Month: April 2012

Washington, 23 mar (EFE).-the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) today expressed its concern on the situation of HIV-positive in the Caribbean and asked to see a recommendation to ensure the rights of people with HIV in America. PAHO, regional agency of the World Health Organization, said at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on human rights (IACHR) that there are legal, social and political elements that hinder access to the health system and the basic rights of the HIV-positive in this region. Why he urged the independent of the Organization of American States (OAS), organization responsible for ensuring human rights in the region, to develop a recommendation inter-American so that the States of the continent to ensure the rights of people with HIV. The health institution advocated modifying punitive laws on this group, properly apply mechanisms of constitutional protection and even reforming the Magnas letters of some of the countries clauses. PAHO stressed difficulties in access to condoms, treatment of retroviral and health care in the Caribbean region, where it is estimated that there are about 50 daily HIV infections, explained the doctor of PAHO Edward Greene. His colleague Javier Vázquez, meanwhile stressed that “there is a great lack of knowledge among the judges, parliamentarians and rulers” region on the problems of HIV and on the solutions to be taken. Concerns the Caribbean, health experts stressed the serious problems...

new YORK, 23 mar (Reuters) – hypothermia intraoperative of less than 35 degrees Celsius increases more than the double the risk of infections in the area of the operation then of a laparotomy for trauma, according to a report published in Annals of Surgery. “our results suggest that the normothermia “ intraoperative should be kept strictly in the patients who undergo surgical procedures by “ trauma”, concluded the team doctor Mark j. Seamon, of the Cooper University hospital in Camden, New Jersey. Experts pointed out that the intraoperative normothermia is one measure of quality established in Colorectal, surgery but who have not studied their effects on the rate of infection in the surgical area after laparotomy for trauma. To investigate the issue, the team reviewed the results of 524 patients who survived at least four days after traumatic emergency laparotomy, including 189 to developed wound infections. The intraoperative average lowest temperature ever was 35.2 degrees Celsius and a 30.5 per cent had at least one measurement below 35 degrees, the more predictive point of infection in the wound. After controlling for factors that could cause confusion, the authors found that for each degree below 35 degrees Celsius, the risk of infection in the wound site increased by 221 percent. The experts explained that hypothermia shoots the cutaneous vasoconstriction, which leads to relative hypoxia of the wound, and this sometimes...

(www.neomundo.com.ar) coinciding with the world day of awareness about this disease, a group of researchers presented a comprehensive plan of action for the development of vaccines against tuberculosis, a disease that according to the World Health Organization (who) represents the second cause of mortality due to an infectious agent. Who details that, in 2010, 8.8 million people were newly infected with this disease and 1.4 million died of it, 95% of these deaths occurring in low-and middle-income countries. It currently has with the BCG vaccine, which applies to children in the first years of life and protects against severe forms of the disease but not pulmonary TB, which is precisely the way that is detected in most cases. The editors of the journal Tuberculosis, which devoted a special issue to the new draft against tuberculosis, explained that the only way to achieve effective solutions at the global level is to promote greater joint efforts to solve scientific puzzles currently impeding the development of vaccines against the pathogen. ″El TB vaccine blueprint provides a great opportunity to coordinate efforts to halt the advance of this devastating disease. Governments have an important role, and guided by this strategy in common we will do our part to make the vaccine a realidad″, he declared to the press Aaron Motsoaledi, the Health Minister, South Africa. The Bill published in the journal Tuberculosis details...

MADRID, 23 (EUROPA PRESS) Some 40 million people, approximately one of every three births, not score each year in any register of births by fault of barriers such as poverty, social exclusion, disability or laws or a country’s infrastructure, which prevents access to an official certificate of birth. Has thus stressed it the World Health Organization (who), which applauded the decision on registers of births taken Wednesday by the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, which seeks to promote universal registration to reduce the high number of people not registered in the world. According to the Executive Secretary a.i. Marie-Paule Kieny, of the directorate-general for innovation, information, evidence and research of HMN and who, “recent interest and the action on the issue critical but largely forgotten for the registration of births, deaths and causes of deaths could improve health, equity and commitment”. “I welcome this latest commitment of countries towards a universal registration of births”, says. For the Assistant Director-general of health of the family, women and children who, Flavia Bustreo, “the lack of a register of births not only has an impact on the enjoyment of rights that correspond to all persons, can also be an obstacle to access to many essential services, such as health”. Without data on births, national Governments would not be credible evidence that serve as a basis to plan, implement and control...

Washington, 23 mar (EFE).-the Raul presidential Republicans engaged today, on the eve of the primaries in Louisiana, attacking health care reform of the President of the United States.UU., Barack Obama, coinciding with the second anniversary of its promulgation. “the President is not giving speeches” on reform in this anniversary “and that is for a reason: the majority of Americans want to get rid of it and we are among them”, said Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, during a campaign in the area of New Orleans, Louisiana. El exsenador Rick Santorum also criticized the law of Obama in a statement issued by his campaign and took passage to go against Romney, who stated that “he deceived voters” with a Massachusetts health reform, when he was Governor, very similar to that now rejects. Another of applicants, the former President of the House of representatives Newt Gingrich, said in a statement that if the reform of Obama remains “no end to the power of the Government”, that in his view now has control “over very personal decisions about life and death”. Obama not made any special activity today to commemorate the second anniversary of the enactment of the reform, on the eve that the Supreme Court consider appeals by unconstitutionality against States ruled by Republicans. The White House Yes issued a statement in which the President says that his reform, the...