Wife Wants Me In A Girdle

THE DOCTOR'S LETTER No. 366

The daily figure : a Gustav Klimt painting was sold for $ 107.4 million. Only a Picasso painting has done better so far.

June 21 of that year

First day of summer
1781: Birth of Simeon-Denis Poisson, a pioneer in integral calculus and electromagnetic theory.
1863: Birth of Albert Sauveur, Belgian-born American pioneer of physical metallurgy.
1880: birth of Arnold (Lucius) Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician, promoting the use of the camera for the study of development physical and mental development of children.
1894: Yersin isolated the plague bacillus.
1898: Donald Culross Peattie born, American writer and botanist, author of numerous books on plants.
1991: Berlin capital of reunited Germany.
1819: Birth of Jacques Offenbach.

Quote of the Day: " It takes two to lie: one to lie and one to listen ." English Proverb

Website of the Day: American Obesity Association - Childhood Obesity


Titles publishing

In vitro fertilization, a positive investment for the economy
Domus Medica and SVH: the persistent lack of love
The climate is a strike in the hospital world
The German trade union struggle of French GPs through the visit to 31 euros
French Gays more prone to HIV risk
The National Cancer Institute in France in the eye of the cyclone
aggressive reduction of blood pressure in coronary patients: it is quiet!
cashews to improve blood pressure control
The weight of advertising is crucial in the children
Another beneficial effect of statins (JAMA)
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In vitro fertilization, a positive investment for the economy

We explained yesterday about Michigan, how much health care was of economic perspective, though anything but a source of expenditure. Today, the BBC reflected the findings of British researchers who point out that in vitro fertilization, far from being a costly operation, is an investment for the community.
British researchers calculated that if the "creation" of a baby IVF costs 13,000 pounds (19,000 €), each child contributes £ 147,000 (approx. € 215,000) in taxes and insurance to the country's economy. For those researchers, this is one more reason that the NHS reimburses three IVF cycles, which would result in generating 10,000 more babies over 2 or 3 years.



Domus Medica and SVH: the persistent lack of love

The position of Flemish teachers of general practice, welcoming the development of Domus Medica and the decision of its leaders not to play the card Association, remained in the craw of many of MF in the north, especially the initial core of the movement Domus. The HVS has released a statement deploring, too, the attitude of teachers and, more broadly, the aforementioned developments. It strongly deplores such a point close to the heart to the original initiators of Domus, namely the cessation of Domus any union role, a point yet considered essential at the outset is the HVS. But we learn in the last minute that AC Domus never took the contested decision, passed by the teachers in Artsenkrant . The


climate is a strike in the German hospital world

After the tug-of-war around the German university hospitals, a new episode is coming, the next municipal hospitals this time, the weekly Focus reported, this Obviously that will affect many more practitioners and patients. The Marburger Bund, German medical union, is expected to announce a strike by 70,000 doctors working in municipal hospitals. This is still essentially a question of fees, arguing that municipalities rather pitiful state of municipal finances doctors to deny what they deem worthy.



The union struggle of French GPs through the visit to 31 euros

"You always fight for what makes sense," writes UNOF (National Union of French GPs) in its weekly bulletin, stressing that "the trade union struggle passes through the V-31 EUR ."



French Gays more prone to HIV risk

The finding that reverberated Liberation in its edition of yesterday more than worrying, as the Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Institut de Veille Sanitaire French, "the proportion of men who had at least one unprotected anal intercourse with casual partners during the past 12 months has increased steadily since the late 90s to around 35%. The French daily also as an article: "HIV, a risk made by some homosexuals."



The National Cancer Institute in France in the eye of the cyclone


was known, Some years ago, the turmoil of its kind in Belgium in the world in the fight against cancer. This time the National Cancer Institute (Inca) in France is the center of a lively debate. The Parisian note that the Inca "is fiercely criticized for its management in an audit report of the Economic and Financial Control." Delivered yesterday to the Budget Minister Jean-Francois Cope, the report contains a particularly harsh burden request, in veiled terms, starting from the president of the Institute.



aggressive reduction of blood pressure in coronary patients: it is quiet!


