Month: April 2012

Madrid, 10 APR ( EFE).-the popular parliamentary group has today pointed out that it is the PSOE which unknown to the figure of spending health and education, once Socialist them have been accused of manipulating this data. In a statement, the popular group referred in these terms to the statements of the Socialist spokesman, Soraya Rodríguez, who has criticized the PP by not knowing the data when the popular parliamentary Alfonso Alonso said that the 10,000 million adjustment envisaged by the Government will emerge in the 128,000 allocated to health and education. El PSOE has accused Alonso of manipulating figures and pointed out that the total cost of the Spanish public health transferred around 53,000 million euros. El PP stated that transferred health spending is 70.765 million euros, according to the OECD Health Data 2011 report, while the cost in education is 52.254 million euros, according to the 2011-2012 school year the Ministry of education. Therefore told the popular, both figures are in total 123.019 million...

Montevideo, 10 APR ( EFE).- the possibility that murdered by two nurses in Uruguayan hospitals patients can reach only other six victims was seen today with relief by the authorities after discount more than 350 complaints about possible criminal activities of the accused. The President of the National Board of health (JUNASA), Luis Gallo, told Efe that considering the huge number of complaints they received the authorities about nurses, who confessed to fifteen killings but acknowledged having acted against many more patients, six alleged murders more is not a “large number”. “The judge already prosecuted them by fifteen cases and our complaint will justice, where the judge will determine if real cases are linked to criminal activities, or are only malpractice, medical error or natural death.” “We see as the number is not so great, in a context of a murder serial with more than 300 complaints, and with only six that could have some link”, said Gallo. Likewise was expressed in statements to Efe the doctor of Uruguay (SMU), Martín Rebella, Union President who considered that “within the misfortune, the welcome that the number of potential victims is less of stipulations”. Said Gallo, the decision of the Ministry of public health (MSP) of these complaints occurred after a detailed analysis case by case that a technical team consisting of doctors and lawyers made on complaints. Of that analysis,...

Montevideo, 10 APR ( EFE).-Spanish doctors cooperate with Uruguay in the improvement and development of a programme of care for patients needing palliative care after them, at least 15 killings of inmates committed by two nurses in intensive care units, said medical sources. As today, he told Efe the President of the Trade Union doctor of the Uruguay (SMU) Martín Rebella, the case of nurses revealed the need to regulate and improve palliative care in the country and we said, we need to create a national programme to deal with the issue. To this end, shall be calculated with the help of the Spanish expert Marcos Gomez Sancho, head of the unit of palliative medicine from the Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain). “The case of nurses and psychosis that was then generated on palliative care showed that in Uruguay there are still having problems in patients critics or assistance in end of life, and that is why we should work to improve”, indicated Rebella. The idea is that Sancho Gomez visit Uruguay in the month of May to attend to generate a general program of palliative care and work with local doctors to generate a Protocol and develop activities to enhance information on the subject in society. “We can improve the patient care, and that is a response of doctors to responsibility for these murders.” “That...

Miami (USA), 10 Apr (EFE).-scientists from the University of South Florida (USF) have discovered that a protein linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease appears to regulate its own production which could lead to new ways to prevent or treat the disease. A team of researchers led by the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences and behavior of the USF in Tampa (Florida, USA)(UU.), has made this discovery in a fragment of a protein APP, according to a release from the USF today disclosed. The scientist Demian Obregan, who led the study, said that for the first time “we have a direct proof that a portion of APP, called sAPP, acts as an essential mechanism of containment”. The study has been published today in the online edition of Nature Communications. It is estimated that 30 million people in the world suffer from the Alzheimer’s disease and of those 5 million are of United States, according to the USF. With the aging of the so-called generation of the “baby boom”, those born between 1946 and 1964, expected the disease to increase dramatically in United States in the coming years. Currently there are no drugs to prevent, reverse it or stop their development, only medicines that improve symptoms for a short period, according to the researchers....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – new parents coming from American hospitals are usually take home a gift corporate along with their babies: a bag full of formula milk. But now, consumer advocacy groups want to put an end to these gifts, they consider that they undermine breastfeeding. In a letter to more than 2,360 hospitals, dozens of health organizations and consumers requested the centres to stop distributing free samples of formula milk for babies, they inserted to health providers in the marketing of pharmaceutical and food producers and that they could be considered as an endorsement. The formula give new parents disappointed to some mothers to breastfeed, they indicated the groups in a letter sent by Public Citizen. Also calls on the leaders of the industry of formula milk (a market of 4 billion dollars, about 3,000 million euros) – Abbott Laboratories, Mead Johnson Nutrition co. and Nestle SA – to abandon the practice. Hospitals aim to “promote the health of infants and mothers, but the current promotion of formulas collides with that mission,” Public Citizen President Robert Weissman wrote in the letter to the CEOs of hospitals. The action is part of a renewed effort to increase us rates of breastfeeding, which is known to be conferred a wide range of health benefits, from obesity to enhance immunity, reduce and is recommended at least in the first six months of...