Month: April 2012

La Rioja 2,500 suffering from Parkinson’s and almost 4,000 alzheimer 11 April: World Parkinson’s day age is the main risk factor for developing both diseases. Personalized treatment substantially improves the quality of life of the people affected by Parkinson’s. Brain stimulation can help prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease -El Centre Cultural Caja Rioja – Gran Vía yesterday hosted the last Conference of the Hall of health in the 2011-2012 season under the title am what is happening to me? ” shake Me the pulse. I forget things. Parkinson. How to recognize? When I have to go to the doctor? carried out by the specialist in neurology, DRA. Belinda Matute Tobias and the geriatrics and medical director of Viamed in La Rioja Dr. Fernando Martín Ciancas in which specialists responded to questions that are many people arriving at the gates of old age on small disorders or changes physicists. -the increase of life expectancy, passes its Bill to an increasingly aging society with two very common neurodegenerative diseases: Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease of Alzheimer’s disease (ad) is the neurodegenerative disorder with increased incidence in middle age with more than 360,000 patients in Spain affecting 6-8% of the over 65s. Disease Parkinson’s disease (PD) appears in second place with nearly 100,000 patients affect 1-2% of the elderly of 65 years. -symptoms such as deterioration in memory to amnesia, deficit of trial...

. And produce this amount will strongly affect the medium environment to enhance the greenhouse effect. Scientists who came to such conclusions in addition, believe that it is necessary to change the way in which agriculture is practiced to meet food requirements to protect the environment. Their findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “the gas emissions of the greenhouse effect generated by agriculture could double by 2050 if current trends continue in the global production of food.” “This could be a major problem because agriculture already causes a third of greenhouse gas emissions”, explains David Tilman, ecologist in charge of the investigation has been done at the University of Minnesota, United States. Methods more green the specialist explained that the level of global demand for food is what determines how expands agriculture and, therefore, the pollution to the environment. And Tilman considers that it is possible to avoid the problems that would bring an increase in the demand of food if developing countries begin to use techniques that already take advantage at the first world Nations, that achieve a higher performance of the Earth. The use of nitrogen fertilisers would also help to alleviate pollution, said Tilman. “Strategically increase the production of crops in developing nations and the lagging would reduce the overall environmental damage caused by the production of food, and...

Rome, 31 mar (EFE).-A fault in the cooling of the Centre for assisted fertilization Chamber of Filippo Neri in Rome hospital has led to the destruction of 94 embryos and oocytes 130, belonging to about 40 pairs, said the Medical Center said in a statement. According to the note, the breakdown, which occurred last Tuesday, affected the spread of azoto liquid Chamber of conservation of biological material of the Centre, causing a rise in temperature in the facility. The hospital reported that she is are informing people that affects this accident and the director of the Centre, Domenico Alessio, he explained that he has filed a complaint against the company responsible for the maintenance of facilities by what has happened. Meanwhile, the Italian Health Minister, Renato Balduzzi, after learning what happened, send to the Center a team of inspectors on 3 April that clarify what happened. According to the media, some of the families concerned have stated that they are thinking of taking legal action....

Madrid, 1 Apr (EFE).-the Deputy of IU and spokesman parliamentary in the Health Commission of the Congress, Gaspar Llamazares, said today that both the Ministry of health, social services and equality, and its owner, Ana Mato, “have demonstrated in this short space of time a worrying political weakness”. Thus Llamazares has referred to the performance of the new Minister during the first hundred days of the popular executive action, in which, in his view, “is being revealed in sharp way that health care is not a political priority for this Government or the PP”. “Is thus repeated a similar scenario to that held the legislature passed with the PSOE, which is sadder still if we take into account the great challenges that face”, it has been argued in a press release. For Llamazares, Mato carried out its work with a “total slack” on the “big” requirements and demands placed on the table by the millions of users of health care, professionals of the sector and certain groups social and business linked to the same. Member of Parliament of IU has warned that “this remarkable lack of initiative by the Minister is added, moreover, that his Department is politically on the defensive, the worst thing that can happen in a Ministry of these characteristics”, has tempered. “More to launch proposals constructive and efficient in what seem to be dedicated is...

new YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study reveals that doctors who treat people with lung cancer do not usually warn when patients and their caregivers do not coincide in what would be the best treatment. “unless it is being done a survey of conflicts, “ something that oncologists do not, I am not surprised that they not as “ perceive”, said Betty Kramer, who is investigating the aging and care family in the Madison school of assistance Social, in the University of Wisconsin, and did not participate in the new study. Primary caregivers are the people, in general a spouse or adult child, who assume responsibilities as carry patients to medical consultations, monitoring the home-based care, provide comfort and meet the basic needs. Laura Siminoff, of the Faculty of Medicine of the Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, said that always note a disconnection between caregivers and patients above the cancer treatment objectives and the wishes of how bear him. Siminoff team interviewed 134 patients with cancer pulmonary advanced to their oncologists and their primary caregivers. Patients and relatives responded separately with How often did not coincide in the therapeutic, decisions as done or not other tests or receive care palliative. Doctors responded with what frequency perceived those differences of views. 71 Percent of the pairs paciente-cuidador replied that there were no conflicts between them, while the 11 by...