"The aggressive reduction of blood pressure in hypertensive patients with coronary artery disease can it be dangerous?" Is the question of What real significance in the clinic wanted to meet Messerli et al, authors of a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (Ann Intern Med 2006; 144:884). Their conclusion is that the answer to this question is positive, the relationship between the PA and all-cause mortality and the occurrence of heart attack takes the form of a J-curve Therefore, the authors note, it should avoid an excessive reduction of diastolic pressure in coronary patients treated for hypertension.



cashews to improve blood pressure control


A diet rich in cashew nut improves baroreflex sensitivity and thereby regulating blood pressure. This is the conclusion of a study of South African Schutte et al, published in the American Journal of Hypertension (2006; 19:629). Cashew nuts are actually rich in monounsaturated fatty acids.


The weight of advertising is crucial in the children


Sedentary lifestyle and high calorie foods are the major risk factors of overweight and obesity in children. An article in The New England Journal of Medicine (N Engl J Med 2006; 354:2527) denounces the role played by advertising aimed at children and adolescents. The exponential increase in childhood obesity in recent years is linked to the promotion of food 'harmful' (soda, fast food, candybar, chips, etc.). Advertising to children influences their food choices. The study shows that 30% of calories ingested by children in the U.S. are made by such foods. EB-M



Another beneficial effect of statins


Statin use in the general population is associated with a decreased risk nuclear cataract, the type of cataract most common age-related, Klein et al conclude, the authors of a study published in JAMA (2006; 295:2752).




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paradoxical figures
American Tai Chi Chuan, a sovereign order the 3rd age
Bayer about to finalize the purchase of Schering AG
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to Monitor Released (June 20, 2006).

• Ministerial Order amending the Schedule to the Order Royal 21 December 2001 laying down the procedures, terms and conditions relating to the insurance and mandatory health care benefits in the cost of specialty pharmaceuticals (p. 31320)
• Ministerial Order amending the Schedule to the Order Royal 21 December 2001 laying down the procedures, terms and conditions relating to the insurance and mandatory health care benefits in the cost of specialty pharmaceuticals (p. 31331)
• amend certain provisions of the Civil Code for allow adoption by same sex (p. 31128)
• Ministerial Decree amending the list annexed to the Royal Decree of 21 December 2001 laying down the procedures, terms and conditions relating to the insurance and mandatory health care benefits in the cost of specialty pharmaceuticals (p. 31137)
• Ministerial Decree amending the list annexed to the Royal Decree of 21 December 2001 laying down the procedures, terms and conditions relating to the insurance and mandatory health care benefits in the cost of specialty pharmaceuticals (p. 31178)
• Ministerial Decree amending the Schedule to Royal Decree of 21 December 2001 laying down the procedures, terms and conditions relating to the insurance and mandatory health care benefits in the cost of specialty pharmaceuticals (p. 31205)
• Royal decree for the year 1996, the conditions and specific rules governing the pricing of hospital day, the budget funds and the quota of hospital inpatient days and hospital services (p. 31212) • Royal Decree amending
ministerial decree of 2 August 1986 laying down for hospitals and hospital services, conditions and rules for determining the price the day of hospitalization, the budget and its components, and the rules for comparing the cost of fixing the quota of hospital days (p. 31213)
• Order Royal amending the Royal Decree of 6 December 2001 regarding the appointment and functions of management and leadership within the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (p. 31214) • Royal Decree
amending the Royal Decree of 20 February 2003 on the designation and functions of management within the Federal Center of Expertise for Health Care (p. 31215)
• Ministerial Order appoints or approves members of the Departmental Appeals Board for the Federal Public Service Social Security (p.31242)
• Ministerial Order appoints or approves members the county Board of Appeal of the Federal Public Service Social Security to take charge of Assessment Appeals (p. 31244)

Plate Covers In Alberta

doctor's letter No. 365

The daily figure: Nearly 20,000 Belgians have no roof for shelter (reference: the 6minutes Belgium decrypted).

On 20 June this year

1773: Death of Georg Christian Füchsel, German physician and pioneer in geology.
1861: Birth of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of the role of vitamins.
1865: Birth of George Redmayne Murray, an English doctor pioneer of endocrine disorders.
1875: Birth of Reginald Punnett Crundall, one of the first English geneticists.
1925: death of Josef Breuer, Austrian physician and physiologist with whom Freud worked in its infancy.
1966: death of Georges (Henri) Lemaître, Belgian priest and astronomer who formulated the first theory of the Big Bang.

