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Formed by companies who research, The Spanish Association of Laboratory Orphan and Ultra-Orphan (AELMHU) develop and market drugs to treat rare diseases and ultra-rare, has expressed grave concern at the extent of reduction of 15 per cent of the prices of innovative medicines, which are more than 10 years in the market and do not have generic, approved by the Inter-Territorial Council of the National Health (CISNS).

AELMHU believes that “if the government decides to implement this measure of reduction in the area of ??rare diseases, will seriously jeopardize the future ability of firms to continue investing in research to develop new drugs that address the needs health of these patients. “

From this partnership will also include noting that “saving for the health system will be minimal because, due to the low prevalence of rare diseases, spending on ultra-orphan drugs and orphan in the health budget is negligible.”

Also remember that “many of the companies that market orphan drugs are newly formed, very small in terms of infrastructure and even some of them have one marketed product. These companies invest and continue to invest in R + D + i Spain. ” Therefore, according AELMHU, “a discount applied in this area would be a serious threat to the viability of these companies, engine research and development of new drugs for diseases without therapeutic alternatives.”

“The NHS should ensure continued support in the area of ??rare diseases in order to produce efficient investment that makes available to patients in a growing stream of innovative orphan drugs,” they say from the association. So, believe “strongly” that the ultra-orphan drugs and orphan should be excluded from this reduction in prices of innovative medicines that carry more than 10 years on the market.

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.

Researchers found a way to detect whether a cancer will spread or recur, with the consideration of a certain protein in the tumor, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. This discovery may provide more precise information about the possibility of survival than the current method of classification of the stages of the disease, which is one to four, the researchers said.

If this test can be developed to be used on a large scale, for which is still years, will help doctors decide when to treat aggressively to prevent tumor metastasis, which is often fatal.

“This biomarker may be useful for many types of cancer,” said the study’s lead author, Y. Pang Loch of the cellular neurobiology section of the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

“It is very important to know when a cancer has the potential to spread,” said the expert and then add that there are currently no accurate biomarkers that can provide this kind of predictions. “The prognosis is determined according to the stage where the cancer,” he said.

This new variant of the protein carboxypeptidase’s E (CPE), which usually is involved in the processing of hormones like insulin, was discovered by scientists from the U.S. Health Institutes and the University of Hong Kong.

The protein, CPE-delta N, was found to be present at high levels in metastasis tumor cells of many cancers, including liver, breast, colon, adrenal gland and the neck and head.

The eight-year study focused on 99 patients with liver cancer in stages one to four, who have examined the tumor cells and surrounding tissue to detect the levels of delta-N CPE by measuring ribonucleic acid, which helps the body produce the protein.

When the CPE level delta-N RNA in the tumors was more than double that of the surrounding tissues, “Cancer had great potential to recur or metastasize in two years,” the study said. While at this level or below it the disease was much less likely to recur, he said the investigation.

Applying this method, scientists predicted that the cancer would metastasize or recur in more than 90% of cases and matched 76% of the time they anticipated that the tumor would not return.

In some cases, they found that the protein would indicate that cancer patients in the second stage, which would normally be considered, free of cancer and would not have received particular attention after the removal of the tumor.

A survey of 1,346 tourists in the tents that the Ministry of Health of the province settled in the Atlantic coast showed that 22.3% have a history of hypertension, 14.2% are diabetic and almost 25% smoke.

With the idea of raising awareness during the holidays for prevalent diseases and provide prevention counseling, the provincial health ministry set up for the first time, seven “medical tents” in Mar del Plata, Miramar, Villa Giselle, Panama, Mar de Ago and Santa Tersest under the SAT (Tourist Assistance System).

There, passengers answer a survey history of diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol. Also, provide a record of behavior in which snuff recorded if consumed and whether being active. Then the specialists will perform the measurement of height and weight, I take blood pressure, blood glucose and measure their visual acuity.

One of the data that most worries experts is that two out of ten respondents claimed to have suffered hypertension, one of the main predictors of cardiovascular disease.

In the first ten days of January 7, tents went to the 3044 people. An analysis of 1,346 tourists who went to the tents of Panama, Villa Giselle, and Miramar confirmed a high prevalence of hypertension and diabetes.

“The team working on the tents gives special attention to the disease with a history of providing recommendations for a healthy diet and the control of hypertension and diabetes,” explained the provincial Health Minister Alexander Collie.

The health portfolio holder added that, according to the poll, “more than 22% have a history of hypertension, high cholesterol 12% and almost 25% said smoking, conditions are true cardiovascular risk factors.”

In this regard, Collie recalled that cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the country and the province of Buenos Aires. In fact, in territory each year, more than 32 thousand deaths from this cause, includes heart attacks, strokes, heart failure and sudden death.

The lack of physical activity, snuff consumption, high sodium and saturated fats in the diet, coupled with high levels of stress are increasingly common habits that increase the risk of hypertension, one of the conditions that generate increased susceptibility to cardiovascular events.

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.

A year after the Foundation for Program Research (PRF) has announced the launch of the campaign to find the other 150 “were located 31% of new cases of program, a genetic condition characterized by premature aging children.

It is an international awareness campaign was developed in collaboration between the Foundation for Research on Program and GLOBALHealthPR; the international network of independent public relations world is largest in the health sector, represented by Paradigm Argentina Peel Communication.

In October 2009, 54 known cases of program children in 30 countries, but scientists believe that a statistically there are approximately 150 children who have not yet been identified.

Program, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome is a rare, fatal genetic condition characterized by the appearance of premature and accelerated aging in children.

