Month: April 2012

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...

MADRID, 30 (EUROPA PRESS) Farmaindustria supports the decision of the Government to appeal to the Constitutional Court the resolution of the service Andalusian of health (SAS) of the Junta de Andalucía which establishes the call of an auction for the selection of drugs to dispense by offices of the autonomous community in the event of prescription pharmacy active ingredient. This decision to the Executive, as he reminded employers of the pharmaceutical industry in Spain, is in line with the opinions issued recently by the Council of State, which considered that “there is violation of the constitutional rules of distribution of powers between the State and the communities”. But, in addition to invading own and exclusive constitutional powers of the State for the inclusion of medicines in the public pharmaceutical delivery and price fixing, understands that it also carries a “rupture of the equal access to the pharmaceutical provision recognised as minimum and common by State regulations”. “auctions are one case of inequity between Spanish patients depending on the community in which they reside, causing the rupture of the unity of the pharmaceutical market and creating an imbalance in the pharmaceutical provision of the national system of health (SNS), implying a serious restriction of competition for pharmaceutical companies,” assured...

Atlanta, 29 mar (EFE).-one of every 88 children in United States has been diagnosed with autism before age eight and Hispanics are among those who have experienced a greater increase in the number of cases, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention’s (CDC) given released today. “Part of this increase is because they are identifying and diagnosing more cases in our communities, although the amount that is attributable to these factors is unclear,” said Coleen Boyle, Director of the national centre of defects of births and disabilities of the CDC during a press conference. According to the report, he analyzed data from the 2008 in 14 States, the new figure represents an increase of 23 percent from the last report which was carried out in 2009 and 73 per cent in comparison with the first conducted in 2007. The number of children diagnosed with autism in Alabama 1 of 47 in Utah ranged from one of 210, reveals the report called the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders – Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 14 Sites, United States, 2008. In total, analysed information from the States of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah and Wisconsin. The report also found that upheaval in the spectrum of autism (ASD) are five times more common in boys...

Zaragoza ( Spain), 30 mar ( EFE).-A 70 percent of smokers have alterations in the arteries, as it finds a cardiovascular prevention study involving almost 6,000 workers Spaniards, whom they were taken already 280,000 samples of DNA, blood, serum and urine. Research, so-called “Aragon Workers ' s Health Study”, it occurs from three years between the Aragonese Institute of Health Sciences (IACS) and the national centre of cardiovascular research (CNIC), and is intended to meet, since its inception, the evolution of cardiovascular diseases, said today its Coordinator, José Antonio Casasnovas. The researcher noted in press conference that the Studio, the largest in Europe and uses very innovative techniques, reveals that 40 years are beginning to see alterations in the arteries, so the arterioresclerosis is “earlier” than I thought. However, it is unknown whether these alterations are natural, physiological or will condition a disease, which is what they now have to analyse, added. Of the participants in the study (workers at the plant of General Motors in Figueruelas, Zaragoza), 30 percent have hypertension, the 25 per cent obesity and 3.5 percent diabetes, said Montserrat León, the IACS and clinical Coordinator of the project. According to Lion of 500 women studied in that group, 45 percent were smokers and men, 37 percent. Researcher referred to smoking as the main responsible for cardiovascular disorders. In fact, the research found that 70 percent...

London, 30 mar (EFE).-scientific British have discovered an enzyme which medications to combat acute myeloid leukemia, a very aggressive cancer with a percentage go low survival, explained to Efe researcher Tim Somervaille. 2.380 Cases of this disease, which produces a decrease in red blood cells and platelets in the blood and whose incidence increases with age are diagnosed each year in the United Kingdom. Currently, 40 percent of the patients under sixty years achieved disease survive five years or more after having been diagnosed. A team of Paterson Institute for Cancer Research at the English University of Manchester discovered that this enzyme, called LSD1, helps to control if the genes responsible for this cancer are activated or not. According to the experts, block this enzyme would prevent the production of proteins that drive the disease, which is a “totally new” approach in dealing with this ailment, as detailed Somervaille, of the public organization, Cancer Research UK. Thanks to this finding, this agency experts managed to curb the growth of the leukemia cells in samples taken from mice and human, for which he used a set of molecules that stopped the activity of the enzyme responsible for. “Have found a new target, an enzyme in cells, where it inhibits causing leukemia cells stop growing.” “We are very excited,” said Efe Somervaille, following the publication of an article on the study...