Quote of the Day: " Caresses never transformed into a tiger kitten ." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

To read on the Web: a time when the world is football Tens of millions of people in suspense, the French medical site Doctissimo addresses the problem of doping, where football has seemingly nothing to envy to cycling.

Titles publishing
• The MR is mobilized also for pediatricians
• Minutes of the AGM on Saturday FAG
• The first 'hotel care' Opens in Belgian Ghent
• Women doctors face menopause
• The emotional abuse of older women a scourge
• The number of rapes in freefall USA
• Cannabis, a serious pest in France
• Suicide and the menstrual cycle: relationship troubles
• The major contribution of healthcare to the economy • The
wheel turns for rheumatism
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The MR is also mobilizing for pediatricians

whole profession was already behind pediatricians, in particular since the defense of the intellectual act was the center of debate. Just as the political opposition, like the CD & V (ex-CVP). Yesterday is also within the same coalition that some cracks have data to show. Chairman MR, Didier Reynders, "conscious of the very great difficulties already experienced hospitals recruit pediatricians, met a delegation of doctors on Monday 19 June afternoon with Daniel Bacquelaine, Chairman of MR in the House of Representatives ". The statement
( click here to read the full text ) published by the MR after this interview clearly calls " revision of the draft program of pediatric care and the granting of retroactive pediatricians in appreciation of their honoraria .



Minutes of the AGM on Saturday FAG

Denis Botton, Secretary General of AGRF, wrote an account of the most interesting to the attention of the members of his association. A text that has nothing official, while summing up what has been discussed. Some items are more specific association above mentioned, but the interest of the report seemed obvious to all.
( click here to read the full text )




The first 'hotel care' Opens in Belgian Ghent

The Standaard leans in its edition today on first hotel of care opened in Belgium. This is what opened in Ghent, at the initiative of organizing care Solidariteit voor het Gezin liberal ('Solidarity for the Family'), this formula under the name Seniorcity. Cost structure: 15.5 million euros. Everything is made to never remember a retirement home classic. Cost for residents: 49 euros per day.
The initiator specifies the Standaard that not only the 64 rooms are booked for ages, but also that the waiting list takes "enormous proportions".



Women Physicians facing menopause

A survey entitled WOMEN (women doctors and menopause), which aimed to assess the eyes of women doctors on menopause and its management, was held in 2002 before the publication of study WHI (Women's Health Initiative). The results of the U.S. study has probably changed the look of these women doctors, a new survey conducted by women was a group of experts, from May to September 2003. Its main objective was to assess possible changes in the medical management of menopause current or future of these women, but also change the behavior of their patients vis-à-vis the hormonal treatment of menopause. A self-administered questionnaire was sent by post to the same 10,000 women physicians, gynecologists and MG, working in France, menopausal or not and regardless of their age. 1365 women responded (or 18.5% of gynecologists and 11% of GPs contacted).
"Unlike a large proportion of their patients, these women doctors have kept an attraction for the majority of menopausal hormone therapies present or future. Only the procedures for administration of these treatments have changed, "Jamin et al conclude, the authors of the study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology Fertility (2006; 34: 499).



The emotional abuse of older women is a scourge

A study by Fisher and Regan, published in The Gerontologist ( 2006; 41: 20 )
concludes that the high frequency of abuse against older women. Nearly half of them had at least one type of abuse (psychological / emotional, authoritarianism, threats, violence physical or sexual) from the age of 55. A significant proportion of these victims of abuse have been repeatedly. The purely psychological and emotional abuse increases the risk of occurrence of physical symptoms in affected women.



The number of rape cases freefall USA

The number of rapes in the U.S. fell by more than 85% since the '70s. The trend continued last year, along with other violent crimes increased. But as noted by the Washington Post , these figures reflect only reported rapes. Most experts, but not all, however, still believe in an actual decline in rapes that occur in the United States, but can not explain the phenomenon.