The symptoms of this condition include poor growth, loss of body fat and hair, aged-looking skin, joint pain, hip dislocation, generalized atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. A child with program usually dies because of heart problems, like millions of older people.

Finding a cure may therefore be the key to preventing and treating these and other problems associated with natural aging process. PRF is the only nonprofit organization dedicated solely to finding treatments and a cure for program.

In just 12 months the campaign to find the other 150 “achieved the following results:

* we identified 17 children from 12 countries, 5 continents now know that there are children with program.

* In total 71 children know they have this disease worldwide, a 31% increase over the previous year.

“When we launched the campaign, commented that finding even one child and was successful,” said Audrey Gordon, president and CEO of PRF. Gordon said “this success is the result of a global partnership.”

“We now know that thanks to our perseverance, we can find even more children with program to offer treatments that will change your life and connect with local medical professionals and other families living in the same situation,” he added.

The Foundation for Program Research will continue its work of awareness of the disease in order to achieve more and better results through:

* Media coverage to gain greater knowledge about this disease in parts of the world where there is still no case was identified, such as Russia and China.

* Inform the media and the experts and family through pictures of children with program and explanations of this disease.

* Promote the use of tools such as Face book and Twitter by the media, doctors and families so they can follow the latest developments in research of PRF and find information about program.

“There is a close correlation between the role of the media and the identification of new cases, as happened in Brazil, where the number of children rose from 1 to 7 with the media disseminated information about nationwide “said Gordon.

The Foundation for Program Research (PRF) was established in 1999 to try to find the cause, treatment and cure for program, a premature aging disease that causes the death of children who suffer from heart attacks or stroke at 13 years of middle age. In the past ten years, research carried out in conjunction with the PRF identified the gene that causes program and to the discovery of a possible treatment for children who suffer.

A team of scientists from University College London, the National Institute for Health and Medical Research in France, and the University of Montpellier, in France analyzed the relationship between the form of food and the chance of depression.

More precisely, the association between a healthy diet and balanced and to prevent the development of this highly complex disorder that affects not only the social life of sufferers, but also “installed” in both the psyche and the body of those affected.

“Most previous work on the topic focused on the action to have certain nutrients on depression, while we take and look at food as a whole,” the investigators said the 3,486 people involved, whose average age was 57 years.

That group was divided over the five-year long investigation into two smaller biases. On the one hand, the people who ate healthy, fruits, vegetables, vegetables and fish, and those who preferred other processed foods, sugars, fried foods and dairy fat.

“We developed a questionnaire designed to assess potential alterations in mood, and established that people who chose to processed foods were 58% more likely to develop depression, compared with those following a healthy diet,” they added scientists.

“We are extremely pleased that we found a very consistent pattern of relationship between the way of feeding and the possibility of developing depression. However, further studies will be necessary to confirm definitively,” they stated.

“To which we must be very aware of is the so-called ‘masked depression’ that occurs when the mood alteration not expressed through physical symptoms such as sadness, but from physiological changes, completed the specialist.

On the other hand it is noteworthy that depression is a state of sadness or distress passenger, but a deeper problem that usually do not conform to a single cause, but many. In fact, it is assumed that the development of this disorder is due to a combination of psychological, genetic and biochemical.

Your symptoms may also vary because contrary to what many people think being depressed is not about always and inevitably to be drawn all day in bed.

Those with the disorder through various stages or moments in which usually takes possession of them has marked irritability, a deep interest in activities that used to enjoy and a great pessimism.

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.

We requested an article on the challenges we face in developing information systems that support the strategy of mainstreaming health into all policies. This is the link to the document.

Public health laws passed or pending are a conceptual and methodological adequacy of public health to current social needs, and have in common the incorporation of health in all policies. This means a new strategic approach, which will require different information systems, which must also incorporate the rapid advances in the field of information technology and communication.

The aim of this study is to identify the most relevant aspects to be taken into account in information systems in public health from the perspective of technology, both in developing as well as component items.

To overcome the fragmentation of information systems in public health is essential to achieve the integration of them with each other and with health care systems and extrasanitarios, for what is necessary to advance the technical interoperability, semantic and organizational.

The development of information systems to support the new strategy will present additional difficulties because of its size and diversity of organisms intervenes.

The Health Minister Nile Herein, introduced on Tuesday Latin American Congress of Health, to be held in the city of La Paz from 28 to 31 March to reflect on the progress of the investigation, the relationship between health, models development and social participation of 11 countries attending.

“This meeting has a value of paramount importance because it is not just a gathering of academics, scientists, doctors in the field of health, but is a meeting to discuss experiences and meeting spaces with the new trends in health, and with it all current Latin American social medicine thought debated the concept of health in the social field, “said a news conference.

He explained that the First Latin American Congress of Health: “Social Determinants and Citizenship” will be held between 28 and 31 March at the Radisson hotel in the city of La Paz, with the participation of representatives of Colombia, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Bolivia.

The event is organized by the Program for Integrated Health (PROCOSI), under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Sports and the technical assistance of the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization (PAHO / WHO).

Herein said that the Congress will deliberate on issues that determine the vulnerability of those populations that are food insecurity, climate change, disasters and emergencies that impact on health and the role of social participation.

“That’s why we are doing in Bolivia is Congress because here was generated health issue of whether space is within the health technician or within the society,” he said.

The Minister of Health reported that the Congress would help to learn about experiences and deepen the discussion “of what is to health, because not only technical but is cross.”

“So is that in Bolivia we are always concerned about that and incorporate the theme of intercultural approach on the right to health,” he said.

In this context, said it is “duty” of the Ministry of Health to carry out the Congress because it is of interest of the State and of Bolivian society.