Month: April 2012

London (Reuters) – A scientific team discovered how electroconvulsive therapy or by electric shock, a controversial but effective, treatment acts in the brain of people with severe depression and ensures that the results could help improve the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Therapy electroconvulsive (ECT) is performed under anesthesia and is to induce a seizure with electric current. Its reputation is controversial, in part for his role in the 1975 movie “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest” with Jack Nicholson, but is a powerful and effective treatment for patients with disorders of the mind, such as severe depression. But when applied with success in the world for more than 70 years, scientists didn’t know how it worked exactly or why da result. Now, a team of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, first demonstrated that the TEC affects communication between the different parts of the brain associated with depression. In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the team explains the TEC would control overactive connections between brain areas related to the mood and the areas associated with thinking and concentration. That, for authors, slows down the enormous impact of the depression on the ability of patients to enjoy life and daily activities. “We resolved a therapeutic conundrum of 70-year-old,” said Ian Reid, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Aberdeen, who directed...

Washington, 23 mar ( EFE).- tuberculosis remains the second cause of death by infectious disease in the Americas (after HIV/AIDS), despite the important progress made in their control, the Pan-American organization of health ( PAHO) reported today. The organization points out that in the Americas, still some 270,000 people, of whom 44,000 are children, become infected with tuberculosis every year and nearly 23,000 die from this disease. , However, stresses that these figures reflect “significant progress” in reducing cases in the past twenty years, as since 1990 have been reduced by 60 percent and deaths have been reduced by two-thirds. On the occasion of World TB Day, which is celebrated on 24 March, the Director of PAHO, the regional Office of the World Health Organization (who), Mirta Roses, hoped that if the countries continue and intensify their efforts can be achieved eradicate the disease on the continent in 2050. “It is my aspiration that a not-too-distant day, can all see an America free of tuberculosis”. “That goal only may be accomplished with the commitment of all”, said in his annual message on the anniversary that the German physician Robert Koch announced in 1882 which had discovered the Bacillus causing tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection caused by a germ called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which spreads through the air and usually attack the lungs. Symptoms include cough more than two to...

Washington, 23 mar ( EFE).-the aspiring presidential candidate Republican in the United States.UU. today focused on attacking reform care Barack Obama Government on the Eve of the primaries in Louisiana, where Rick Santorum is obliged to win to stop the streak of Mitt Romney. On the second anniversary of the enactment of the reform, the greatest achievement of the mandate of President Obama and the most maligned by Republicans, the candidates returned to promise, as they have done throughout the electoral campaign, which cease the Act if they reach the White House. “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 Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, during a campaign in the area of New Orleans, Louisiana. El exsenador 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...

Washington, 23 mar (EFE).-the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in the United States.UU. today focused on attacking health care reform of the Barack Obama Government on the eve of the primaries in Louisiana, where Rick Santorum is obliged to win to stop the streak of Mitt Romney. On the second anniversary of the enactment of the reform, the greatest achievement of the mandate of President Obama and the most maligned by Republicans, the candidates returned to promise, as they have done throughout the electoral campaign, which cease the Act if they reach the White House. “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 Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, during a campaign in the area of New Orleans, Louisiana. El exsenador 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...

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...