Cannabis, a serious pest in France

15% of 17 year olds smoke more joints per week, risking their health and their education, "wrote Le Figaro . And clarify that "thirty years after the publication of 'Call of 18 joint' requesting 'decriminalization of cannabis', the French paradox remains. While the legislation in force in France is the most severe Europe, nothing seems able to stop the surge in consumption of cannabis, which has doubled in ten years. "
These are now in fact 3.3 million French people smoke a joint at least annually, while 10% of them are dependent.



Suicide and the menstrual cycle: relationship troubles

A review of the literature conducted by researchers at the Warneford Hospital and the University of Oxford, on 44 studies of suicide and published in Psychological Medicine (2006; 36: 901), has highlighted a link between suicide attempts and menstrual cycle. Although the methodology of various studies did not draw definite conclusions, it appears that suicide attempts are more frequent during the first week of the cycle, corresponding to the period when estrogen levels are lower. Furthermore, the correlation between menstrual cycle and suicidal behavior also seems higher in women with premenstrual syndrome. The explanation may lie in the interaction between estrogen and the serotonergic system.

EB-M



The major contribution of healthcare to the economy

A recent study in Michigan, a state whose population is very close to that of Belgium, can still remember how health care is a major economic activity in a country. They provide in fact, recalls AHA News, journal of the American Hospital Association, 737,000 direct and indirect jobs (making it the number one employer in Michigan) and 31.6 billion in wages and salaries. And this should set to continue.



The wheel turns for rheumatism Rheumatism

and sports do not seem to rhyme. This has not prevented the Royal Belgian Society of Rheumatology (RBRS) to the news last Saturday with a 20km bike ride around Antwerp. They were no less than 420 cyclists wanting to attract the attention on the problem of rheumatic diseases in children. We noted the presence, among the politicians, Yves Leterme, Minister-President of Flanders, Patrick Janssens, mayor of Antwerp, the Flemish Minister Kris Peeters and various aldermen and councilors Antwerp. And French-speaking Belgium ensured a presence that was not only symbolic.
Before kickoff, Professor Filip De Keyser (Ghent University) has largely emphasized the importance of physical activity for people suffering from osteoarthritis and other disorders of the musculoskeletal system. It was also distributed for the first time bikes Bronze with people who went deserving in the fight against rheumatism.
Steven Defour is 15 and has a severe form of childhood arthritis. Despite his handicap, he is very active: he plays table tennis, cycling is a tricycle with orthopedic and devoted himself selflessly to others. Representative just those who are not resigned to disease, he received a Bronze Bike hands of Yves Leterme.
Family Van Esch is heavily hit by the disease of rheumatic Anner, their son, who is a happy yet. The Bronze Bike Anne received the Minister Kris Peeters reward families who manage to form a winning team despite their child's arthritis.
Dr. Griet De Brabanter was she, struck by a condition such as a child. She received her Bronze Bike hands of the Emperor of Herentals, Rik Van Looy, himself.
As for the bike ride it a resounding success, thanks to the sun, which was the game. At the end, a popular festival with over 500 participants took place. And a group of rheumatologists have motivated réenfourché their bikes to pedal to Amsterdam, the conference venue of Rheumatology EULAR 2006.

Jan Bosman



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Merger of Nokia Networks and Siemens
Israelis and Palestinians agreed at the same time in the Cross Red?
For some books, bacteriological warfare accessible to all on-line
Charitable donations reach over 260 billion U.S. in 2005


Charitable donations reach over 260 billion U.S. in 2005


urgent needs related to three major natural disasters, the tsunami in Asia, the earthquake in Pakistan and Hurricane Rita pushed philanthropic donations to a particularly high level in the U.S., according to a report by the Giving USA Foundation. The report estimates that Americans gave in 2005 about 260.28 billion dollars.



For some books, bacteriological warfare accessible to all on-line

The British daily The Guardian managed to get on line and for the modest sum of 33 pounds and 8 cents (plus £ 7 postage) DNA sequence required the synthesis of smallpox virus.
A study would also demonstrated that it would be virtually impossible for man to resist the virus and that even in case of contamination of a dozen people, viral propagation is such that in six months, two million people are infected. According
Guardian , anyone - and therefore any terrorist - could acquire the DNA sequences of pathogens via the Internet, since there is no regulation or law in this area to prevent it.

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Israelis and Palestinians agreed at the same time within the Red Cross?


