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The daily figure (27-11-2005)

The average compensation, including stock options, bosses of the top 40 French companies is 15 000 euros per day

The site days (27-11-2005)

International Food and Information Council (IFIC)

On 27 November this year ...

511: Death of Clovis
1095: Pope Urban II urged the Knights to the Western crusade
1874: Birth of Chaim Weizmann, first president of the State of Israel
1893: New Zealand gives women right to vote, the first state to do so in the world and in the nineteenth century
1895: Alfred Nobel wrote his will in which he created the Nobel
1942: French navy was scuttled in Toulon harbor to ensure that its vessels do not fall into the hands of the Nazis
1942: Birth of Jimi Hendrix
1967: General de Gaulle opposed, for the second time, vetoed the entrance of Rouyaume Kingdom in the European Community
1990: John Major is elected as the Conservative British Prime Minister
1999: Death of Alain Peyrefitte
2004: Death of Philippe de Broca

Quote of the Day (27-11-2005)

Ah! that men are wicked not to love me as much as I love myself! Tristan Bernard ( The burden of proof )

surrogate mothers, a practice that extends (27-11-2005)

" Skirting French law, more and more couples will seek, via the Internet, 'wombs for rent' abroad "read the headline on Friday The Fig aro.
" In France, surrogacy is prohibited by law. But the list of countries that permit or arrange surrogacy keeps growing. After the United States and Great Britain, Canada, Holland, Greece, Israel, South Africa and now a part of our Nordic neighbors and Belgium, saw the practice grow "wrote the French daily. And to clarify that according to relevant associations, hundreds of French couples do every year, call for the intervention of a surrogate mother.
" They offer mothers 'gestational' donation of oocytes and sperm if necessary, arrange for the in vitro fertilization - as many couples want the surrogate mother carries an embryo conceived with their own gametes ."

The concept of union of MG in Parliament on Tuesday (27-11-2005)

Recall that it will take place Tuesday a parliamentary hearing on the hot topic (especially in Flanders) of a union of general pure. An initiative that seems to put the balm to the heart of the leaders of the movement Domus.

50 babies a year born alive after abortion in the United Kingdom (27-11-2005)

According to a report by doctors, fifty babies ARISE alive despite the achievement of an abortion, reports the Sunday Times. Remember that the guidelines of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend, after the abortion of a fetus over 21 weeks and six days, an injection of KCl before the "delivery", a move that a lot of practitioners do realize not. An official investigation is coyrs about it.
In Britain abortion on demand is permitted until 24 weeks, which is the highest limit laid down in Europe.

Kinés cautioned against bronchiolitis (27-11-2005)

The newspaper reported The world the initiative of a network of 400 physical therapists in Aquitaine to organize a campaign to keep the week- weekends and holidays to ensure continuity of care for infants with bronchiolitis. The project aims to reduce the rate of emergency admissions for this condition.

EB-M

The States General of alcoholism in France (27-11-2005)

French newspapers announced the decision to Xavier Bertrand, French Minister of Health, to hold for general statements to allow a debate on alcoholism.


Overseas Doctors operated in the United Kingdom (27-11-2005)

The president of the British Medical Association it is made quite strongly on Friday in a speech, certain trusts (local units NHS) hospital UK, accusing it of blatantly exploiting the many foreign-born doctors in the United Kingdom. These doctors "overseas" are often assigned to positions " nonstandard" and underpaid. They also, frequently, less access to proper training.


The dramatic exodus of Filipino health workers (27-11-2005)

The Philippines has become a leading provider of health workers in the world, but the exodus of their nurses ( e) s and doctors over the past five years has left the care system of the country in a state of near collapse, reports including the New York Times. A study by a former Minister of Health shows that since 1994 some 100 000 nurses (s) have left the country to work abroad, particularly in the UK and USA. With a view to pay about twenty times higher than in the Philippines.

The last place because we (27-11-2005)

The newspaper La Repubblica evokes a new reality show in Italy. It aims to teenagers and is supposed to reflect on the ironic mode on youth behavior. Its mission is educational: to make information on the risks associated with the use of tobacco, illegal drugs (ecstasy, cannabis, etc ...) or alcohol abuse. In short, he is a true prevention project developed by ASL * Varese in Italy and performed by twenty students from the province of Varese with the production house Hagam. All this is funded by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. (* Azienda Sanitaria Locale: autonomous regional units of organization of health care in Italy.)
But to spice up this initiative to the laudable goals the designers have imagined this turn into a reality show to be the least original. In fact the seven characters in this sit-com (which are supposed to represent all types of teen) as soon as the bell sounds to end of the course are found at each change of hours in the bathroom or girls boys and that is where they discuss their next Interros, the last points of composition, they organize their outings on Saturday evening and more sensitive topics like drugs ... The film also called simply "toilets Show" special drugs. "For now, this toilet show is limited to a DVD available to teachers in the Ministry Health together with educational kits on the themes of drugs, alcohol and tobacco. More than 800 DVDs have already been distributed. The project also is interactive: students who have viewed the film are invited to react and to propose new scenarios.

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http://www.repubblica.it/2005/j/sezioni/scuola_e_universita/servizi/drogagiov/flimbagnidroga/flimbagnidroga.html


The sounds of silence (27-11-2005)

Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Berlin showed the "song of the iceberg." The sound of water flowing through the crevices of the iceberg are not audible to the human ear because their frequency is too low. But a group of German scientists who publish results of their work in the American science journal Science reached the record using special sound sensors. The voice is like the hum of the iceberg of a huge swarm of bees or that of an orchestra trying to give its most serious instruments. A hollow voice that stirs deep. To hear about:
http://mediacenter.corriere.it/MediaCenter/action/player?uuid=0e9a1e64-5df0-11da-9ce6-0003ba99c667

EB-M


virtual pats (27-11-2005)

Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Paediatrics, University of Siena presented in Turin in of "Virtuality Conference" Fetouch project: a three-D ultrasound with tactile feedback to "touch" element ultrasound. This project, still experimental permit, for example pregnant women to "cherish" their fetus. In practice, the interfaces are resisting more or less strong hand of the user manipulates and produced by association with the vision of the virtual object, the impression of touching it. The applications of this project are many, but particularly interesting from a medical standpoint. But the ability to caress the fetus (with apparently scientifically proven effects on anxiety of mothers) is not the only application. The latest developments concerning learning laparoscopic surgery, breast tenderness, or the study of grasping for the rehabilitation of persons who have lost this feature of the hand. As the title section of La Repubblica who speaks: "The virtual more a medical reality. "

