May 18

Health Insurance Funds

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Similar to the Green health expert Elisabeth Scharfenberg argued. «I think you should link the organ donation with the sensitive issue of data protection in the health card,» she said of the dpa.

This unfairly organ donation. The draft law provides for «that the health insurances on request one get insured access to application hints and explanations to the donor is ready»

On Friday (May 25), the Bundestag free vote will finally discuss on reform. The Transplant Act to commit the private and statutory health insurance funds to send information material and a donor card to all insured persons over 16 years of age. The aim of this decision solution is that as many people deal with the sensitive issue – and decide.

There are currently around 12 000 patients on the waiting lists. Every day, three people who are on the list die on average. It is also planned that the hospitals must have the transplant coordinators.

Montgomery made it clear: «The decision solution brings an improvement.» The doctors welcomed the changes for the hospitals: «We want that this law is coming.»

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May 18

Health Organization

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The national campaign immunized influenza vaccination 25% of the population of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The coverage is still considered low because the goal established by the Ministry of health is to vaccinate 80 per cent of target audience, made up of elderly with 60 years or more, children six months to 2 years, pregnant women, and indigenous health workers. These groups add up to nearly 3 million people in Rio de Janeiro.

In 92 municipalities in Rio, 78% of indigenous people were immunized; 33% of children, 26.5% of health workers; 25.2% of pregnant women 23.2% of elderly and The campaign runs through May 25 day and people should look for the nearest health clinic.

Broadest coverage

In the metropolitan region I, the town of Nilópolis, which always has the largest vaccination coverage so far, with 36.7% of vaccinated target audience. In the Metropolitan II, Silva Jardim is looking more vaccinated proportionally (51.7%). Fluminense in the North-West, Porziuncola already immunized 57.5% of its population. In the North, Conceição de Macabu (48%) and, in the mountainous region, São José do Vale do Rio Preto (49%). In Coastal Marshland, Casimiro de Abreu vaccinated 48% of its target population. In the middle of Paraíba, Piraí 49% of immunized. Finally, in the Centro Sul, Comendador Levy Gasparian is very close to the goal, having vaccinated 71% of its population and, on the South coast, Mangaratiba is 57% with vaccination coverage.

-Vaccines are being delivered properly by the Ministry of health to the municipalities, all have sufficient quantities. We reiterate the call to people so that they appear to receive the health clinics and immunization – epidemiological surveillance Coordinator alert of SES Vassoler, Rita.

Until May 25, the campaign will be extended by 4,200 fixed vaccination posts and steering wheels throughout the State, involving 25 thousand professionals and 2,800 vehicles. The vaccine, trivalent, has the same composition of used the last campaign, held in 2011. For this reason, children who were vaccinated last year should receive just one dose this year. In the last campaign, 85 of 92 municipalities in the State of Rio reached the goal of 80% recommended by the Ministry of health.

Prison population

After the campaign period, there will be the vaccination of the prison population of the entire national territory, an articulation between the State and municipal health Secretariats and Secretariats of justice.

Contra-indication

The only contraindications are allergy to vaccine components, mainly due to egg protein, and persons with neurological diseases. It is noteworthy that people who can eat fried egg, bread, cake or noodles do not have this allergy. Anyone with flu or febrile State presented or symptoms of dengue, the recommended is expected to improve, then vaccinate.

The immunizing must be taken every year. The choice by the autumn period for implementation, because the vaccine is strategic needs two weeks to induce some protection and four to six weeks for maximum protection is achieved. As winter is more virus circulation period, taking the vaccine in the fall ensures maximum protection in wider circulation of influenza viruses.

According to the World Health Organization (who), vaccination is the most effective way to prevent the flu and its complications. Each year, more than 150 million people are vaccinated against influenza in countries around the world, including Brazil. Caused by the Influenza virus, flu strikes every year between 10 and 20% of the world’s population – somewhere around 600 million people. If not treated, can lead to complications that cause between 250 000 and 500 000 deaths per year and a million admissions. The most common complications are pneumonia, ear infection (otitis media) and inflammation in the bronchial tubes (bronchitis).

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May 18

Minister Of Health

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The Basque Health Department will keep the health card with “whole portfolio of services” collective irregular and other immigrants affected by the Royal Decree approved by the central Government on 20 April and validated this Thursday in the Chamber of Deputies.

The decree aims to save more than 7 billion euros in the national health system and includes performances as the pharmaceutical co-payment, which for the first time will have to shoulder the pensioners, and measures to control the “health tourism” as the withdrawal of the card to illegal immigrants.