Israelis and Palestinians must in principle be simultaneously entering in the Committee of the Red Cross, following an international conference to be held today at Genevève announces including L'Orient-Le day. "The conference is to ratify formally, by a change statutes, an agreement reached in December 2005 between the 192 Member States of the Committee about the creation of a new emblem, a red crystal, alongside the existing two symbols: the red cross and red crescent. The new emblem should allow the Magen David Adom (MDA - Red Shield of David), the Israeli relief society, incorporate the International Committee of which he was never part because its hallmark, the Star of David was not recognized . "




Merger of Nokia Networks and Siemens


Nokia and Siemens merged their networks for 25 billion euros, Les Echos reported . The resulting entity, Nokia Siemens Networks, will weigh about 16 billion euros of turnover. It is expected to generate 1.5 billion euros in annual synergies by 2010, says the French economic daily.





Released in Monitor (June 19, 2006)

• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 23 March 1982 laying down the personal intervention of the beneficiaries or the intervention of the Care Insurance Health fees for certain benefits (p. 31057)
• Royal Decree amending the provisions of Articles 2 and 25, para. para. 1 and 2 d) of the annex to the Royal Decree of 14 September 1984 establishing the nomenclature of the benefits of health insurance and compulsory health benefits (p. 31058)
• Royal Decree granting a subsidy the "Belgian Center for Pharmacotherapeutic Information" for 2006 (p. 30925)
• Ministerial Decree amending the ministerial decree of 17 March 2003 concerning appointments to the advisory panel as provided in Article 6 of Order Royal June 6, 1960 on the manufacturing, wholesale distribution of drugs and their delivery (p. 30948)

Grey Goose Liquor Wholesale

doctor's letter No. 364

The daily figure: 14 billion bullets are manufactured every year worldwide.

June 19 of that year

Feast of St. Gervais (rheumatism have sometimes been described as disease of St. Gervais).
1862: Abolition of escavage
United States 1903: Birth of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and who gave his name to Gehrig's disease.
1944: The U.S. won the battle Philippines.
1953: very controversial execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, accused of spying for the USSR.
1964: vote in the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 after a long legislative battle
1970: Conservative's surprise victory in legislative elections Edward Heath in Britain.

Quote of the Day: " This is not because things are difficult that we dare not, because we do not dare that things are difficult . Seneca.

Website of the Day: Against Censorship on the Net: Free Expression on the Internet (For Human Rights Watch)

To read on the Web: the guidelines ACC / AHA for the management of patients with valvular


Titles publishing

A woman died as a result officially syndrome Chronic Fatigue
SVH: Benefits outside normal hours should be seriously increased
Measles rode again in Germany
The British general practices will not be listed
Controversy in France around the exclusion of gays from donating blood
Treating Depression, an economic imperative
Hemorrhage medical Poland
Two minute delay for clamping the umbilical cord: a boost for iron stores
vegetables prevent atherosclerosis effectively
New delisting of drugs in France provided additional information
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A woman died as a result of officially chronic fatigue syndrome

It's not a hoax, but information reported by New Scientist : Chronic fatigue syndrome (SFC) was to the first time, recorded as the cause of death. And this after acute renal failure due to dehydration, which itself is running the SFC which the patient suffered for six years. The pathologist said he found inflammatory lesions in dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord.



SVH: Benefits outside normal hours should be seriously increased

The HVS states have defended at the last meeting of the Medico-mut "a more correct multiplier system, which would avoid a number of consultations becomes less honored as part of the consultation and this weekend due to an error attributed to ASGB. Benefits evenings and weekends would be given a multiplier 2 and those of night a factor of 3. " benefits made evening after hours of work must be substantially increased " says Baeke and Rufiji (HVS).


Measles rode again in Germany

Ten years later another episode like that, in 1996, Germany has in recent weeks a new alert from measles, at a particularly inappropriate because of the football World Cup. Eurosurveillance Weekly reported in its edition of May 11, 2006 a thousand cases in the state of Nordrhein Westfalen.



The British general practices will not be listed

is the British Medical Journal who reported in his column for general information, suspension of an initiative of the Royal College of General Practitioners, who wanted, according to a news published in the Times , establish a rating system for general practice. The very strong reactions among MG prompted the Royal College to suspend discussion he was engaged in conduct with the Department of Health to implement such a system. Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical Association, welcomes in particular the reverse.