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Read: a historical and sociological obesity (27-11-2005)

Magazine History publishes in its latest issue (November 2005) a research paper on obesity. Title: Birth of an illness. The martyrdom of the obese is already a leader with the introduction.
" An obesity epidemic threatens the world ... This concern is real health concerns. She is also the concern of contemporary appearance. As "plump", the "heavy in size" have always existed: it is their perception of society and the image they have of themselves that have changed .
The term obesity has made appearance in the eighteenth century are. Gradually concerns about the appearance and consequences of obesity are becoming increasingly stringent.
The author describes the social pressure that transforms the image of obesity early in the twentieth century. This social pressure that fight obesity associations fighting against the "morphologically correct" because they "feel that the fight against obesity turns to the fight against fat people. "
Interesting to read in any case for a view of the problem of obesity in a historical and sociological perspective and not just medical.

EB-M


Vitamin C: a place in the problems associated with uric acid (27-11-2005)

supplementation with 500 mg / d Vitamin C for two months reduces serum uric acid, suggesting that vitamin C may be useful in the prevention and management of gout and other ailments Uric acid-related, conclude Huang et al (Johns Hopkins University), authors of a study published in Arthritis and Rheumatism ( Arthr Rheum 2005; 52: 1843).

distress and fear of dying during acute coronary syndrome (27-11-2005)

distress and fear of dying during the initial phases of acute coronary syndrome may trigger depression and subsequent anxiety, which leads to a poorer prognosis and increased morbidity with time, conclude Whitehead et al (University College London), authors A study published in The American Journal of Cardiology (2005; 96: 1512).

Hands off my finger ... except for physicians (26-11-2005)

Johan Vande Lanotte, president of SP.as expresses the Standaard about the current social unrest in Belgium around the Generations Pact. What he says about the social moderation, in particular, should appeal to physicians who are denied indexing " The wage increase does currently only 0.3%. Whoever wants to moderation actually says: Drop the index and make do with reduced wages. We will not participate in that. It is cynical for the people that we talk all the time of the removal of the index when there is inflation. "Hands off my finger," said somehow JVDL. Well, except for doctors ...


British GPs threaten to take no further vaccinations (26-11-2005)

The decision of the British MG to drop immunization goals due to the change of rules on compensation of those objectives concern government, reports Pulse. A survey by the British medical weekly shows that the number of MG certain to reach the targets for vaccination has plunged from 83 to 25%.
A considerable number of MG are planning to abandon support vaccination, which is perfectly permissible for them. The government says, he does not believe this threat.

gynécos The French called to "rethink" the practice of episiotomy (26-11-2005)

The National College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians French (CNGOF) made public two days ago, a new recommendation regarding the practice of episiotomy. Is that in France, 47% of births result in an episiotomy. This figure rises to 68% for women who give birth to their first baby, the newspaper Le Monde . The CNGOF call health professionals to "rethink" their practice to achieve this, initially, 30% of episiotomies.


shy bladder (26-11-2005)

Affection little analysis that focuses on which the BBC today, following a recent conference of the Scottish section of the British Psychological Society. The "Bashful bladder (shy bladder) or" pee shy "prevents people from urinating in public places like public washrooms or located elsewhere than at home. According to the British Psychological Society, four million people, just for the UK suffer from this form of social phobia. This problem, notes Professor Alex Gardner, can ruin people's lives and they often wait years or even decades, before seeking therapeutic help.


for Drama in Niger (26-11-2005)

WFP (World Food Programme) UN warns against the possible consequences of the food crisis, for the second consecutive year, the Niger. According to its director, the slightest problem enough to precipitate new families in Niger in the drama. For more than 1.2 million people, grain stocks do not exceed three months, while 2 million other Nigerians they are limited to five months. For a significant number of people do not switch into starvation, it is necessary the rains are sufficient, that the locusts stay away, as crops are good and the food prices remain stable.
WFP needs $ 20.3 million to fund its operations until March, including $ 8.3 million immediately.


Phase 1 for a successful recombinant vaccine against plague (26-11-2005)

Computer Sciences Corporation announced that its subsidiaries, DVC LLC, has vaccinated successfully all the volunteers in a Phase 1 clinical study designed to test his vaccine recombinant cons rF1V fever. This vaccine has obviously been developed from the perspective of the problem of bioterrorism.

dairy products high in fat reduce the risk of colorectal cancer (26-11-2005)

How to get out of anything that is beneficial or harmful?, Some will say on learning that the ingestion of large quantities of dairy products high in fat and conjugated linoleic acid, may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, according to a study by Larsson et al, involving over 60,000 women Swedish 40 to 76 years, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Am J Clin Nutr 2005; 82: 894).


American Farmers want to cultivate marijuana (26-11-2005)

A growing number of American farmers ask to be allowed to cultivar marihuana , reports USA Today. This culture is prohibited by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, despite the low content of hemp tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Farmers refer to the authorization given Canadian colleagues to engage in this culture and the competitive advantage it gives them. North Dakota has allowed this culture, with specific regulations, but must in any case the federal green light to start up. And such authorization does not seem about to happen.


Puzzle (26-11-2005)

reading the rant of Claude Dawance (see below), I want to respond with this phrase that I read on the forum docadoc "Our past is sad, our present is tragic, fortunately we have no future" (Dr P Setia ENT)

EB-M

The murder was almost perfect but not enough to cover the MG (26-11-2005)

This is the Nieuwsblad reported that this incident of great interest to physicians. A man had choked his wife, aged 53, with a cushion to go prolonged love with another. He was very well staged the whole thing and called the doctor on duty to make the required finding, especially since the wife was to be cremated. The doctor Care had some doubts, despite the perfect preparation of the murderer and had contacted the physician's interest, as well as justice. An autopsy was then used to unmask the killer, a day before the date set for incineration.


