Month: April 2012

(Reuters) – many things can be done more quickly now that 50 years ago, but the arrival in the world of a baby in a way natural seems to not be one of them, according to a study of the Government United States. Compared to the 1960s, American women have passed in the last two years or three hours more in work of delivery, according to researchers at the national institutes of American health, which they said the finding suggests that doctors might need to reconsider the definition of the is a “normal” labour. According to data published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the additional time comes from the first stage of labor, the longest part of the process, prior to the phase of “bid”. Mothers are also different. On average, are more larger and weigh more, and their babies are also more large. “but even when we take into account these changes “” demographic, labour is still longer”, said the main researcher Katherine Laughon, Institute National child health and human development. Although Laughon said that the study could not identify fully the possible reasons for the difference, one of the partial explanations could be the pain relief of the anesthesia, epidural, which is much more common now that makes 50 years. It is known that epidurals can slow labor between 40 and 90 minutes. The...

MADRID, 02 (EUROPA PRESS) The Ministry of health of the Madrid has a monitoring system and information system of atmospheric pollen which includes sending free SMS to a mobile phone in the case of high pollen concentrations in the region, as reported Monday the Counselor of the bouquet, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty. To subscribe to the reception of information by SMS from the mobile phone is must remit a text message with the subject ALTAPOLEN to the 217035 phone. The SMS alert sent when expected high levels of pollen of Cupressaceae, banana, or olive, as average levels of grass. Advisor explained that this week is activated at full capacity this surveillance system to “provide systematic information on the concentration of pollen to those affected, to people suffering from allergies, as professionals involved in their care”. And is, in particular, these days flowering banana ride, more present in the cities tree and it generates a broadcast short pollen (two weeks) but of great intensity. However, there are other three types of pollen as the cypress (arizónicas), which are more common in winter; the grasses and the olive tree (present in Morata de Tajuña, Aranjuez or Arganda) are also very frequent. Lasquetty has explained that from January until June the counseling works in the dissemination of information daily through bulletins of prediction of pollen levels to 72 hours of these four types of...

you can find out up to 90% of cases thus decreasing the number of amniocentesis and its risks arising PAMPLONA, 2 ( EUROPA PRESS) Navarro health service will introduce a new programme of prenatal screening for Down syndrome that will allow detect between 80 and 90 percent of cases during gestation in the coming weeks. In this way improves the capacity of prenatal detection of this fetal and thereby is decreased considerably the number of amniocentesis and its dangers, as he explained the Navarra Government said in a statement. This new screening programme has been presented at the Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra by the Director-general of health, Cristina Ibarrola; the Assistant Medical Director of the CHN, Maria Jesus Calvo; and the heads of service of medical genetics and the service of obstetrics and Gynaecology of the CHN, María Antonia Ramos and Victoria Goñi, respectively. From its implementation, all pregnant navarras wishing to do, regardless of age, may know your risk specific to Down’s syndrome based on their personal characteristics (age or past diseases) on the one hand and on the other in its gestation (measured fold translucency and levels of PAPP-A protein in the first quarter, and determination of the alfa-feto – protein and chorionic gonadotropin in the latter). If the final risk estimate is higher than 1: 250 (high risk pregnancy) you will be offered the realization of...

Madrid, 1 Apr (EFE).-one of every 300 children in Spain suffering from autism, according to the latest diagnostic tests by researchers at the University of Salamanca and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III between children 18 to 24 months, to detect early these child development disorders. These analyses to identify diseases early are being developed in Salamanca and Zamora and already made in Madrid, as he explained to Efe Manuel Posada, the director of the Research Institute for rare diseases of this Center, which boasts a group of autistic spectrum disorders study. Tomorrow celebrates the world autism awareness day and you will hear many of the problems that have to deal with both persons who suffer, and their families, who have managed to adapt the definition of this disorder in the next print edition of the Real Academia Española. Will already not be presented as a child syndrome characterized by inability to congenital establish contact verbal and affectionate with people, but as a disorder of development that “affects communication and social interaction, characterized by restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behaviour”. The causes of autism should be sought in the disorders of brain development and therefore recent studies are influencing the possible changes that suffers the fetus and the embryo, especially in its nervous system, to see the influence they can have on the neurobehavioural problems and autism in...

new YORK (Reuters Health) – infection with the virus of human immunodeficiency ( HIV) increases 70 percent the risk for developing lung cancer regardless of the smoking, according to the largest study reveals up now on this Association. “even after considering the smoking and the risk factors “ traditional lung cancer, we find that there is a independent mechanism associated with HIV increases the “ risk of lung cancer in infected people“, said the Dr. Keith Sigel, the Mount Sinai School of medicine in New York, and author of the study. People with HIV have high risk of developing lung cancer, according to the team Sigel in the magazine AIDS. But it is unknown if it is because they are more likely to smoke or by a bias in the surveillance. Then, the team crossed the Virtual cohort data of the Cohort study on the aging of Veterans of the Central Registry of Veterans Affairs. A total of 37.294 people with HIV and 75.750 people healthy, 1.071 developed lung cancer. The rate of cancer per 100,000 persons per year was 204 in the cohort with HIV and 119 in the control group. After considering smoking, age, ethnicity, the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and previous pneumonias, the reason for the incidence rate of HIV and lung cancer remained significant (1.7). There was no difference in the stadium at the time...