Month: April 2012

BARCELONA, 15 (EUROPA PRESS) Around 300 specialists in Pulmonology and thoracic surgery have started Thursday in Barcelona VIII Symposium of respiratory diseases, which aims to delve into the personalized treatment of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A key speech specialists that focus is the differentiation by phenotypes of patients with COPD, that may be a step forward for the election of a more appropriate treatment, reported the Organization of the meeting through a press release. The recent discovery of multiple phenotypes enabled to understand COPD as an inflammatory disease of a general nature, but it leaves way personalized to the quality of life of patients. Customizing the treatment also is vital to reduce cardiovascular disease, which show a higher prevalence among COPD patients. Symposium will also analyse the latest developments in bronchoscopy, tuberculosis and lung...

Madrid, 15 mar (EFE).-near forty social and trade union organizations gathered on the platform in defence of the State of welfare and public services have today called on the Government to submit an action of unconstitutionality against the law passed yesterday by the Catalan Parliament that sets the co-payment in recipes. In a statement, this platform considers that “repayment” or the “co-pay” in pharmaceutical delivery exceeds the powers of the Parliament of Catalonia because it’s an “exclusive competence” of the Government, as laid down in the laws of health, medication or cohesion and quality of the national health system. In his view, in addition, compelled to pay a euro by prescription, albeit with exceptions, is an “assault” on the population groups with more needs of healthcare and a worse economic situation. The draft was adopted thanks to the abstention of the Catalan PP, which is why platform warns that “the Government is thinking about its future implementation widespread in all Spain”. The platform in defence of the public services and the welfare State was created last month and they participate in it as UGT and CCOO unions and organizations as the Coordinator of development Spain...

Madrid, 15 mar (EFE).-the Government today announced the consumption of the autonomous communities responsible for the unification of the National Institute of consumption (INC) and the Spanish Agency for food safety. Minister Ana Mato has communicated this decision to regional leaders at the meeting of the sectoral Conference of consumption, which has met today for the first time in the legislature, also coinciding with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the world day for the rights of consumers. The new agency, as reported by the Ministry after the sectoral Conference, will contribute to the rationalization in the use of public resources and bring the Spanish model to the European, that the new agency will follow the example of European Directorate-General of food safety and consumer. The unification of these two bodies, according to this source, allows also the participation of associations of consumers in the field of food. The Minister reported in addition to regional leaders of the next Bill of customer service, which among other things will regulate the operation of the offices of companies customer. In addition, shall be laid down criteria for information and transparency which should offer companies in the precontractual phase and also in claims and for the settlement of disputes between a customer and a company, reported the Ministry. One of the novelties will be that claim procedures may be always carried...

(www.neomundo.com.ar) the balanced diet is fundamental to health, to the point that postmenopausal women who do not eat properly are at high risk of developing anemia, concluded a new investigation. “Overall mortality increases with anemia.” “In addition, this disease is associated with a reduced capacity for physical labour, physical inactivity, injuries related to falls and the International Hospital, so anemia should be taken into account to aging”, said Cynthia Thomson, of the University of Arizona, Tucson (United States). LA ANEMIA the most common cause of anemia is the lack of iron, a mineral present in legumes, eggs, liver, meat, certain types of fish and seafood, among other foods. This nutrient is used to produce hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells from the blood whose function is to distribute the oxygen to all the cells in the body. When there is no sufficient hemoglobin oxygen fails in the required quantities and therefore symptoms such as weakness, fatigue, dizziness, irritability and cold. Food that oxygenates The authors worked with 72.833 postmenopausal women and analysed their eating habits, discussed what nutrients are missing and viewing this information with the incidence of anaemia. Thomson observed that the volunteers with a nutrient deficiency had a 21% increased risk of anemia, while the danger rose to 44% in those with deficiencies in three nutrients. Should “be increased effort to identify anaemia caused by modifiable...

new YORK (Reuters Health) – more than 26,000 children and teenagers are injured each year in farms of States United, which equates to a cost of 1.4 billion health of dollars, according to a study published in Pediatrics. Less than a third of the accidents were labour; 84 were fatal. The estimate, the first on the amount of injuries children’s fatal and non-fatal associated with life of American farm, was carried out with the results of the surveys 2001-2006 of paediatric injuries in the field. Fatal injuries accounted for about 420 million of dollars, including lost wages and the value of pain and suffering. “The cost of Pediatric injuries in the field is huge “ and compared to the costs of the risks, as the unintentional child poisoning or work-related injuries “ with needles”, reported the team of Eduard Zaloshnja, of the Pacific Institute for research and evaluation in Beltsville, Maryland. In 2001, 1.1 million children and adolescents States United lived on farms. 14 Percent of injuries needed hospitalization, compared with 1.4 per cent of the Pediatric injuries in the country. “Injuries at work in the field tend to be more “” serious injuries in other populations than”, said Dennis J.. Murphy, expert on agricultural work safety of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and not participated in the study. “Are common due to the equipment that is used and...