Far from here, but nice, the Jazz Band Medical (26-11-2005)

is Peter De Bruyn, general practitioner and avid jazz, which indicates the existence of a remarkable Argentinian jazz band, composed entirely of doctors, the Medical Jazz Band. Info on their site (for those who read English).

Netherlands: night duty and weekend mandatory or voluntary? (26-11-2005)

Dutch GPs are divided on a topic of great concern to their Belgian colleagues as well, namely the obligation to provide guards at night and weekends, reports MedNet. For Landelijke Huisartsen Vereniging (LHV ), the obligation is legal and should be assumed. For the Eerste Landelijke Huisartsen Associatie (LAP), it is not the legal profession and is the which itself decides to take any task.

Unit, which unit? (26-11-2005)

The idea had really made a splash in the early stages. Domus movement, which would lead to a unitary structure, union, and scientific associations of general medicine Flemish, grouped under the label Domus Medica, was a success straight until recently. Since an inconclusive vote at VHNI (Flemish Institute for training), we can simplify that old and new wage a permanent war games, including interventions interposed on electronic forums.

Diabetes negates the long-term benefits of PCI after myocardial (26-11-2005)

Does diabetes cancels out the beneficial effect of primary coronary angioplasty the long-term risk of reinfarction after acute myocardial infarction with ST segment elevated, and this compared with fibrinolysis?
This question serves as the title of the publication, signed Madsen and all study participants DANAMA-2 in the American Journal of Cardiology 2005; 96: 1469).
And the results of this substudy DANAMA-2 shows that the PCI compared with fibrinolysis, increases the risk of reinfarction in patients with diabetes, but the decreases in non-diabetics. We can therefore conclude that diabetes cancels the beneficial effect of long-term PCI.

Medicine fair (26-11-2005)

We learn that since November 8, a bus will visit 8 cities contraception Belgian student to inform young women about contraception and STDs. We do not know who is behind this initiative, but at a time when we fights for the upgrading of the role of general, we find that this bus is a slap, one more, (but you get used to hard) to our profession. The student cities have they not therefore generalists? Would not it be simpler to encourage through television campaigns for example, young women see their GP? The bus
" is available only to women . " Those who wish may ask questions at the woman doctor on this site ...». Not because everyone knows that women are rare in the medical profession and therefore difficult to find ... then we must make medicine fair that our girls and young women can find one who ask questions. Certainly, the work of prevention and information has its place on contraception and STDs, but would it not be wiser to invest the money put into initiatives such as these to better pay (eg ) consultations of general medicine focused on prevention.

EB-M


Pregnant Women more often hospitalized in the Netherlands (26-11-2005)

The risk that a pregnant woman be admitted to hospital because of complications increased by 41% between 1995 and 2003 in the Netherlands, reports the daily Trouw . The number of babies admitted shortly after birth has increased it by 20%. According to experts, this trend is due to the number of pregnant women aged over 35 years, and the increasing proportion of pregnant immigrant women (among Caribbean women and women of Suriname, hypertension in pregnancy is apparently more common) . Admission fastest complaints data may also play a role in this regard.

Follow my gaze (26-11-2005)

An article published in Developmental Science by two psychologists at the University of Washington shows the importance of gaze in human social relations and especially the development of language. Being able to follow the gaze direction of adults in the last quarter of the first year would be crucial for language learning. Rachele Brooks and Andrew Metzoff found that young children who are most qualified to follow the gaze of others at the end of their first year are able to include twice as many words at the age of 18 months (337 against 195 words for those who do it later.) (after Scienze.it )

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Evaluation of a drinking contest: one dead and six months in prison (26-11-2005)

A bartender in a small Norwegian town has grown a client to drink without limit by engaging in a contest with him. After drinking 19 tequilas in 90 minutes, said customer, aged 34, had resulted in an emergency room and died three days later. It was later learned that the bartender had him, contented to swallow water. The bartender was sentenced to six months in jail.

Telematics Symposium (26-11-2005)

For the sixth consecutive time, the symposium "Telematics@health.be" was held on 1 and 2 December at the Hotel President, Boulevard King Albert II 44 - 1000 Brussels. Among others discussed the latest developments in the area of sharing patient information, electronic prescribing and the platform BeHealth.
01/12/2005 - AM: eQuality session - PM: eMerge session
2/12/2005 - AM: PM Session ePrescription: eLaw and BeHealth session
Simultaneous translation FR-NL scheduled - Free participation

There are days when we really wondered who mocked (26-11-2005)

Demotte Learning that casts doubt on the OECD study that places the Belgian general in the top of the lowest paid physicians is the next most astounding. Indeed, one wonders what is the Belgian study on the value that should be the act of MG in the cost of a tool that would allow the minister to question a study that deserves to exist? Study to which he is unable to offer any Belgian study, our country shining through lack of calculation of cost an intellectual act?
Our minister is yet (but what the deuce on basic math?) Incomes of general practitioners have become very worrying! But he says, do not worry " we are always willing to hear other proposals .
Help, I dream! Any Belgium him yelled that does not give the index provided in an agreement signed with Belgium debased status of a banana republic with "agreements" that may unilaterally change the policies along the way and he dares to claim to be "open "to any suggestions! Since the time we he proposes to calculate the value of the tool and the university to assess what is expected to cost the intellectual act, one wonders what are the proposals that he is ready to hear?
He said that the 20/30 is a considerable step towards a better consideration. But he forgets that the revaluation blithely obtained by the revolt and the strike has never been granted for the simultaneous visits, visits in the evening, night, weekend! How can you laugh without a physician order is worth upgrading to treat a patient the day but not 2 in the same house, not worthy of either upgrading the evening or the weekend? Do we have brains that recycling was only part of the working day, provided that there is only one patient in the home? Learn
the same day that Jeff Van Langendonck (Flemish professor of labor law) states in the Flemish daily De Tijd of it would not pay more than benefits for doctors is the straw that blew my rant of day! This worthy man finds that social status is a subterfuge to continue to motivate physicians to adhere to the rates! Damn, I did not know what the extra income that is essential to some colleagues contracted to continue to survive meanly called a trick! I did not know that 30% of young doctors should abandon general practice for lack of money and food for their lavish "subterfuge" even before the end of the year has elapsed.

