Month: April 2012

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, 29 ( EUROPA PRESS) Federation national Private clinics ( FNCP) ensures that strike the day has passed “quiet” and “uneventful notified” by its partners, who have only called them to expose doubts or legal consultations on workers, as they have indicated to Europa Press from employers, which expected tomorrow having data on the follow-up to. During the week, this employer has shown its rejection of the call for general strike on the grounds that it is a measure of “political pressure against the Government and the Congress of Deputies” which really harms employers, causing “serious economic damage” to aggravate the crisis. For the Federation, “the labor reform that has led the call for strike tries to respond to the major challenges that the labour market Spanish dragging on for decades and does not reduce the labour rights of any worker, but contributes to raise the productivity and competitiveness of the Spanish companies”. Clinics, hospitals and private clinical analysis laboratories have had the usual template of a festive and included day cancer treatments (chemotherapy and radiotherapy) and dialysis during this day of strike. Thus agreed it the FNCP and representatives of Comisiones Obreras and UGT, so that the minimum services offered in these centres “ensured the maintenance of essential community service”. However, such agreement not replaces those established in each community only prevail for those in which there is...

MADRID, 28 ( EUROPA PRESS) El Hospital Universitario de Henares, belonging to the Ministry of health of the Community of Madrid, has attended in his fourth year of life 239.946 external consultations, rising 58 percent activity in dialysis on the 2010, has informed the Centre said in a statement. In total have been already addressed 773.572 external consultations since its opening in February 2008. The most important increase in activity this year with respect to the year 2010 has been on dialysis, where there has been a 58 percent increase in the number of meetings. This is due to the opening of the service also in the afternoon in July 2010 to attend the great welfare demand required by our patients. From that moment a trend upward which very predictably will continue to grow this year. In the past year have also increased significantly in relation to the activity recorded in 2010, oncohematológicos (8 per cent) treatments and other treatments that are performed in the day Hospital (20 percent), as well as the number of magnetic resonance imaging (7 per cent) and endoscopy do (9 percent). The rest of care activity has increased, although in one smaller percentage. Total income has increased by 2 per cent making 9.897 income in 2011, emergencies have increased 5 per cent with a total of 78.066 attended emergency and outpatient interventions, which have...

ZARAGOZA, 28 (EUROPA PRESS) Three teachers that integrate classroom the child Hospital Miguel Servet de Zaragoza attend each year an average of 1,000 children, to which attention individualized during their hospital stay is paid. These three professors, along with five others, make up the team of Michael Servetus, the clinician and care home, and have been distinguished with the Medal of the Aragonese education 2012. Of the sick children hospital, some require that their teachers are at foot of bed helping them with their subjects, while others can sit elbow with elbow with disease in the child classroom peers. According to one of the teachers in the classroom, Teresa Callau, explained “we adapt to the circumstances of each child and their way of learning and give them a completely individualized attention”. One of the teachers at the team, Beatriz Pardina, has pointed out that “our goal is that the child, a once it is commissioned, can join normally the school year and not lose the habit of study”. Callau has added that “we tried that the student can continue to the extent of their possibilities with their integral development, and this makes us work in three areas, the cognitive, affective and social”. This team caters for students aged 3 to 16. Most are admitted to the hospital, but “there are always some student about his illness remains in trauma...

Brussels, 27 mar ( EFE).-the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) Spanish are at the head of the European Union in efforts to be more “green”, or environmentally friendly with the environment, thanks to their efforts to make a better use of resources and the high number of jobs related to the medium environment generate. The European Commissioner for industry and entrepreneurship, Antonio Tajani, recognized the strength of the countries of the Mediterranean basin – Italy, Spain and Greece – with regard to the investment to have a few more “green” SMEs and praised the efforts of these companies in Europe, although he stressed that there is still much to be done. “is becoming more necessary to try to follow the path that takes us to the third industrial revolution.” If we want to be competitive in globalization, we need to innovate, and innovation means economy ' green ' “, Tajani said at a press conference. “ Spain is the fourth country in the European Union which has more “green” – part-time or full – jobs in SMEs, according to data from the latest Eurobarometer presented today by Tajani. More than half (53%) of Spanish SMEs who participated in the survey have at least one person working directly with information, technologies or materials that preserve or benefit to the environment, a fact that only exceed Latvia (62%), Slovakia (57%) and...