Month: April 2012

Barcelona (Spain), 13 mar (EFE).-A team of Spanish doctors practiced surgery pioneer in the world to unblock a clogged bronchus of a 26 week fetus, an intervention which saved his life and which was reported today for the first time with an endoscopy. “Thanks to ultrasound could be detected the problem in time;” “if we had not intervened it, would the girl be dead”, highlighted the press Dr. Julio Moreno, neonatologist of hospital Catalan Sant Joan de Déu, the Centre which, along with the hospital Clinic of Barcelona, participated in surgery. After the operation, the pregnancy was normal and, at 38 weeks and 2.5 kilos evolution, was born a girl that currently has 16 months and makes a normal life. Was the first time in the world intervened a fetus of a right bronchial atresia (serious obstruction of the bronchial tubes) through a tiny endoscope of 3 millimeters by trachea. After entering the apparatus by the mouth of the fetus, the specialists of the Clínic and the Sant Joan de Déu noted obstruction and her drilled with a laser, so reconectaron the bronchi and thus it deflated lung to regain its normal size. Bronchial atresia at fetal stage had described above, but in all cases not be had been able to intervene and the fetus had died before birth or shortly after birth. The operation presented today, which took...

VALENCIA, 13 ( EUROPA PRESS) the doctor Jose Mir has joined as surgeon Emeritus, consultant and researcher to the Hospital in Manises (Valencia), which will work with the hospital General Surgery service in the development of the area which deals with diseases of pancreas and liver, as reported by the hospital said in a statement. As explained, his work will be designed to contribute its expertise in the surgical field, especially in the area of hepatobiliopancreática, especially in the case of extreme surgery surgery. His career in this field “will allow to provide great added value in the implementation underway of new services and techniques in the three most important in their specialty areas of complicated biliary tract surgery, pancreatic surgery, and surgery liver, either by primitive tumors or metastases”, has indicated the specialist. El doctor Mir was the first Valencian surgeon that performed liver transplantation in the Comunitat. It has extensive international training centres as New Addenbrookes in Cambridge, the Cantonal Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland, the unity of Trasplante Hepático at the University of California, the U.C.S.F. Hospital of San Francisco or unity of Trasplante Hepático in Kyoto University. In 2002 he also began training and accreditation for transplant of pancreas in Minneapolis. The new Emeritus surgeon of the Hospital of Manises has developed most of his career in the Hospital Universitario La Fe, where he held...

Madrid, 13 March (EFE).-La Organization Medical College (WTO) agrees with the Ministers of Justice and health, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón and Ana Mato, respectively, that “no woman should be forced to have to abort the economic inability to keep your child”. The President of the WTO, Juan José Rodríguez Sendín, has been in favour, in a press conference, that has “targeted assistance” for women who do not have economic possibilities to continue with her pregnancy. “With the times this is complicated, but it is our duty to ask for it,” has sentenced. The doctor has thus responded when questioned by the reform of the law on abortion that prepares the Government and after the criticism he has received the Minister of Justice, to defend the right to maternity front social pressures faced by women because of the mere fact be pregnant. Also the Health Minister has opted for fight for women who want to be mothers “won’t be by economic, social, labour or family pressures”. WTO welcomes also that at least one of the parents or guardians of the children who decide to interrupt their pregnancy have knowledge of this fact, as he has announced the holder of justice. “Is much more the damage prevents the child, assuming that a parent knows,” the consequences which may cause “a posteriori” “trauma so important, that is not like taking a candy”, said Rodriguez...

MADRID, 13 ( EUROPA PRESS) nursing Union SATSE has complained that the Minister of health, Social services and equality, Ana Mato, has announced measures that will affect this group without its opinion on projects as the creation of a system of professional development approved in Spain, the management of the health professions or the development of a platform of innovation in this sector. Are also annoying because Mato “limit to meet” with forums such as the Consultative Committee of the national health system, held on Monday and which are not represented unions elected by the professionals at the polls. For this reason, the Secretary-General of SATSE, Alejandro Laguna, has asked Mato “complies with the law and convene the established negotiating scope to address jointly, the current situation of the national health system and solutions that improve the care provided to the citizen”. Lagoon has reminded that SATSE, Victor Aznar, President has sent, along with the head of CEMSATSE, Patricio Martinez, a letter to the Ministry which emphasizes that in law 55/2003, of December 16, the framework statute of the statutory staff of the health services, envisages the development of the field of negotiation, and it to meetat least once a year. Due to the convening of the Forum of negotiations for years, the nursing Union resorted to justice, which gave him the reason in a judgement of the Audiencia...

Washington, 9 mar ( EFE).-solar storm that is affecting the Earth intensified Friday causing some interference in the communications before refer, while experts warn you ahead more. Solar storm was intense, but the geoefectividad remained low during the Thursday due to the orientation of the magnetic field of the planet, explained to Efe Eduardo Araujo, scientific of the national administration of oceans and atmosphere of United States (NOAA). However, this Friday, “to invest the vertical component of the interplanetary magnetic field, the geoefectividad of the event has increased significantly, and the magnetic storm reached severe levels (G3)”, a climbing five. The increase in intensity has caused “extensive blocks in VHF radio”, as well as an increase in the margin of error for systems positioning (GPS) and northern lights that have seen in Seattle (Washington) and Sheridan (Wyoming), in the United States.UU., but there have been reported problems with electrical networks, said. The sun goes through regular cycles of activity and every 11 years approximately produces a peak in activity which usually produce storms which sometimes disfigure and even cross the Earth’s magnetic field. Araujo recalled that at the moment we are in the upward phase of the solar cycle and the maximum is expected to occur sometime in 2013, so “activity will continue to increase during this period”. In fact, the American space agency, NASA, has been another coronal...