Learn one of three unique Momignies doctors will again be requisitioned for this practice of slavery that is the strength of public service keeps people insured by the private sector is overflowing sea of my rebellion. This requisition is in defiance of the laws of time and work superbly ignoring these doctors custody were already over 4 a weekend before a colleague in sick ... Politicians who invented this system of requisition without weighing the weight of their decision will probably be the same to rebel to medical errors that are forgot to say that statistically the numbers are well below what might be expected given the number of benefits and working conditions seen ...

Learn the same day as "Doctors of the World Views" search for MG volunteers to care for the homeless shelterbelts in Brussels is the straw that broke the ocean of my indignation. Come to beg the free service to those policies that underestimate the clock to overcome the inadequacy of our health system does not cast the shield of our politicians. They are always quick to shout in unison how much we loved our Couton their exaggerations but of course we have to compensate for their failure and to avoid their shame to see so many fellow citizens without health care on their sidewalks civilized country and civilized ...

There are days like this ...

Claude Dawance

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The AHF does not manifest on 1 December with students, but shows (partially) fixed (25-11-2005)

We have reproduced in our first edition today FAG's response to medical students who are about to show these days . Associations Forum has, moreover, issued a detailed press release regarding this issue. It explains why the opposition demonstrators in the numerus clausus principle prevents the AGF to participate, while expressing solidarity vis-à-vis the practical arrangements for its selection.
We reprint this release in full to the end of this edition.


Vaccination of poultry: worse than good! (25-11-2005)

The indistinct use of vaccination of poultry to curb the spread of bird flu, far short of this goal, has instead become a part of problem, says the BMJ , following the WHO. Vaccination can sometimes foster silent transmission of infection from asymptomatic birds. People involved in the operation range from farm to farm and can spread the disease.


Acetylcysteine, a greater pulmonary fibrosis (NEJM) (25-11-2005)

Therapy with acetylcysteine at a dose of 3 x 600 mg pj, added to prednisone and azathioprine, preserves vital capacity and diffusion capacity of carbon monoxide in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis better than standard therapy alone, conclude authors of a large international multicenter study (which involved clinicians ULB and KUL), published in New England Journal of Medicine ( N Engl J Med 2005; 353: 2229).

Rp / Session swimming with dolphins (BMJ) (25-11-2005)

therapy for depression original mild to moderate, consisting of the patient to swim with dolphins, is effective according to the findings of a study of Antonioli et al, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ 2005; 331: 1231), including the number of that day is also devoted to relations between man and animal from a health standpoint.


Zinc supplementation for HIV-positive children (Lancet) (25-11-2005)

The administration of zinc supplements to HIV-positive children n 'leads not to an increase in viral load in HIV-1 RNA and could reduce morbidity caused by diarrhea. Consequently, programs to increase the intake of zinc in populations deficient in this respect and with a high prevalence of HIV-1 can be implemented without fear of negative effects on the replication of HIV-1 Bobat et al conclude, the authors of a study published in the Lancet (2005; 366: 1862)

A simple tool to monitor HIV-positive children (Lancet) (25 - 11-2005)

The total number of lymphocytes is a powerful predictor of risk of progression to AIDS among HIV-positive children, despite a low correlation with the percentage of CD4 cells. Their determination is therefore a simple and inexpensive monitoring of these children, conclude the authors of the HIV Paediatric Prognostic Markers Collaborative Study in a study published in The Lancet (2005; 366: 1868).


syndrome hummingbird (25-11-2005)

The New York Times this study by Dr. Mary Czerwinski, a world expert in the "science of interruptions "(note: we knew personally that there was science interruptions). A monitoring for more than a thousand hours of employees of two large high-tech companies in the U.S. revealed that the concentration time for each employee on a given project is eleven minutes on average. They are constantly distracted. Distractions in the office most likely to disturb the concentration are the phone calls, web browsing, chat, sms, but also the orders of a superior. But to read and reply to e-mails is the leading troublemakers. After a break, it takes about half an hour to re-focus on a specific task. But the worst part is that 40% of cases, after a break, employees are embarked on a new task. Distractions seem to be disrupting our short-term memory: " But what I was doing ?". Dr. Czerwinski compares employees at the time of the Internet " hummingbirds' foraging between e-mail, web page, power point. This problem, one suspects, is obviously not unique to the United States but is cons in relation to the integration of new technologies. According to an Italian psychologist specialist work organization in enterprises: "The disruption work in companies is progressing at the same pace as technology ." It is therefore necessary to learn to manage new technologies.
... But what are you doing here reading this letter? Go a little concentration please ...

EB-M


We will address violence in France Hospital (25-11-2005)

The Directorate of hospitalization and the care organization (DHOS) will address the French phenomenon of violence in care institutions, announced Doctor's Daily. It states that the National Observatory of violence hospital identified 374 events, including 56 "very serious " in three months.


Little Reflection passing (25-11-2005)

Yesterday was the day's violence against women. Almost every newspaper focused on the problem. Amer observation for women.
In its 2005 report, the UN says one in three women worldwide is a victim of violence: emotional abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse and sexual violence. The record of violence against women is heavy in all the inhabited parts of the planet. Machismo is still killing and every day, as on the evening of a fight, women are counting their dead.
And in the vast majority of cases, the executioner is often a family member: father, stepfather, husband, companion ...
short, as in the worst horror films, the danger is in the house.
I do not remember who said that " statistically it is safer for a woman being alone in a parking garage near her home that the man she knows .

EB-M

Communiqué FAG about the student demonstration (25-11-2005)

Medical students will march on 1 December against the numerus clausus and require our support. The FAG
includes their claim, but will not participate not at their event.
Indeed, in this complex two points must be clearly separated.

1) The Numerus clausus

Belgium remains one of the OECD countries with the most doctors per capita. Administration of Public Health has decided, in this context, to introduce a numerus clausus at the facility, according to his skills.
can revisit its relevance, but it seems, on the ground, we are far from a lack of medical degree. If
in some areas are beginning to fear a shortage of generalists, much more attractive profession is at stake, rather than the number of generalist graduates. Working conditions and income, among other things because of the plethora repel more than one young. If we must spend 1 / 3 of our time in the administrative, do not 1 / 3 of doctors in general but more paperwork and less, so we can devote our time to our real job. A third of young doctors leave the profession within five years, and only a small number of youth who have completed their training settle. What is to train more?

