelan State television, Chavez explained that he received last night the first session of radiotherapy of the five to be submitted in the next few days on the island. The representative added that Thursday will return to Caracas. “must be in Venezuela, God willing, Thursday 29 (…) and will after two days, rather three days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, return (to Cuba) for five sessions more”, said. On this occasion, the arrival of Chavez to Havana occurs when the island is engaged...

London (Reuters) – A genetic discovery could help to explain why flu seriously ill to some people, or even provoked the death, while others seem to bear it with just some body pain, cough and sneezing. In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers British and Americans said they found for the first time a human gene that influences how people respond to influenza infections, and that makes some more susceptible that other. The finding helps explain why during the pandemic of the the “swine flu” virus of 2009-2010 the vast majority of people infected only developed mild symptoms, while than others – many of them young people healthy – ill severely and died. In the future, genetic discovery could help to the medical to assess patients to identify those more likely to be seriously affected by the flu, what it would give priority for vaccination or treatment preventive during outbreaks, stated the experts. It would also help develop new vaccines or medicines against potentially dangerous viruses, such as the of the avian influenza. Paul Kellam, of the British Institute Sanger, who co-directed the study and presented the results at a Conference telephone, said the gene, called ITFITM3, appears to be “a “” first line of key defence” against flu. When the IFITM3 was present in large quantities, the expansion of the virus in the lungs is complicated,...

they want the central executive will manifest itself clearly in the Congress on if intended to adopt the health care co-payment MADRID, 26 ( EUROPA PRESS) The PSOE wants the Government manifests clearly before the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies on if intended to adopt or not the co-payment health and hence, his spokesman in the health field, José Martínez Olmos, it will defend a non-legislative proposal next Tuesday before the plenary session of the Lower House, which asks that undertakes and manifest “expressly” concept about if going to establish the payment by Orient recipe in the autonomous communities. On the CC.AA, requested that, if the Government disagrees with the co-pay, should unauthorize the regional chairmen of the PP had expressed support for this initiative. In fact, the spokesman of the Socialists in the lower House, Soraya Rodriguez, already announced last Tuesday in a press conference after the Board of spokesmen, the intention of the PSOE in defending this initiative before the “ceremony of confusion” that his trial was issued from the Executive in recent weeks against the co-payment of health services. Among other points, he referred to the abstention of the PP in the Catalan Parliament, in the vote on the payment of a euro for every prescription dispensed in the community last week, a measure which was finally released later for its implementation underway since...