Month: April 2012

Montevideo, 26 mar ( EFE).-the Uruguayan Government today suspended the departure of horses abroad and races at racetracks in the country by the outbreak of a respiratory disease among copies pure blood, a measure considered excessive by the affected employers and inadequate by veterinarians. In a resolution of eight points to which he had access Efe, the Directorate-General of livestock services indicated that measures were taken following the discovery “of an illness of acute respiratory symptoms, high morbidity and low mortality in horses”. Even if the entity, dependent on the Ministry of livestock, agriculture and fisheries, reported that still no a “diagnosis” laboratory of disease, he pointed out that “there are similar cases in countries of the region (sudamericana) compatible with influenza or equine rinoneumonitis”. Precautions affect full horses thoroughbred racing but also in lesser extent to “all horses entering premises of concentration of animals”, such as auctions (auctions), evidence of horse riding, fairs and other centres or e entertainment. In such cases, the animals must have a special veterinary certificate. Next weekend begins in Montevideo the Criolla, a famous equestrian fair held at Easter and whose core activities, the jineteadas (a kind of domas), remain standing, although with these latest restrictions will suffer. On behalf of one of the undertakings concerned, the Hippodrome Maroñas of Montevideo, the Manager of the institution, Oscar Bertoletti, expressed Friday his “surprise” and...

MADRID, 30 (EUROPA PRESS) Farmaindustria supports the decision of the Government to appeal to the Constitutional Court the resolution of the service Andalusian of health (SAS) of the Junta de Andalucía which establishes the call of an auction for the selection of drugs to dispense by offices of the autonomous community in the event of prescription pharmacy active ingredient. This decision to the Executive, as he reminded employers of the pharmaceutical industry in Spain, is in line with the opinions issued recently by the Council of State, which considered that “there is violation of the constitutional rules of distribution of powers between the State and the communities”. But, in addition to invading own and exclusive constitutional powers of the State for the inclusion of medicines in the public pharmaceutical delivery and price fixing, understands that it also carries a “rupture of the equal access to the pharmaceutical provision recognised as minimum and common by State regulations”. “auctions are one case of inequity between Spanish patients depending on the community in which they reside, causing the rupture of the unity of the pharmaceutical market and creating an imbalance in the pharmaceutical provision of the national system of health (SNS), implying a serious restriction of competition for pharmaceutical companies,” assured...

Washington, 30 mar ( EFE).-the U.S. President, Barack Obama , today defended its reform health as an example of the “change” that he promised before arriving at the White House, but kept silence about the hearings of this week in the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of the law. “Change is health care reform that we adopted after more than one century of attempts,” said Obama during a rally before hundreds of supporters at the University of Vermont, Burlington. Such reform, passed by Congress and promulgated by Obama in 2010, ensures that in the U.S. “nobody will go to the bankruptcy to be sick,” emphasized President, electoral tour today in the States of Vermont and Maine with a view to the elections on November 6. Also remarked that “some 2.5 million young people now have health insurance” and that “millions of older Americans are paying less for their medicines”. However, Obama not made no reference to the hearings held between Monday and Wednesday in the Supreme on the constitutionality of its reform, called the affordable health care Act. 26 States, most Republicans, have filed lawsuits against the law, the greatest achievement of the mandate of Obama and the most maligned by the opposition. Hearings this week demonstrated that the Division of views within the Supreme, where five of the judges were appointed by Republican presidents and the remaining...

(Reuters) – people who spend much time sitting at a Desk or in front of the television are more likely to die than those who only spend a few hours a day, according to an Australian study that evaluated the mortality rates for a period of three years seated. Researchers, whose results appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found the relationship to be sitting too long and a shorter life even taking into account other factors such as the amount of moderate or vigorous exercise, as well as the weight and other health measures. That suggests the alternation between the time it is granted and soft, such as walking to slow pace or active tasks physical activity, could have significant benefits in the long term, they added. “When you give messages to people about how much physical activity should do, we need to talk about the idea of reducing the number of hours that pass daily sitting”, said Hidde van der Ploeg, lead author of the new study from the University of Sydney. Of more than 200,000 adults over age 45 years, van der Ploeg and his colleagues found that people who claimed to spend at least 11 hours a day sitting had 40 percent more than likely to die during the study than those who sat less than four hours a day. However, that no test sedentary...

Atlanta, 29 mar (EFE).-one of every 88 children in United States has been diagnosed with autism before age eight and Hispanics are among those who have experienced a greater increase in the number of cases, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention’s (CDC) given released today. “Part of this increase is because they are identifying and diagnosing more cases in our communities, although the amount that is attributable to these factors is unclear,” said Coleen Boyle, Director of the national centre of defects of births and disabilities of the CDC during a press conference. According to the report, he analyzed data from the 2008 in 14 States, the new figure represents an increase of 23 percent from the last report which was carried out in 2009 and 73 per cent in comparison with the first conducted in 2007. The number of children diagnosed with autism in Alabama 1 of 47 in Utah ranged from one of 210, reveals the report called the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders – Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 14 Sites, United States, 2008. In total, analysed information from the States of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah and Wisconsin. The report also found that upheaval in the spectrum of autism (ASD) are five times more common in boys...