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Today, nearly 2.5 million people live in different regions of the world where there is risk of dengue infection. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are between 50 and 100 million cases per year, 500,000 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever and approximately 22,000 deaths, mainly in children.

There are four types of dengue virus and infection caused by one of them does not confer protection for the rest. Therefore, it would be necessary to prepare a combination vaccine can provide protection against all four types.

So far, there have been several clinical research studies and have made significant progress in the development of several safe and effective vaccines.

The Sarnoff Adventism is working on developing new vaccine candidates. Recently completed studies in children have shown that providing adequate protection, with adverse effects mild and infrequent.

Another ongoing research, also done in children, is considering similar issues. If these results are also achieved favorable, the new vaccine will probably be passed in a period of five years.

A mole is an abnormal spot very small, which grows on the skin. It is a benign lesion composed of melanocytes, cells that produce skin pigment. They may appear singly or in groups, with each mole has different growth pattern, but not all brown spots on the skin are moles.

Everyone has moles. Some are born with more and develop new ones until age 30, including up to 40. The vast majority of people have between ten and thirty spots. Some people are born with a predisposition to them, in some cases it is a family-genetic trait.

A normal mole has sharp edges, round or oval shape, is flat or rose, and often has different sizes, but usually is less than 0.63 inches in diameter. The color of the moon can vary from pink or very light brown to dark brown. As the years pass, some moles may increase in size, acquire a clearer, and pale. This change is especially noticeable in the face. They can also increase because of sun exposure. At some stages of life often, grow in number and size, as occurs during puberty and pregnancy.

In general, most moles appear during the first 30 years of life. It is very important to pay attention to those that arise after that age and make them see a dermatologist. Another crucial point is to observe any changes occurring in a preexisting mole. If it bleeds, itches, is growing too fast, so scaly or crusted, you must go to the specialist to observe and perform the clinical examination. The same applies to the case of a sore that does not heal or not heal small wounds.

Some moles can become the gateway for skin cancer. There are different types of skin cancer. Melanoma is one of them. May begin as a mole or in an area that changes its appearance. Are the least common of skin cancers, but the most aggressive and therefore the more dangerous?

The spots were examined clinically with different tools. Definitive diagnosis may be required to do a biopsy, removing a mole and examined under a microscope. If they are not examined, cells from the skin can spread to other tissues and organs.

Atypical moles or large should be examined by a dermatologist annually and / or to any change. Those with increased risk of skin cancer should regularly check their moles. Additionally, we recommend the entire population to avoid excessive sun exposure and use sunscreen with an SPF of greater than 15.

Most skin cancers develop in those parts of the body permanently exposed to sunlight, head, tips of the ears, neck, face, hands, shoulders, forearms. In men must also pay attention to the chest. In women, lesions may appear in the lower back and legs.

Syndrome Post-Holiday Stress can cause sadness, apathy, depression, and tachycardia, shortness of breath, blood, muscle aches and stomach problems and, as experts estimate, affects young adults between 25 and 40.

Patricia Hanson Gabby, director of Hem era, Centre for Studies on Stress and anxiety, said, “A syndrome is defined as a pathological condition associated with a series of concurrent symptoms, usually three or more.” Gabby of Hanson remarked, “Post-holiday stress, as his words indicate, is the stress that comes after the holidays.”

“Although it is accepted as the major disease classifications, is being given increasing importance. Some authors think that this is just a temporary situation that disappears when the person passes the process of adapting to the new situation. For example again work and daily routines in the case of adults and children for back to school, “said the expert.

Also, the specialist said that when the adjustment process fails “generated a series of physical and psychological symptoms” and added that these symptoms, if they last over time, “can affect the quality of life of the sufferer.”

“This table insomnia with marked daytime sleepiness, poor concentration, apathy regarding the tasks that must be faced and anxiety. They can also appear sadness, apathy, depression, tachycardia, shortness of breath, blood, muscle aches and stomach problems, “he added.

Hanson Gabby emphasized that the main cause of this syndrome is the change in the daily rhythm disturbance of the biological clock “and that” during the holiday pace of life suffers a significant change. ““Generally we go to bed later and so does the time to get up. There is a total mess in our habits and our routine. The power varies as well as our social activity,” he said.

