Month: April 2012

Singapore (Reuters) – the habit of smoking costs the world a 1 to 2 percent of its Gross domestic product each year and it could kill nearly one billion people this century, said the authors of the fourth edition of the tobacco Atlas during the launch of the book in Singapore. Economic losses include direct costs and indirect, as medical expenses to treat diseases related to smoking and the value of productivity lost, said the authors of the book, which is published by the American Cancer Society and the worldwide Foundation of the Lung. The cost of smoking could be even greater, as maintains it one of the authors of the book, Hana Ross, saying that they are difficult to measure intangible costs such as suffering from the members of the family or the pain felt by patients. “during the 20th century, smoking killed 100 million of “ people. “It is estimated that in the 21st century you will kill 1 billion people”, said the lead author of the book, Michael Eriksen in the launch during a global Conference of health in Singapore. The world’s population has grown by more than four times in the last century, passing 7,000 million people mark the last year. Eriksen said that there are about 1,000 million users of tobacco worldwide and 360,000 non smokers die each year because of exposure to second...

now, the drug will be developed in the country, as a public-private venture, consisting of a consortium which brings together the Ministry of health, ELEA laboratories and Maprimed (owned by the Chemo group and Roemmers) and Mundo Sano. The drug will be available to those who need it through the public provision of medicines, carried out the national health portfolio. “Today is a historic day in the field of public health in the Argentina, because after 60 years of strenuous efforts in the fight against Chagas disease, I am proud to say that the paíscomenzó to produce treatment for that disease”, said the Health Minister, Juan Manzur. The first treatments are aimed at patients treated in Argentina, while that in future drugs will be sent to United States, Madrid and Barcelona in the framework of ongoing cooperation programmes, said a statement from the Ministry of...

London (Reuters) – tobacco-related deaths have almost tripled in the last decade and large tobacco companies are obstructing public efforts that millions could be saved, said Wednesday a report led by the Group World Lung Foundation (WLF). In the report, which marks the tenth anniversary of its first tobacco Atlas, the WLF and American Society of the Cancer said that if current trends continue mil million people will die this century because of the consumption of tobacco and exposure to it, or one person every six seconds. Tobacco has killed 50 million people in the last 10 years and is responsible for more than 15 per cent of all the deaths of men and 7 percent of women, found the report of the new Atlas of tobacco (www.tobaccoatlas.org). In China, tobacco is the leading cause of death – with 1.2 million deaths per year – and it is hoped that number rise to 3.5 million a year by 2030, said the report. That is part of a broader shift in which lower the levels of smokers in developed countries, but they grow in -poor regions, said Michael Eriksen, one of the authors of the report and director of the Institute of public health of the State University of Georgia, United States. “if we do not act, future projections are even “ worst. “And the number of deaths caused by...

MURCIA, 20 ( EUROPA PRESS) Institute of Child nutrition Hero Baby organized in Murcia between Wednesday and Friday, day 23, its VII training days for residents of Pediatrics, event that have gone more than 360 students from Pediatrics of Spain. Institute of nutrition children’s Hero Baby organizes these days with the collaboration of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP). The of them, according to sources of the referral Institute, aims to give a supplementary and training quality to residents of Pediatrics at raw key measures, including recent advances in child nutrition, the relationship between the diet and future cardiovascular of child health, prenatal diagnosis, diseases of the respiratory tract (surgical and endoscopic treatment) and called precocious puberty. The opening ceremony will be chaired by the Counselor of health, Maria Angeles palaces; the President of the ASP, Dr. Serafín Malaga; the head of the service of Paediatrics of the HGU Virgin of the Arraixaca and director of the Conference, Dr. Manuel Sánchez-Solís of Querol; director of Hero Spain, Sergio Elizalde; and the President of the Institute of nutrition children’s Hero Baby, doctor Pedro...

HARO (LA RIOJA), 20 (EUROPA PRESS) The President of the Government of La Rioja, Pedro Sanz, has reiterated this morning the need to “compensation”, that comes “well the country’s Basque, well of the Spain Government, without which the Rioja could not provide more services” health. And is that the health services provided to Basques “far outweigh” to which the Basque country offers to Rioja. Sanz has made these statements to questions from journalists after meeting with the mayors of Haro. It should be recalled that the health controversy broke out a few months ago when the Government of La Rioja ceased to attend patients in several Alava municipalities that went regularly to the hospital San Pedro de Logroño given its proximity. The leader of the Riojan Executive also pointed out that “there is an agreement with Castile-León, whereby citizens of Soria and Burgos come to La Rioja” and that Rioja [in less number] “[go to Castile-León]....