Controversy in France around the exclusion of gays from donating blood is

Le Monde reports that: permanent exclusion of gay men blood donation has raised, to the Day World Blood Donor, a controversy quite lively in France since " Jack Lang denounced a discriminatory measure, while the Minister of Health and Solidarity holds the arguments advanced by those responsible for safety . The Minister made particular note that the prevalence of HIV infection in sexually active male homosexual population is 12.3% against 0.2% in the general population. " So it's not being homosexual, but the practice of sex between men is a cons to donation of blood. Moreover, female homosexuality is not an indication -cons, "says yet Minister.



Treating Depression, an economic imperative


Data insurers should convince employers to offer health care coverage that encourages workers to be examined and treated for depression, especially in co-morbidity. It concludes that R. Daly, author of an article in Psychiatric News (2006; 41: 19) and the following analysis of nearly 37,000 records submitted to a leading insurer in U.S. health care .



Hemorrhage medical Poland


"Poland is losing its health professionals' under this title that Le Figaro deals flight of white coats to heaven financially more lenient, such as the United Kingdom. And to specify that 10% of emergency physicians and 15% of Polish anesthesiologists are willing to leave their country. The British them very actively recruiting in Poland, placing them in local newspapers ads like 'Dentists, welcome to England! " We understand the attraction of the West on the Polish health professionals, when we know that the salary basis of a doctor in a public hospital is about 1,500 Polish zlotys per month, or 385 euros.



Two minute delay for clamping the umbilical cord: a boost for iron stores


Wait two more minutes before clamping the umbilical cord after delivery can significantly increase the baby's iron stores and prevent anemia for months, Dewey et al conclude, nutritionists at the University of California at Davis and author of a study on babies Mexican and published in The Lancet ( 2006; 367: 1997).


vegetables prevent atherosclerosis effectively


A study by Adams et al, published in the Journal of Nutrition ( J Nutr 2006; 136: 1886) shows that mice fed with vegetables significantly reduce the fatty deposits in their arteries. According to officials of the British Heart Foundation, this study shows that the recommendation to take five servings of fruits and vegetables per day is largely justified.


New delisting of drugs planned in France


The Transparency Commission of the High Authority for Health (HAS) should recommend the Government to initiate a third wave of delisting of drugs whose medical record is deemed inadequate, announce Les Echos. "This new wave , which deals with vasodilators, however, should be more limited than the first two ," says the French economic daily. This is to reduce the social security deficit to just under $ 3 billion.



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The French Association of Urology for the individual screening for prostate cancer
A medical hoax: Cough, and you will be resurrected
philanthropist Bill Gates full time
About vampire bat
Storm on Liberation


The French Association of Urology for the individual screening for prostate cancer


prostate cancer poses a major public health problem and the question of its mass screening remains controversial constantly renewed. The French Association of Urology (AFU) does ranks in any case not on the side of the skeptics in this regard and, based on nonrandomized studies and / or retrospective finding a benefit in terms of mortality through screening, currently recommends screening individual recall Echo et al, authors published in the Journal of Urology (2006; 40: 179).


A medical hoax: Cough, and you will be resurrected


The hoaxes are purely medical in comparison with other subjects (such as silver, for example) relatively few on the Net, even if we know The classic action for sick children.
Hoaxbuster draws attention to a message 'medical' happens to us United States after transiting from Quebec: "It would be so simple to save lives in case of heart attack: coughing violently would make a sort of self cardiac massage and avoid losing consciousness until help arrives. As usual for this type of message, a scientific justification must be furnished by the issuer of the Hoax, a professor at the University of Laval in Quebec. "


philanthropist Bill Gates full time


Bill Gates will gradually relinquish his duties as executive head of Microsoft to devote himself full time to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with a known role in the fight against scourges such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria for vaccinations in the Third World. This should definitely change the business methods of MS, so challenged, including by the European authorities. As recalled Le Journal du Net , the operating system of Microsoft Windows, is present in 90% of computers worldwide.