At a press held in Bilbao, the Deputy Minister of health, Jesús María Fernández, is committed to “give the whole portfolio of services” of Osakidetza groups they will lose their right to health insurance card.

In the Basque country, the number of affected would be about 40,000, according to Fernández: 22,000 registered immigrants without residence permit, 13,500 young people over the age of 26 years who have not agreed to their first job, 800 divorcees in demand for their first job and 3,500 disabled persons who have not yet worked for the first time.

The Deputy Minister has explained that the Basque Government will support “in the legislation in force” for not applying the Royal Decree and has cited the Spanish law of September 2011 and the Basque Decree of 1988, two rules “ensuring the universality of health”.

“This is the existing framework and we will let you assert, as well as self-government”, stressed Fernández, who is committed to provide collective which fall outside the coverage with the Royal Decree validated this Thursday with a card with “the same coverage as the rest” within Osakidetza, although it is not valid outside the Basque health public system.

Fernandez has assured that the implementation of Royal Decree saturará emergency services because only care to be provided to the above-mentioned collective will be that of emergency, that it will aggravate diseases them will Chronicles by “lack of attention” and this will entail higher costs to the system.

In addition, it has ensured that the data belie that immigrants “abuse” the system and as an example he pointed that immigrants come each year to the doctor 6.4 times per 11.1 of the Spaniards and that drug consumption is 96.5 euros compared to 446 nationals. The single paragraph, has explained, with increased use of foreigners is ER (16%).

Fernández has participated this late in an encounter with associations of groups affected by the cuts, which has also taken part the Association for the right to health, Osalde.

Its President, Juan Luis Uria, has announced that this group will propose to doctors “ethics in the consultations objection” because, apart from what happens at the institutional level, the professional groups need to work with normal humanism and the usual ethics of medical consultation.

They have also taken part in the meeting, the Federation of associations of people with decreased Heldu, Gazte Kanpusa University Association, the Association Parkinson Bizkaia, Red Cross and doctors of the world, as well as the Basque Institute of the Emakunde women and the Immigration Directorate of the Basque Government.

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May 18

Ome, 17 May. (adnkronos)-the Italians Feel Threatened

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Rome, 17 May. (Adnkronos)-the Italians feel threatened by politicians. They are afraid, they do not see exit routes to the crisis, they feel hunted. The answer to this really can’t be that depression and anger inconsulta. Stress and anxiety run rampant. A disarming picture that emerges from a new study of Eurodap, European Association for panic disorders on how the Italians are living this long period of crisis. “The 500 people between 18 and 65 years old, who took part in our survey, 80% said he was preoccupatissimo to the current crisis situation that is experiencing the Italy-says Paola Vinciguerra, psychologist, psychotherapist, President Eurodap – among people there is fear, anger, and in many cases even guilt. The thoughts that we build in this situation hardly alarm may be positive when we have no more hope. Who guides us, the politician, is perceived as an enemy and not as a protector and the future can only be threatening. The desire for improvement, that commitment would be needed at this time to find alternatives and solutions, is completely undone by fear, anxiety and depression “.Only 3 out of 10, in fact, believe they invent something else it would be helpful to overcome this bad time that is experiencing the economy. Two out of ten are hoping that the Government can find solutions, while the rest, unfortunately the majority, sees no chance to find ways out to overcome this difficult moment. “The psycho-social situation that the poll should reflect-says the expert-especially politicians, because a State composed of citizens frightened, depressed, angry, and closed living daily feeling of threat, no enthusiasm, hopeless, is a paralyzed, that will not have resources and energies in order to cope with the difficulties”.The poll shows that 60% of people feels threatened and assaulted by the daily decisions made by Government. Only the 30% you say quiet and feels protected by politicians who are trying to put the motorcycle in Italy. To the question ‘ what would the Government do to encourage the resumption of our country? ‘ people have gone on concrete: “40% does not accept as absolute the Government with new taxes put hand on House property that most people have made great sacrifices – explains the Vinciguerra-30% would like to see the Government help people to find new alternatives and the other 30% who supported psychological all those who feel culled and endangered “. According to psychotherapist “demand that emerges from the survey is to be accompanied, encouraged. Citizens demand that their is a proposed road which reasons and that can give new hope “.

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May 17

Diet And Health

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At one point, the researchers are sure: on the caffeine, it may not be. Because their data according to coffee affect health decaffeinated and ordinary alike. If so protect substances from the hot drink a bit of heart disease and other illnesses, there must be others as the caffeine responsible for the effect of the stimulant.