2) Selection

The terms of implementation of the numerus in Belgium are French, they are unacceptable. Conditions vary in time, striking in the context of a political standoff with the numerus at the entrance to study without worrying about the future of students, admission to doctoral students from a surplus without knowing their fate future medical students plunge into intolerable uncertainty. The federal
maintained a consistent policy, which should perhaps be revised, but has the merit of clarity.
Students serve as hostages in a struggle between political parties, the North and South, the interests of universities and hospitals and no one, ultimately, not truly cares about their fate.
Try to find a humane solution to their problems and rewarding, but without giving in to blackmail they are the instrument.

We support you of course for the second point, but will not participate in your event, given our differences of opinion about the former.

The Board of FAG


The FAG against the protest, students (25-11-2005)

Here verbatim response FAG future doctors, who will be demonstrating the December 1st
" The current situation of young medical students has caught the attention of the AGM of the FAG 06/18/2004.
No terms we felt strong enough to express the outrage of the current situation.
All graduates are physicians in July banned professional for three months is unacceptable.
Our leaders have had seven years to understand this problem and were unable to find a solution.
whether or not a numerus clausus is not questioned here, but if the numerus clausus exists, it is immoral to apply to the current way.
is later than the end of the first year that the student needs to know what his future, and not three months after graduation.
In an emergency this year, at a minimum the holder of a visa should be able to practice upon recognition of his diploma.

The general meeting of the FAG "


Pharma: Other countries, problems related (25-11-2005)

LEEM during the French Pharma . be this week showed his strong dissatisfaction with the Social Security Financing Bill (Bill funding Social Security) for 2006. He has warned of negative consequences that would PLFSS on the activity of businesses, particularly in terms of employment. For a complete presentation of the problem to the following address: http://www.pharmaceutiques.com/archive/une/doc/876_1.ppt
On another side, the Communist Party, too, ton cons the PLFSS. As pointed out by a Communist member, " Social Security is not sick of spending but revenue .

Fatigue residents, patient risk (25-11-2005)

Patients staying in hospitals where junior doctors (residents) have no access to a room of rest when call at night, are in a risky situation. That is what the vice president of Junior doctors committee of the British Medical Association wrote in BMA News. Is that it becomes more and more that people doing work at night need a rest not only for their own safety but also for the people they are responsible.

HIV in Europe (25-11-2005)

was diagnosed in 2004 71 755 new HIV cases in the WHO European region (which includes all EU countries). This number is very close to that recorded in 2003, is Eurosurveillance Weekly and substantially lower than the peak in 2001 (113,930 cases). The four countries reported more than 200 new cases per million inhabitants are Estonia, Portugal, Russia and Ukraine.


chronic respiratory patients rather happy with the MG in the Netherlands (25-11-2005)

70% people with asthma or COPD in the Netherlands believe that their GP is competent to take charge of their illness, while 30% take the opposite view, reports MedNet. These results, says MedNet, are better than those for the GPs on cancer, neurological diseases, digestive disorders, musculoskeletal disorders and certain other chronic diseases.


11-9-2001 850 victims identified through their DNA (25-11-2005)

According to Le Monde, 1594 of 2749 victims of the attacks of September 11 2001 could be identified. For 850 of them, this was done through their DNA.


Jean Stéphenne (GSK Bio) rewarded (25-11-2005)

The Belgian Association of Alumni of INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration), the prestigious business school Fontainebleau has awarded this year's twentieth price of the innovator to Baron Jean Stéphenne, President and CEO of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (GSK Bio).
This prize is awarded every year since 1986 a Belgian personalities whose creativity and dynamism had a lasting impact on the Belgian business community. Thus the 2003 prize was awarded to Baron Daniel Janssen, Chairman of Solvay and 2004 to Jean-Guillaume Zurstrassen Jose Zurstrassen and Grégoire de Streel, co-founder of Skynet then Keytrade.
With this choice the selection committee particularly wanted to highlight the spirit of innovation, strategic vision and tenacity of the humanist Baron Jean Stephens:
• He managed to instill a spirit of innovation to both employees society as external partners. This has helped make significant progress in the treatment of many diseases (vaccines against hepatitis A & B, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria, meningitis, severe gastroenteritis in infants or the treatment of cancer or AIDS)
• Its strategic vision humanist which led to a strategy called "South-first strategy" that is radically opposed to that of major pharmaceutical companies. The strategy is to launch the first new vaccines in countries where developing medical needs are greatest before serving other countries, more lucrative. In addition to its strategic vision humanist has also encouraged many to develop public-private partnerships to support research
• Finally, his tenacity has helped keep the center of the global decision

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The post classical not dead yet (25-11-2005)

quart Three Belgians prefer paper mail to email. This is exemplified by an investigation by DSS on behalf of La Poste. This proportion rises even conventional preferences to 84% among those over 55 years and only 61% in the age of 35, including reports Laatste Nieuws .


The bright future of intelligent machines (25-11-2005)

" I think by 2030, a computer system costing $ 1,000 is already thousands of times more powerful than human brain. " It is a rather strong prediction of Scientific American Kuzweil Ray, author of a book on "intelligent machines " entitled The Singularity is near , reported by the French business daily Les Echos .


Medicine Research General (25-11-2005)

The journal of general medical practitioner-delivered Oct. 15, at the 4th National Day of General Medicine, the Research Prize in medicine in general Drs Binder and Philip Francis Chabaud for their work entitled Screening for adolescent suicidal behavior: a test design and validation of its use. This research was published in the same journal (2004, 576 : 80 and 641: 5) This is a research work over the long term by a study focused on 3,800 students. After identifying the profiles of suicidal adolescents and risk factors, researchers have developed a simple questionnaire, the TSTS-Roach to spot suicidal behavior.
is the job of test validation has been awarded for the importance of the topic in public health, the fact that it is a work in the long term and methodological quality.
This research was obviously possible only through a multidisciplinary collaboration and funding by multiple partners.
GPs designers of this work were motivated by the fact that baseline data on topic were outdated, the high level of suicide attempts among teens and finally by the fact that the screening recommendations were not applied in general practice as too vague and not equipped. " In general medicine, through research, we are not there to take and copy the complexity of the knowledge of experts who dig deep some people, but we need to invent an alphabet peculiar to our profession ," concludes Dr. Philippe Binder the latest issue of The Journal of general medical practitioner-.