The specialist said, “Back to life every day means a sharp change for our organization.” “If we add to this lack of motivation at work or activities to be undertaken to return, the subjective experience can be very negative. The combination of both situations can lead to post-holiday syndrome,” he said.

The specialist said that the most exposed population is young adults “aged between 25 and 40 years.”

“Thumbelina Robles Ortega, a researcher at the University of Granada, said that 35% of Spanish workers have post-holiday syndrome,” he said.

The Minister of Health of the Junta de Andalusia, Maria Jesus Montero, said Thursday that the death of several babies at the Hospital Virgin del Rocco de Seville, which has been denounced by the family to suspect that might have been given to other families is certified.

Montero explained that, although it has been more than thirty years, the Seville hospital found the documents certifying the practice of autopsies in all cases reported.

The counselor has advised families who have some doubts about the death of her baby who come to health centers where they attended, since in many cases can recover medical records, which should include reports on the progress of labor and the “sheet for the autopsy.”

Hospital Virgin del Rocco de Seville announced on Wednesday that their histories found the autopsy reports for two from 1977 and 1979, reported by two families of Uteri and Monte llano.

As underlined by the Andalusia Health Service (SAS), these documents are “public, has no legal value and certify the date, time and reasons of death” after the postmortem study of the body, which was made with “gross and scans microscopic all organs examined by specialists.”

The Virgin del Rocco Hospital, which has put this documentation available to “any judicial authority on request”, he assured that attend to “personally” to those families who are “in a situation of doubt.”

The current technological changes do not result in loss of time arguing about whether Internet citizens should have equal rights or different from those that is in the physical world. The current time and speed of change demands action.

Last November, Australia has published a new draft, which considers its Privacy Principles, which are the source of a series of reforms to current laws and regulations on the protection of individual rights, adapted to the XXI Century.

While Australia is not the only country which seeks to adapt its regulations to current technological changes, is one of the few countries that makes it continuously over time, influenced if, for international movements and guidelines of the Organization for Cooperation and European Economic Development (OECD) since the ’80s but, above all for your interest in providing its citizens protection tools with the times.

The proposed amendments to the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) seek to offer current regulations the following qualities:

* Consistency, simplicity and clarity so that it is easy to understand and apply in practice.
* Technologically neutral is not that “tied” to a technology available today but that could be quickly replaced in the future. This also implies the use of neutral language.
* Fair with the principles and obligations of agencies and governmental and private organizations.
* Adapted to the legislation “cross-border”, i.e. the personal information that may be trafficked between different countries (transnational) to apply the principles that govern the Internet.
* Providing legal tools to facilitate the court’s evaluation of new forms of commission of crime.

Health Secretary Jellico, Alfonso Petersen Farad, said he was “grateful” to the local members of Congress by his call for next week appears before the Health Law Committee, to explain the alleged irregularities in the bidding for Saguaro Popular medicines.

“It is important that Members have a first-line, first hand, the different actors that are involved in each process, to have a proper approach and can make determinations as appropriate.”

Rather than go to account, will be a visit that will enrich the information available on the subject, so as not to make false speculations, the official said.
On the same theme and supply of medicines dispensed to beneficiaries of the Saguaro Popular, the secretary shall keep lawmakers about the challenges and strategies are for 2011.

After the statements by various politicians and business leaders on alleged irregularities in the bidding process for the Ministry of Health Jellico (SSJ), Petersen Farad says that this is disinformation.
“The misinformation does not pay anything positive, the most interesting is that things are objectively, and we can make better decisions that benefit the health of people, I think histrionic statements, the accusations do not pay anything for health or the country.”

After Dimes company won the tender process for distribution and supply of drugs to the Jellico Health Secretariat, the Court of the State Administrative (SAR) issued a few weeks ago ruled in favor of the company The Medic, and ordered extend the contract with it until 28 February, so it will be the sole supplier for the purchase of medicine for the Saguaro Popular.

In addition, the audit made by the Internal Comptroller of the SSJ in schools in which the company distributes drugs Medic the Saguaro Popular, was with some irregularities, so it will earn penalties, but did not say how much.