About vampire bat


The vampire bat, the only mammal that feeds exclusively on blood, apparently recognizes its prey from breathing it. A study Wiegreber and Groeger (University of Munich), published in the journal BMC Biology Open Access ( 2006; 4: 18) shows that Desmodus rotundus, one of three species of vampire bats, greater recognition of the recorded sound of human breath that men themselves.


wind storm Liberation


The French daily Liberation should obviously continue without Serge July, the founder, with Jean-Paul Sartre, the newspaper and head of the paper for 33 years. The main shareholder is considered in effect as responsible for serious losses they suffered in recent times. Thus closes a chapter in the history of a newspaper which was previously a model of its kind for many journalists of all backgrounds.





Released in Monitor (June 16, 2006)

• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 29 December 1997 laying down the conditions under which the application of the law on compulsory health insurance and allowances, Coordinated July 14, 1994, is extended to self-employed and members of religious communities, p. 30640.
• Ministerial Order approving the internal regulations of the Commission for reimbursement. Erratum, P. 30642.
• Flemish Government Decree on the governance of aid and assistance to the social integration of disabled people and the approval and subsidization of "Vlaams Platform Verenigingen van van personen met een handicap" ( Flemish Platform of Associations of People with Disabilities), p. 30654.
• Government Decree amending Flemish Flemish Government Decree of 1 March 2002 laying down the conditions for approval and subsidy assistance centers to help children and families (p. 30675)
• Management Committee of the Crossroads Bank social security. Resignation and Appointment, P. 30747.
• Ministerial Decree amending the ministerial order of March 9, 2006 appointing the external members of advisory committees acquisition of certain scientific institutions of the State under the Minister of Science Policy has within its remit, established as departments of the state with separate management, p. 30755.
• Selection of comparative physical therapists (m / f) (grade A), French-speaking, for the service "Medium Care" the Burn Centre of the Ministry of Defence (AFG06010), p. 30790.

Projector That Uses Sunlight

doctor's letter No. 363

The daily figure: costs of health care in the U.S. increased by 7% per year at present.

on June 16 of that year

1858: death of John Snow, English physician pioneered the study of cholera.
1905: Birth of Edward Jakob Schmidt, American physician who described the effect Schmidt, optical illusion involving vertical lines on a television screen.
1963: the Soviets sent the first woman in space.

Website of the Day: The Whole Brain Atlas

Quote of the Day: "Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly." Voltaire

To read on the Net: Medical problems related to the intensive use of the computer, a folder of Journal du Net

Titles publishing

Strike hospital paediatricians: today
Euthanasia, an upcoming election issue in France?
The NHS deficit widens seriously
Training via Internet portal for physicians MediPlanet: diabetes and cardiovascular risk
millions of preventable deaths
A strike by resident doctors in New Zealand
Aids in Iran, a health problem major public
supplementation with iron and Vit A in children with malaria
green tea against tobacco: the Asian paradox
lice are resisting
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READ IN MEDI-SPHERE No. 262 - Treatment of acute myocardial acute myocardial infarction with ST-elevation
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Strike hospital paediatricians: today

We've talked several times, but today is the D-Day for pediatric hospital. The Belgian Academy of Pediatrics, the Absym and GBS have in fact organized a one-day strike by hospital paediatricians to be held this Friday, June 16 to protest against the financial strangulation of the profession, the lack of genuine consultation with the profession and the failure of past promises.
A recent provision of the law-health is particularly interested in the sights of, namely the prohibition of charging extra fees when parents or one of them accompanying a child in a single room. The provisions of permanence hospital also pose a huge problem for hospital paediatricians, generally too few.



Euthanasia, an upcoming election issue in France?

In any case the question posed by the International Journal of Medicine in his edition of date. As stated in the JIM, " the parliamentary information mission on the cover end of life led by the UMP Jean Léonetti (Alpes Maritimes) and the Socialist Gaetan Gorce (Nièvre) had not ruled in favor to decriminalization of euthanasia, but had nevertheless sought the adoption of a new law on supporting the end of life, to clarify the ambiguous promise of the law on patients' rights (Loi Kouchner) March 2002 . Referral to the foundations of a doctor and a nurse, first, the acquittal a Dane 37 years that ended the suffering of his wife giving him an overdose of tranquilizers on the other hand, have recently highlighted this debate Quiévrain overseas.