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A press Medecins du Monde (25-11-2005)

Medecins du Monde is looking to expand its team of volunteer doctors to care for the homeless in ESRD.
past 5 years, a team of volunteer doctors carried out medical consultations in the evening at CASU (Centre for Social Assistance).
In Belgium, the homeless do not usually consult a doctor even if they are hit by the disease. Their priority concerns are indeed eating, shelter, keep warm, avoid aggression from the street. Consequence: diseases more or less light may degenerate into serious diseases. Our volunteer doctors detect and treat diseases as they emerge, but also provide a listening and pay particular attention to homeless.

views Medecins du Monde
• For homeless hosted by the CASU (Rue du Petit Rempart, 5 - 1000 Brussels)
• For GPs
volunteers • 4-5 nights a week • free and anonymous

• Since December 1999: over 5,500 free consultations.

MDM Medical Research volunteers for this mission!
Currently, a team of 7 volunteer doctors a presence 4 nights a week from 21h. The objective is to increase the presence of Médecins du Monde. The commitment is subject to availability of volunteer doctors.
Contact:
- Jean-Claude Vitoux, Development Manager (GSM: 0475 36 96 93)
- Delphine Guibert, Director of Missions (GSM: 0476 90 84 65)
Medecins du Monde - Rue de Merode, 216 - 1060 Brussels - Tel. 02 648 69 99
www.medecinsdumonde.be

Help us to treat those whom the world is gradually forgetting
000-0000029 PCB-29division and the major research center in Belgium, despite two successive mergers in 1989 and 2000. Today
GSK Bio employs 4,500 people worldwide, including 3,700 people in Belgium, including 900 researchers, representing 25% of the global vaccine market. In 2004, GSK Bio distributed more than 1.5 billion doses of vaccines to 168 countries, whether developed or developing - an average of 45 doses per second.

Resignation Korea (24-11-2005)

Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, the Korean veterinarian celebrates 53 years in therapeutic cloning, has resigned from the Stem Cell Bank (opened October 19 in Seoul) and all its functions within the government and private organizations. The resignation comes after accusations of violating ethics code that used oocytes collected from two members of his team and paid the donors.
An official spokesman of the Ministry of Health has stated however that the events had taken place without the knowledge of Dr. Hwang and exempted him from any breach of ethics.
is unclear whether Dr Hwang intends to continue his research.

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Significance of hyperuricemia as a risk factor in pregnancy-induced hypertension (24-11-2005)

The risk of gestational hypertension is classically defined by the presence or no proteinuria. But that claim of hyperuricemia, also common in hypertension during pregnancy? It wondered what Roberts et al, authors of a study published in Hypertension (2005; 46: 1263). The conclusion of this is that this factor undoubtedly involved in too determining the risk of hypertension in pregnancy. The presence of hyperuricemia increases the risk, whether or not proteinuria. In fact, the authors write in conclusion of their study, " hyperuricemia is at least as relevant as proteinuria to identify pregnancies with gestational hypertension increased risk .


biological age versus chronological age (24-11-2005)

The usefulness of biological age, reflected by the index BA / PR (biological age / Physiological reserve) to predict results of a number of interventions in the elderly, as per ex. bypass surgery, rather than chronological age, is real, conclude Goffaux et al, authors of a study published in the Southern Medical Journal (2005; 98: 985). Our knowledge in this area should be developed.

Socioeconomic status and risk of rheumatoid arthritis (24-11-2005)

There is a link between higher socioeconomic status and decreased risk of rheumatoid arthritis in a population-based survey representative of the population Swedish. Environmental factors currently unexplained or lifestyle factors, or both, influence the risk of rheumatoid arthritis, even in a relatively egalitarian society like Sweden, Bengtsson et al conclude, the EIRA study group, authors A study published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases ( 2005; 64: 1588).


Diabetes, "equivalent coronary" (24-11-2005)

diabetes without a history of myocardial infarction and myocardial infarction without diabetes are similar risks of cardiovascular death in men and women. However, diabetes without apparent history of heart disease signs a higher risk that a history of coronary heart disease in non-diabetic subjects, particularly females, Juutilainen et al conclude, authors of a study published prospective Finnish population in Diabetes Care ( 2005; 28: 2901). The authors describe the Los diabetes of "equivalent coronary .


Increased mortality related to an earlier menopause (24-11-2005)

coronary mortality, but also due to other diseases, may contribute to increased mortality associated with menopause occurred at a younger age, conclude Mondul et al, authors of a study published online by American Journal of Epidemiology .

AIDS in India: numbers (very) undervalued (24-11-2005)

The number of new AIDS cases in India is much higher than what the authorities concede Local, an official of UNAIDS. The epidemic is becoming truly alarming proportions in certain areas of the country.

excisions, the struggle continues (24-11-2005)

" We, the representatives of seventy Pulaar communities in the departments of Matam and Podor Kanel meeting this Sunday, November 13, 2005 at Sedo Abass , solemn pledge knowingly, put an end to the practice of female circumcision and early marriage of girls in our communities . "
This is a statement that can be described as historic . The inhabitants of Sedo Abass Senegal and those of 70 surrounding villages have said officially Sunday, November 13 will abandon the practice of FGM with dire consequences both physical and psychological for women and girls who suffer. The number of women and girls mutilated is around 130 million, mostly in Africa and the Arab world, and each year about 2 million girls and young girls are at risk of mutilation. The statement quoted above, and attended by many adolescents, falls within the National Movement for promoting human rights in Senegal, but also in Africa and around the world. Since July 1997, 1,628 communities have decided to put an end to this ancient practice as well as early marriage, promoting the health of women.
( http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200511230542.htm )

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"Humor" dangerous ( 24-11-2005)

Beijing police have jailed a man who had placed on the Chinese part LOIS eBay ad offering babies for sale, reports FindLaw. According to the complainant, it would be a simple joke.


meXi announcement (24-11-2005)

meXi announcement that the laboratory COMEG Waver can now send its results through its services.
Physicians who wish to receive your reports from this new transmitter, send us an email at the following address: support@mexi.be
We also take this info to welcome the new doctors receptors Brussels region.
physicians wishing to receive results from laboratories or hospitals Brussels not yet registered, can report at the following address: info@mexi.be.


