Month: December 2012

Visit of professionals of the Institute of Neurosciences. Sant Juan, December 2012.- workers of the University Hospital Sant Joan d ’ Alacant, accompanied by students and professionals of the Institute of neuroscience, Joint Center of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and the Elche University Miguel Hernández (UMH), have visited the patients admitted to the Center, on the occasion of the holiday season. Disfrazados de elfos y acompañados por Papá Noel, han entrado habitación por habitación para alegrar a los enfermos y sus familiares con sus villancicos. In addition, brought bags of candy and toys to kids admitted to Pediatrics and have distributed candy to adult patients, as well as to all the users of the Center found in its...

30% of smokers would like to quit. -in Spain there are more than 11 million people smokers -smoking is the main problem of society health and health resource-intensive -specialists consider that one of the best ways to quit smoking is through nicotine replacement therapies -having a correct diagnosis and have appropriate treatment is essential to quit smoking. Only this can increase the effectiveness of abandonment until 5 or 6 times more Madrid, December of 2012- in Spain more than 11 million people are smokers, which is more than 20% of the population smokes. The total number of smokers, 30% would like to quit smoking. The prevalence of smoking in Spain has increased 0.5 per cent despite the entry into force in 2010 of the anti-tobacco law (42/2010) ”, argues Dr. Juan Antonio Riesco, pulmonologist expert in smoking and Vice President of the Spanish society of Pneumology and thoracic surgery (SEPAR)referring to recent studies by SEPAR. Smoking is the main problem of society health and health resource-intensive. According to different studies, treatments for quitting smoking represent an optimal relationship between cost and benefit. In this sense, Dr. Riesco emphasizes the importance that the patient has with a diagnosis right accompanied by proper treatment, since this may increase the effectiveness of abandonment until 5 or 6 times more than if the patient makes it on their own ”. In this context,...

La Fundación Chiron delivers books to children hospitalized for Christmas. will deliver the book of Snoopy why, Charlie, why?, in nineteen hospitals in Grupo Hospitalario Quirón, hospitalised children or who are in emergency room these days. – with this installment of books, the Chiron Foundation wants that children who are admitted during this Christmas can enjoy a moment of reading told by a character as endearing as Snoopy. Spain, December 2012.- Today 24 and 25 December morning, Christmas Eve and Christmas, the Chiron Foundation will deliver the book why, Charlie, why? ” children hospitalized in nineteen hospitals in Grupo Hospitalario Quirón. With this installment of books, the Chiron Foundation wants that children who are admitted during this Christmas can enjoy a moment of reading told by a character as endearing as Snoopy. Love this book account history of Janice, a new girl in the neighborhood of Snoopy, that swing. Janice begins to find is wrong and fails to attend school; then, his friends learn that it is in the hospital because he suffers from leukemia. The story tells how the children live it, Janice return to school without hair and how the end is cured and may return to play on the swings. This text, which Schulz wrote at the request of an Oncology nurse who didn’t know how to explain the process of leukemia, children and friends helps...