Neal Freedman of the national institutes of health of the United States and his colleagues analysed information from approximately 229,000 men and 173,000 women that since the mid-1990s at a major study (NIH-AARP diet and health study) had participated. All had a questionnaire with various information about their lifestyle filled in at the beginning – eating habits, alcohol consumption, sports programme, and much more. At the beginning of the study, the participants between 50 and 71 years were old.

By the year 2008, 52.515 participants, like the explorers died in the “New England Journal of medicine” report. Freedman’s team now calculated whether coffee drinkers rather or later were killed as the participants who consumed preferably other beverages.

In fact they died sooner. However, coffee drinkers is grievous also more frequently than sports muffle and as regular alcohol users – in addition they spurned more fruits and vegetables and ate more red meat. The most striking correlation: 4.8 per cent smoked from the men who drank no coffee at all. There were, however, 34.7 percent of smokers in the group with the highest consumption of coffee (daily six cups or more). For women, there were 8.1 and 48.1 percent, respectively. The bottom line was so – once again: he who drinks coffee, overall rather unhealthy lives.

More helpful than harmful

To find out whether the coffee represents only a more harmful habit or a rather positive effect, the researchers were just listed and other well-known factors out. So they came to the conclusion that coffee protects rather than harm.

“In comparison to men who consumed no coffee, had men, the six or more cups a day drinking, a ten per cent lower risk, during the study period to die”, the scientists write. In women, the risk even by 15 percent declined. A result that confirmed similar earlier studies.

Whether or not the coffee contained caffeine played no role. Possibly contained antioxidants are in the hot drink positive, scientists speculate.

Like all studies based on it, once to ask people to their way of life and to gather data, then for many years to be seen, there was the problem that no one can be sure in the end that really the coffee made from the observed difference. Perhaps there are other behaviors that are different from non-unpatriotic coffee drinkers who were not captured or observed. Might the observation can be simply to declare that the coffee drinkers have taken something more fluid is than the others – or that they have been drinking less sugary soft drinks.

It other words summed up: just because coffee drinkers – if it has eliminated all other factors – live longer, coffee extended not life.

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May 17

Ministry Health

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For users that do not fall under these two conditions but who still need health care involving at least eight movements for thirty days, the payment of transport is ensured only partially by the NHS, according to Ordinance No. 142-B/may 15, 2012 the Ministry of health. In the case of cancer patients, who have to pay part of their costs of transport always needing to make examinations or treatments.

“We have corrected an injustice that came from the previous Government’s legislation,” the Health Minister, Paulo Macedo. “The Government now legislated to make available to those who do not have economic problems, but who have a clinical need, a carriage with a cost of 3 euros, up to a radius of 50 km in the case of the ambulance, and two euros in light vehicle up to a radius of 50 km,” explained the ruler, adding that there is a maximum ceiling of EUR 30 monthly.

With the Joint Ordinance of Ministry of Internal Affairs and health (142-A/May 15, 2012), the Government has also adopted the simple transport vehicle of patients (VTSD).

“What we have done is regulate light transport it was a practice that happened several years ago. Patients who have a near-normal life can be transported on light car with addition of convenience to the own and with less cost, “he concluded.

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May 17

Health Information

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It is very likely that soon you will see your doctor use the mobile while serve you. It won’t be a distraction. Simply will be consulting anything associated with their condition or calculating the dose to it of a drug. And it is that in 2012 some 20,000 physicians (40,000 in 2014) will have the iDoctus application on their handsets. These are the figures that adventure Angel Díaz Alegre, CEO and founder of eDoctores, the company that sells iDoctus. This firm has just come to an agreement with seven scientific societies (such as Semergen of primary care physicians), to enable its partners to download her free.

“Doctors are migrating from PC to mobile, so these applications can help them on their way.” “In addition, a mobile or a tablet can be a facilitator when it attends to the patient, need not be a barrier such as a computer,” said Díaz Alegre. 20% Of Spanish physicians already has an own iPad, according to consultancy Manhattan Research, and there are more than 20 million smartphones in Spain, which also facilitates the use for health information.

iDoctus provides practitioners, for example, a dose of drugs calculator, scientific updates, a platform of collaboration between professionals or information about diseases, among other uses. It is similar to Epocrates and Medscape, two applications that use nearly two million optional in USA. But this is just one of more than 10,000 applications for mobile related to health encountered in the Apple Store. This is a market with an exponential growth, according to a recent study by the consulting firm PwC, indicating that income of the m-health (mobile health) will spend 3.485 billion euros in 2013 17,800 million in 2017. It will be in Europe (30% of the market), Asia (another 30%) and USA and Canada (28%) where you install over the use of these technologies. They can be from devices for ambulances, support doctors thanks to smartphones and even reminders about appointments.

