Month: April 2012

Washington, 21 mar (EFE).-two Spanish students today have experienced the same feeling that the astronauts from the international space station (ISS) in an environment with zero gravity, as a reward to the draft submitted to the contest YouTube Space Lab, that could also be taken to the space complex. The Galician Laura Calvo and María Vilas, both aged 15, lived an intense day full of activities with enthusiasm and with the hope that his work will be selected among the six finalists to be sent to space. If reached the space station “would be one of the best things that we can spend, because it is something we have done us, to which we have devoted many hours and would bring our very far,” said Laura in statements to Efe. Both are students of 4th ESO public school multilingual two say in Rois (A Coruña), a rural town about 20 kilometers from Santiago de Compostela, where learn subjects such as technology in English, as well as studying others in Spanish and Galician. His work, which has been selected among more than 2,000 from 80 countries, has earned them a trip to Washington and to experience a flight with zero gravity which allowed them to eat candy in the air, pass through a ring in full flight and do all sorts of stunts before visiting the Udvar-Hazy Aerospace Museum. “A...

Álvaro Mellizo Montevideo, mar 21 ( EFE).- morphine for sleep sick with respiratory problems and inoculate 20 centimeters cubic air in the veins to allow “rest” admitted to intensive care were part of the methods that used two nurses, accused of killing 15 patients in two hospitals in Montevideo. As it can be seen from the judicial indictment released today, two nurses employed these methods in its activities, considered as acts “pious” and “beneficial for humanity”. In their statements to the judge Rolando Vomero, the nurse of 46 years Ariel Acevedo, working at the Spanish Association of mutual aid and which is responsible for the deaths of ten people, said have used a syringe 20 cubic centimeters to inject a number of patients. “How do many?, it is impossible to answer, because it is not a thing to keep track.” “Did it for, what I am about to say is contradictory, but I did for humanity”, said Acevedo in the courts as it picks up the order of the investigating judge. Acevedo, who acknowledged ten people as victims in the list presented after being arrested, confessed that his performance occurred because “it was the limit” of his person by the suffering of the people and that is why he took the decision “to let the people suffer”. but spent so much time and saw that, continued and continued.” “And,...

Geneva, 22 mar ( EFE).-the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC) are mired in a crisis human “desperate” that fails to attract the attention of the world as other conflicts and that has become a “forgotten crisis”, as reported today the UN. The Director of the regional Office for the coordination of Humanitarian affairs of the United Nations (OCHA) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Barbara Shenstone, said in press conference that the DRC is a “desperate in terms of human needs, development and peacekeeping”. “There is a huge food insecurity, 70 per cent of the population – some 63 million – live below the poverty line and there are 1.7 million people displaced by the armed conflict,” explained Shenstone. Also said that there is an epidemic of measles and routine outbreaks of other diseases, while added that countrywide is facing a cholera epidemic that has spread by river basins to regions in which, so far, was not an endemic illness. Shenstone regretted that you despite this, the situation in DRC “does not attract the attention it deserves”. “Is a kind of forgotten crisis.” “You don’t have the same political profile, or somehow does not attract the attention of the world in the same way as other major crises, such as the of Middle East, Asia, or even other parts of Africa,” criticized. Shenstone regretted that the...

MADRID, 22 (EUROPA PRESS) Of clinical trials, CAIBER, Hispaniola platform and the Centre of biomedical research in Diabetes and associated metabolic diseases, CIBERDEM, network have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly develop projects and trials to achieve progress in the research of diabetes and its associated diseases. “Has established a framework for collaboration to achieve both scientific and technological advances to help improve health care, as well as an improvement in the welfare of the citizens in the field of diabetes and its related diseases”, stated the director of CAIBER, Joaquín Casariego. This Convention provides for the establishment of a joint monitoring Commission, in which there will be two representatives both CAIBER and CIBERDEM, with a view to the monitoring of the Convention. “this agreement will serve to allow the knowledge generated by the groups that are part of our Consortium to promote clinical projects to assess new drugs and new applications, to provide better care to people with diabetes and its complications,” insisted, for its part, the scientific director of CIBERDEM, Ramon Gomis. Finally, the director-general of CAIBER has highlighted the “threat” posed by the diabetes public health in Spain and in the world. “will the agreement with CIBERDEM allow us investigate more effectively in the search for the best tools to fight against this disease and benefit to patients and their families”, has been...

Madrid, 22 mar ( EFE).-the Organization Medical College has been today to the pill the day after is specified, that not prescribed by doctors, so that women could get free health centres and family planning it. Has said so today the Chairman of the WTO, Juan José Rodríguez Sendín, in press conference once the Minister of health, Ana Mato, assurance yesterday in the Senate that the three medical reports sought to determine if the postcoital pill must return to undergo medical prescription, rather than dispensing without a prescription in pharmacies, “aren’t conclusive nor coincidental”. One of these reports is the WTO, while Rodríguez Sendín has refused to explain the meaning of the same until a decision is taken by the Ministry. “the WTO believes that the emergency pill must be indicated, that it is not the same prescribed, it must be free in order to arrive to all those women who need and must be served in health or family planning centres”, pointed out. The reason, according to Sendín, is that this organization does not believe that this drug is cheaper have to buy over the internet, nor who can only access to those who have money to buy. “Believe that it is a need that must be accessible to all women who need it.” “And to guarantee to the juvenile those reasonable doubts that this drug provides, we...