Fifth edition of the School of multiple sclerosis (24-11-2005)

League Belgian Multiple Sclerosis - French Community association organizes a four mornings Information reserved for persons diagnosed with multiple sclerosis for less than 2 years and their entourage. An information session on the fifth edition of the "school of MS" will be held Saturday, January 28, 2006 from 10am to 12pm at Naninne (advance registration required). The diagnosis of multiple
sclerosis often raises many questions, both in person with the disease in his entourage. These questions may relate, for example, illness, its treatment, its development or its impact on family life and personal plans.
It is not easy for those concerned to find answers to their questions and meet people with knowledge and time required for quality information, taking into account their sensitivity. Exchange experiences with others in a similar situation is also widely liked.
is why the Belgian League of Multiple Sclerosis - French Community ASBL reissued its "School of MS: four mornings Information (9:30 to 12:30) scheduled for Saturday February 4, February 18, March 11 and March 25 2006 at the Meeting of the League, to Naninne (highway Brussels - Luxembourg, exit 16). Those diagnosed less than 2 years and their entourage will find some answers to their questions. Various speakers will provide their insights into topics.
Interested persons are invited to contact the League by phone at 081/40 15 55 or via its website www.ms- sep.be under "Agenda".

From Be.Health to NL.Health (24-11-2005)

The Dutch Minister of Health Hoogervorst will ask a special adviser, yet to be appointed, to take stock of health care sector regarding the security of personal data, medical records and respect for privacy in computer systems, reports MedNet.

The best friend of man and his health (24-11-2005)

There often has good reason or reasons alleged to discourage good people to have a pet at home. But this is probably not always, far from it good advice. This is shown especially reading the theme issue of British Medical Journal this day dedicated to "Possession of a domestic animal and human health."
Older patients and those recovering from a major disease, in particular, benefit greatly on the medical front, the company of an animal. The authors point out that there is a link between the possession of an animal domestic one hand, and a reduced risk of heart disease, reduced use of medical services (gâche-métiers!) and a diminished risk of asthma and allergy in young children. It appears that truancy is reduced in children with pets. All this takes place through social benefits and emotional support that these animals provide to humans ( BMJ 2005; 331: 1252).

Emerging Infectious Diseases: the worst to come? (24-11-2005)

Emerging infectious diseases represent a global threat to human health and animals. Everyone knows more, but the bad news is that you should be fine getting worse, writes Andrew Cunningham (Institute of Zoology, London), author of an editorial in the BMJ (2005; 331:1214). Pathogens causing these diseases, 75% are said zoonotic (can be transmitted from animals to humans), wild animals are increasingly important sources of these pathogens.
And why do we witnessing now in a rapid rise of these new zoonoses? Contacts increasingly close between man and wild animals play an undeniable role to this regard, notes Cunningham. And cite the examples of HIV and Ebola. The extension of trade and travel should not be overlooked either. These diseases are another side effect of globalization.

The Biotherm for prostate cancer relapsed? (24-11-2005)

Every year, pointed Ivanhoe Newswire , more than 230,000 men, the United States alone, are provided with a diagnosis of prostate cancer. And 30,000 will die. Of the 200 000 treated with apparent success, many people will relapse several years later. For a number of patients, Biotherm is now a recommended option, said a therapist. With the latter, derived from the brachytherapy, radiation is internal and will not really injuring the rectum. This is at least a viable alternative to androgen deprivation therapy, in which the patient eventually anyway by becoming resistant. This option has not yet faced the fire of randomized studies, but the earliest tests are very promising.


The cost of unpaid hospital USA (24-11-2005)

It is not surprising to learn the importance of the problem of unpaid hospital bills in the U.S., when one knows the lamentable state of the insurability of the citizens of Uncle Sam But the numbers are impressive nonetheless. In 2004, the total costs of these unpaid amounted to $ 26.9 billion, or nearly 920 billion old FB, which is 8% more than in 2003, indicated the American Hospital Association.
The cost of lost invoices representing 5.6% of the total expenditure of the hospital sector.


swine flu, another bogeyman? (24-11-2005)

Interest, rightly, to avian flu also puts at the center of attention of other infections that could potentially move from animal to man. Gray and Myers (University of Iowa) and lean in Clinical Infectious Diseases (to be published in the edition of ejanvier 2006) on swine influenza, which are potentially exposed people working with pigs (farmers, veterinary workers the meat industry). Pigs susceptible to infections of influenza viruses of other species, can also serve as hosts able to produce new strains that threaten humans.
Researchers have discovered that many members of the aforementioned professions were HIV positive in this regard. The authors believe however that there is no need to panic. Although severe infections by the virus of swine influenza have been reported in men, the disease would normally be mild or even asymptomatic. Consumption of pork is unlikely to pose any problems either. People who work with pigs should they be included in strategies for monitoring and immunization.


Treating asthma in depth (24-11-2005)

Have you ever heard of speleotherapy? To believe the chief physician of the hospital allergy Ukraine, based in Solotvino, near the Romanian border, it would be a particularly effective alternative treatment for asthma.
Solotvino hides in its entrails, 300 meters underground, a salt mine still in operation but used as a hospital to treat respiratory diseases, particularly asthma. In Eastern Europe, the use of salt mines for therapy for respiratory practiced since the early twentieth century. The temperature is 22 degrees, the air saturated with salt (15mg / m³) is virtually free of microbes and electromagnetic waves. Treatments are 24 days with several raids in the mine by 24 for varying durations. Adults are resting on beds, children can run, but with an obligation to take naps.
5000 patients per year attend this place.
The rating is not too salty.
is free for patients receiving Health Insurance Ukrainian state. Count for the other $ 22 per day. But waiting lists are quite long.