The use not only focuses to the health professionals but also to the patients themselves, or applications that help us improve the well-being in the field of prevention (with tips), diagnosis (telemedicine and call centers), treatments (for example, with SMS reminders) or the monitoring of chronically ill.

Precisely in this case, Orange Healthcare has developed Diabetic, an application for diabetics, who include his measurements on the mobile phone and can consult graphs and statistics on its evolution. And on the other side is the health professional, who can make queries and monitors the patient if some indicator fails. There is even a meter that plugs directly into the phone and transmit measurements is the patient. The operator has developed Diabetic to Sanofi pharmaceuticals, offered as a value added to the doctors. It is currently used on a pilot basis at the Hospital in Puerto Real (Cádiz), although Orange will offer a simplified and free version to patients. Other operators are also interested in this business. Telefónica created its own Division of e-health in 2010 and Vodafone, for example, has developed a monitoring of Alzheimer patients.

“All these applications will favour a self-control and education of patients about their illness,” argues Díaz Alegre. “Now we must develop simple applications focused on the elderly, for example, on television or tablets,” explains Itxaso Zubia, responsible for Orange Healthcare.

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May 17

Health Companies

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Florence, 16 May. -(Adnkronos)-Move to counteract the negative effects of sedentarieta ‘, preventing disability, prevent the worsening of diseases. Does well at all ages, but still more if it is elderly and suffering from chronic diseases. For this reason, the region of Tuscany promoted several years now by the Afa, adapted physical activity, aimed at the elderly, but frequented actually from 55 years. This year the regional will celebrate Afa Day ‘ in almost all Asl Saturday 19 May (in the other, May 26, June 2 and 23).

The head right to health Daniela Skirmish announced today during a press conference the updated data on Afa and the calendar of events will be held between 19 May and 23 June all Asl toscane. She was with Francesco Benvenuti, Director of the Department Territory-Fragil ‘ of Asl 11 Empoli in Tuscany, a company that has a leading role in the promotion of the Afa.

” The scientific evidence indicates that many diseases and disabilities are preventable by adopting correct lifestyles-said the assessor Skirmish-the latest Health Plans, both national and regional, have set themselves the objective of promoting positive lifestyles for health: among these, regular physical activity has a key role. Afa programs want to provide an opportunity of safe and effective exercise to counteract the sedentarieta ‘ for the entire population, but are designed for participants with specific health problems and are aimed at preventing disability, or to prevent that escalates. In many chronic diseases, disability is compounded by sedentarieta ‘: a vicious cycle that can be patched with adequate physical activity programs.

The first courses are muted Afa parties in Tuscany already since 2000. To introduce them formally in the programmes of all the Asl, a resolution of 2005. At the end of 2011, had more than 1,300 Afa courses (in 2008 were 750) paid over 20,000 participants (in 2008 were 11,600) in 71% of Tuscan municipalities, in over 500 swimming pools/gyms/adapted spaces. Afa programs are promoted and coordinated by Asl and health companies, nonprofit institutions and delivered by non-profit gyms and swimming pools. Instructors are graduates in sports science (or equivalent qualifications) or physiotherapy.

Participants are asked to share of 5 euro for insurance, and a contribution of 2 euros per session for the exercises in the gym, and 2.50 for those in the pool. The exercises are performed in groups: on average 17 participants for 2 or 3 sessions per week. These are exercises specifically designed for people with chronic diseases: arthritis, osteoporosis, Parkinson ‘s, stroke, aimed at the lifestyle modification, and secondary and tertiary prevention of disability.

The Afa has aroused interest also outside of Tuscany. Similar experiences are matches also in other regions: Piedmont, Liguria, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Umbria, Lazio, Basilicata, Veneto, Lombardy, Italy. In 2011 the Ministry of health has implemented the plan of address for rehabilitation. Research projects have been conducted by the region of Tuscany in Asl, with the scientific collaboration of the University of Florence, Istituto Superiore di Sanita ‘ and some U.s. centres, such as the National Institutes of Health, the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the University of Delaware.

Also thanks to these studies it has been verified that the Afa: it’s safe even for those elderly and fragile; improves back pain and other painful conditions due to lack of physical activity; improves movement and walk; reduce social isolation; improves the mood of participants.

