Month: April 2012

(corrects figures, trillion rather than billions) Copenhagen, 21 mar ( EFE).- climate change could cause annual damage to the oceans by $ 2 trillion (1,512 trillion euros) by 2100, according to a report released today by the Stockholm environment Institute. That annual cost, equivalent to 0.37 per cent of global GDP calculated by 2100, takes as a basis an average 4 degree increase in global temperatures until the year. The study, baptized “Valuing the Ocean” (valuing the Ocean), estimated the loss of value of the oceans into account five categories: tourism, increase in the level of the seas, storms, fishing and ocean carbon sinks. A rapid reduction of emissions, limiting the increase in global temperature to 2.2 degrees, would mean a savings of 1.4 trillion dollars (1,059 trillion euros) of the projected annual damage. “these figures are only a part of the story, but provide an indication of the price of the avoidable portion of future environmental damage in the ocean, the distance between our hopes and our fears”, noted in a statement Frank Ackerman, one of the coordinators of the report. The study also points out that climate change is not the only threat to the oceans and suggests that the damage could be greater if converge several factors, such as acidification, warming of the water, hypoxia, the rise of the sea level, pollution and overexploitation of marine...

PAMPLONA, 21 (EUROPA PRESS) . The spokesperson of the Government of Navarra, Juan Luis Sánchez of Muniáin, opted for “respect conventions which currently are in place” for the care of patients from surrounding communities and it is “with full reciprocity in general terms conditions”. Sánchez Muniáin, asked about the approach of La Rioja, which seeks compensation for care for patients from other communities, has defended the criteria of “reciprocity and conventions for that in the first place is always the answer to the demand for patient care”. Spokesman has relied on that “will continue holding the basic health system throughout the national territory, even with the specificities of those who have attributed exclusive competencies of...

BARCELONA, 21 ( EUROPA PRESS) The Department of enterprise and employment of the Catalan Generalitat has lifted the suspension of the record of employment regulation ( ERE) of suspension by half of the template of the Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona, after considering proved that there are economic for execution causes, he has been informed Europe Pres the Department and the Secretary of the Committee of company, Jaume rock. Document of the company Department, which has had access Europa Press, resolves “leave without effects the suspension of the enforceability” of the issue of suspension of employment and salary of 15 days, which affected a 1,396 workers until end of year. The text signed by the director-general of labour relations and quality at work, Ramon Bonastre, points out that “the company continues uncredited the concurrence of the economic and productive causes that was based on the request for the file”. However, defends the dossier, “at the present time of general economic and financial crisis, it makes it priority and public interest rebalance the finances of the Generalitat and reduce the public deficit”. The ERE entered into force in November of last year and was suspended on 9 February by administrative silence, after the Committee of enterprise denounced an economic motivation is not proven. Deficit of 18 million Rock has been surprised of how precisely the week in which the Generalitat...

MADRID, 21 ( EUROPA PRESS) “every patient of active TB can infect between 10 and 15 people, if it is not treated”, warns the doctor Juan José Palacios of the unit of Mycobacteria of Asturias Regional reference on the occasion of the ' World TB Day ', which takes place this Saturday. For this reason, the Spanish society of infectious diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC), wants to raise awareness in society of the importance charged by prevention and early detection of this disease, “which remains one of the most important causes of mortality in the world”. Tuberculosis, which spreads through coughing or sneezing, particularly affects the lungs, but it can cause injuries to any organ or tissue. The most frequent symptoms are coughing up coughing, sometimes with blood in the sputum, fever, lack of appetite and weight loss, night sweating. In general, the disease particularly affects people living in conditions of poverty, malnutrition, overcrowding, and is related to other chronic diseases and immunodeficiencies such as virus HIV. Potential VACCINES Tuberculosis now boasts several vaccine candidates that around a dozen have already reached the clinical stage of the experiments. Most are based on antigens recognized by the immune system during the initial stages of infection. In particular, one of them, H56/IC3 has obtained encouraging results in animals and, this year, will begin his trial in humans. It is a vaccine...

TOLEDO, 20 ( EUROPA PRESS) The PSOE in Castilla – La Mancha has deplored the increase in the regional health care waiting lists and has criticised the “lack of transparency” of the Government of Maria Dolores Cospedal, that since December of last year have not returned to publish on the website of the health service of the Autonomous community (SESCAM). Thus said it at press conference the Deputy regional Socialist Fernando Mora, who says that this fact is contradictory with the transparency Act that wants to push the Government of Mariano Rajoy. “Here they have to learn a lot of transparency”, he added. Mora pointed out that on the website of the SESCAM remain the maximum periods of response for patients according to the law on specialized health care guarantees, that provides 90 days for surgical interventions, 15 days for consultations of specialized care or seven days for specialized diagnostic tests, but has assured that “you have exceeded in many cases”. Specifically, according to the data of the own SESCAM from May to December 2011, Mora said that Toledo vascular surgery has gone from 62 to 133 days, in Albacete in the outpatient obstetric Gynecologic has gone from nine to 23 days, that in Guadalajara have passed 21 to 111 days in the waiting time for a resonance or that trauma operations have gone from 67 to 111 in...