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Mega Darwin exhibition in New York and raise controversies (24-11-2005)


The largest exhibition ever on Darwin , held for several days at the Museum of Natural History in New York, an event that normally would not have raised heated debates, was surrounded by a large part of advertising yet "in the current climate confrontation between creationists and Darwinists , "wrote Le Monde . Prominent figures took the opportunity to reaffirm their positions in this debate somewhat hallucinatory between supporters of Darwin and advocates of intelligent design (creation). " The real culprit is the appallingly low state of culture and science education in this country " notes in particular the president of the museum, quoted by Le Monde .


No Swiss women in the Swiss Guards (24-11-2005)

At a recent press conference, Pope Benedict XVI said that women, even the Swiss, could never become a Swiss Guard. He fears his army into the mix with the risk of producing offspring Swiss. The Swiss Guards are Swiss, Catholic, between 19 and 30, measuring 1.74 m minimum and must have done their basic training in the Swiss Army before applying to the Vatican.
This refusal to integrate women in the army of the Vatican is not surprising from the Catholic hierarchy.
You want to tell the pope, however you should never say never. Because there are secular women working at the Vatican. They currently number 600 to work in the Vatican and the Holy See. The first secular women under 30 years were entered for the first time in the chamber only male in the Vatican in 1961. It should be noted however that until 1967 the secular women who worked at the Vatican were in hiding. They pledged not say where they worked. Secret Mission!
Since ordination is required to obtain a high position in the hierarchy, women are automatically excluded. Nevertheless, they are not limited to the bottom: the Tribunal lawyers of the Holy Roman Rota, doctors of theology, science or religious canon law, psychologists, they have positions of responsibility in important areas such as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (headed until April by a certain Joseph Ratzinger) or are part of the delegations Pontifical Council for the Laity. Women also secular and religious have integrated the International Theological Commission and the Pontifical Academies (Archaeology, Social Sciences). Yet it seemed inconceivable before 1961 ... as now seems inconceivable the idea of having women Swiss Guards. But you should never say never ... What woman wants, God willing, even if it takes time and patience.
(read about the Vatican Male, Lucienne Sallé, Ed Siloe 2000)

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Action "postcards" the HVS (23-11-2005)

The union of Flemish GPs SVH (from the former Flemish wing of GBO-VBO), one of the cornerstones of the movement Domus, has been campaigning for some time that pure general unions can stand for election Medical . At its AGM on Saturday, he will present an action "postcards", within the context of the revival its demand for recognition of unions monodisciplinary generalists. These postcards contain pictures of MG who showed, September 24, in Brussels in favor of this requirement, defined as the HVS point one of its program.


Patch Adams (the real one) opens a Dutch hospital after tomorrow (23-11-2005)

A Dutch hospital, the Spaarne Ziekenhuis, Hoofddorp, who works for a while, will be inaugurated officially this Friday by Dr. Patch Adams, founder of American Cliniclowns, immortalized on screen by Robin Williams. A good sign for what is the mood that its officers and doctors are considering the institution.


In Switzerland, an association of assisted suicide in the storm (23-11-2005)

Founded in 1998, the company Dignitas in Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legalized, helped 453 persons in active phase of terminal illness, among them many foreigners. Dignitas has also opened its first office of "recruitment" in Germany. This "death tourism" is not without debate.
Currently, this organization is under investigation by prosecutors in Augsburg for aiding suicide a German lady of 69 years based on a false medical report. The association would not have made the necessary medical checks and finds himself accused of negligent homicide today. The assisted suicide, although suffering from the beginnings of alcoholic cirrhosis was not in a terminal condition warranting euthanasia. She suffered from mental illness by cons. The Dignitas doctor who performed this assistance has himself committed suicide after learning that the woman he had helped and was not terminally ill. The doctor treating the patient, who signed the false report is also involved too.
President of Dignitas, Ludwig Minelli defends his organization stating that "each person in Europe must have the right to choose his own death even if it is not a terminal illness . It appears that the lawyer Ludwig Minelli has always managed to pull through despite all attempts by the prosecutor in Zurich to end the "death tourism". (Source: BMJ 2005; 331 and http://www.lematin.ch/ )

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Acute coronary syndrome: further tests needed ( JAMA) (23-11-2005)

A study Swap and Nagurney, published in JAMA of date ( 2005; 294: 2623) and aimed at identifying the elements of the history of chest pain that are most useful to the clinician in the identification of acute coronary syndrome in patients presenting with such pain, shows that nothing in this story alone or in combination identify a group of Patients can be discharged from the hospital safely without further tests.


Importance (relative) of blood glucose to predict mortality in ICU (Chest) (23-11-2005)

We typically recommend tight control of blood glucose in patients admitted to intensive care unit , to the extent that hyperglycemia is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. A study of Freire et al, published in Chest ( 2005; 128: 3109), however, shows that the traditional factors of severity of the disease, but not the highest values of blood glucose during 24 hours after admission in ICU predict in-hospital mortality in a medical intensive care unit of a city hospital.

Trial in Florida about inadequate care for poor children (23-11-2005)

Five families of Florida, supported by the Pediatric Society and the Academy of Pediatric Dentistry of the State, filed a trial in Miami against the Florida official agencies managing health care, because Medicaid (social security for needy) does not provide poor children with disabilities and the preventive services they deserve. In fact reimbursement rates very low provided by the system does not motivate doctors and dentists to participate. Among children who received no medical examination this year are, according to the complaint in question, more than 30 000 children under one year, over 152 000 aged 1 to 5 years and over 337 000 between 6 and 18.


Prions, those unknown (23-11-2005)

The Annals of Internal Medicine in their latest edition, published an article on prions, entitled Why Prion Diseases Are a Mystery and Why Theys Matter ( Ann Intern Med 2005; 143: 773). There are several prion diseases in humans, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and its new variant, but they are rare. The incidence in the USA, for example, is one in a million. But research in this area is also valuable because it gives clues to other neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease. The author describes why prions are difficult to study, launched into the controversy of whether they are primary infectious agents, if they abuse the immune system and concludes with future research directions.


Internet Doctor, I presume (23-11-2005)

They are almost 32 million in the U.S. use the Internet as their main source of information on health, which represents 50% more than a year ago barely, according to a survey by Manhattan Research. There were 99 million in total to seek health information on the Net.

One third of Canadians buy online (23-11-2005)

According to a survey conducted in August 2005, 33% of Canadians shopping online this year against 28% Previous reports Le Journal du Net.