Between 19 May and 23 June, every company, in parks, gyms, playgrounds, squares, and also on the waterfront, there will be demonstrations of Afa, walks, petanque competitions, dance performances, music, refreshments. The calendar of all the initiatives with which each order is the Afa Asl Day is on the site of the Regione Toscana.

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May 16

Health Fitness

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Heidelberg/Madrid (AP) — A gene therapy has helped adult mice live longer. The treatment slows down aging and improves the health of the animals as a study of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid.

The researchers had rise by means of gene therapy of the so-called fountain of youth enzyme telomerase in the cells of mice. This slows down the ageing of the genetic carriers (the chromosomes).

After treatment, the animals showed a dramatic improvement of health, fitness and longevity, the European scientific organisation, EMBO, Heidelberg, the study was published in the journal “Molecular Medicine” is reported. So, the therapy at the age of one year have extended the life of mice by total one quarter. At the age of two years left extend the life in this way in an average of 13 percent. This, the risk of cancer is not been – increased as in several previous attempts with younger animals.

«Gene therapy is regarded usually as a possibility, to bring genes to correct genetic defects or diseases in cells», Maria Blasco, one of the main authors of the study said. However could seen faulty gene function also ageing as a kind of. «Then the gene therapy is an effective strategy to slow aging and increase the life span.»

The work was important to show that this gene therapy is pretty sure, UTZ commented Jersey medical school (NJMS) HH of the new in the same journal. She must be tried now but in other mammals live significantly longer than mice. Without treatment, the experimental mice of BASCO to around three years old.

The enzyme telomerase extends the Telomeres that complete the genetic strands in the cell. With each cell division, these ends are a bit shorter so that they shrink in the course of life. In newborns, they have the full length again. A team led by Blasco had already created a young Super mouse that lives longer, and 2008 in the journal «Cell» reported. The Ohta was awarded the prestigious Körber Prize for European science for work on the telomerase also in 2008.

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May 16

World Health Organization

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But the Directorate General of health (DGS) warns that the criteria vary from Edition to Edition, by which “is not, therefore, can be directly any comparison”.

“Portugal has stalled while other countries have improved – this is how you lose positions in any comparative classification” reads in part of the report devoted to the country. In this year the index is led by the Netherlands, which failed to gather a total of 872 points 1000 a total of 42 indicators. Denmark followed (822), Iceland (799) Luxembourg (791) and Belgium (783). At the tail of the list, after Portugal, which succeeded in 589 points, comes to Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia, which causes, at EU level, Portugal is the seventh worst performance.

The index is constructed from information provided by patients, which is crossed with indicators such as mortality, hospital infection rates, waiting lists, access, and query markup, among others. Rights and information to users, waiting lists, results, prevention and outreach services and pharmaceutical area are the key points of this year.

The audience tried to get a reaction from the Ministry of health, who sent a comment to the DGS. “All the reports detail changes to the list of selected indicators, in terms of number and quality, compared with previous years. Similarly, the relative weight assigned to each area of analysis has varied. It is not therefore possible to be directly any evolutionary comparison of the situation in a number of areas that are taken into account, and may not consider the assertion that Portugal downloaded in index “, considers the DGS.

In 2009, the last year in which the index was published, was advanced that Portugal was in 25th position, but an erratum disclosed later placed the country at 21 place. At that time, the Organization has already stressed that the country had “a poor performance when accessing and waiting times, but a very good performance with regard to the introduction of electronic support tools” even if Portugal was “the best in Europe in the area of e-health”.

Now, Arne Björnberg, director-general of the Organization’s operations, recognizes that “the economic crisis of recent years has affected Portugal and therefore wouldn’t expect big improvements”. But he adds that the technologies introduced have not been reflected in a better health care. “Waits are too long and the mediocre results,” says the responsible, which highlights as positive the system is inclusive and kidney surgery and cataracts.

Consultations with the family doctor on the same day, access to specialists, dentist, medical second opinions in public service, use of antibiotics were some of the items with negative provision, as opposed to various areas related to electronic access to information, infant mortality, vaccination and medicines for Alzheimer’s disease.

Carlos Braga, the movement of users of health services, considers that the report only mirrors “degradation” for which have warned. The representative of the Movement recalls that the World Health Organization has already reached considers that Portugal had one of the best health care systems in the world “at a time when the investment was smaller than in other countries”. And, therefore, regrets “policies of past governments, particularly in the area of medicine and restricting services rendered”. “What allows things vy is the dedication of health professionals,” says to the public.

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