The NHS deficit widens seriously

policy of rationing of care conducted in the UK could not prevent the NHS's overall deficit to widen dramatically. The deficit in the national health system has more than doubled in England, recalls the BMJ. It is indeed spent 750 million euros for 2005-6.


millions of preventable deaths

Nearly a quarter (23%) of all premature deaths can be attributed to environmental factors that can change and prevention, says a WHO report, passed by the British Medical Journal . WHO analyzed to arrive at this conclusion, the influence of environmental factors on various diseases and especially on 85 of the 102 major diseases. To cite one example, approximately 800,000 children are affected by lead exposure.



A strike by resident doctors in New Zealand

It is now the second day of a strike by medical residents (numbering 2,500 in the country) in hospitals in New Zealand. The Resident Doctors Association
launched a 5-day strike, which became effective yesterday after a failed attempt last-minute negotiations. The conflict focuses on times very painful and permanent night duty in hospitals.



Aids in Iran, a major public health problem


HIV is a major public health problems in Iran, note Mardani et al (Tehran), submitters to the 12th Congress of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), which is being held in Lisbon. AIDS has killed 1,323 since the beginning of the epidemic. Nearly half of current cases of HIV are related to substance use and needle sharing, sexual contact is to blame in 22% and transfusions in 21% of cases. It is important to improve education and prevention about HIV, particularly among young adults, and conclude Mardani al.



iron supplementation and lives In children with malaria


A study Zofou et al (Yaoundé), presented at the congress of the same ISID, shows that supplementation with iron and vitamin A can remarkably improve the treatment results of malaria when given to children with.



green tea against tobacco: the Asian paradox


A study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (2006; 202: 813) explained by the consumption of green tea reduced the incidence cardiovascular diseases and cancer in Asia notwithstanding smoking significantly higher than that observed in Western countries. There is no satisfactory explanation for this paradox Asia. But the Yale researchers found that consumption of 1.2 liters of green tea per day had a significant antioxidant effect, and what the effect of a substance which, by preventing the oxidation of LDL-Cholesterol would play a key role in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis. The same substance would prevent the development of tumors, and improve metabolism and function of different organs.
The mechanism of action of green tea should be further studies to be elucidated. But even if its composition is beneficial, the fact remains that smoking cessation remains the number one preventive factor for cardiovascular disease.

EB-M


lice are resisting


According to a study published in Archives of Disease in Childhood by a team from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, who spent 3,000 children of Wales combing, 8% of children were infected with Pediculus humanus. And 82% of these bugs were carrying genes expressing resistance to pyrethrum, a major insecticide, with malathion, used against these parasites.

EB-M



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Fight against smoking in the USA:
can do better by heredity or environment, parents influence food preferences
children finish the old excuse
Condoms in tobacconists in France



READ IN MEDI-SPHERE No. 262 - Treatment of the acute phase of acute myocardial infarction with ST-elevation

Pierre Materne
Cardiology, CHR de la Citadelle, Liege


treatment of acute myocardial infarction with ST-elevation (STEMI) may be subdivided into two main sections: first, treatment of the acute phase of the strategy that is hospitable and Secondly, the output processing which is the secondary prevention (discussed in a forthcoming article). Mechanical reperfusion by angioplasty (primary PCI has acquired its letters of nobility, and international recommendations based on evidence based medicine to clarify the indications and motivate this article. I will therefore follow step by step and in summary the recent recommendations of the European Society of Cardiology / American Heart Association published in 2004 (1).
Time is muscle gained or lost, it is important that all steps described below are directed toward one goal: to open the coronary artery responsible for infarction in the best conditions and as soon as possible.

Link to full article (PDF 88 KB)




to Monitor Released (those 14 and June 15, 2006)

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of September 14 1984 establishing the nomenclature of the benefits of health insurance and compulsory health benefits (p. 30247)
• Royal Decree establishing an evaluation cycle for the Fund for Relief and Welfare Fund for Sailors in pursuance of Chapter VII of the Royal Decree of 8 January 1973 establishing the status of staff in some public interest organizations (p. 30248)
• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 14 September 1984 establishing the classification of health benefits in terms of compulsory insurance and health care benefits (p. 30249) • Royal Decree amending
Royal Decree of 14 September 1984 establishing the classification of health benefits in insurance and mandatory health care benefits (p. 30250)
• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 14 September 1984 establishing the classification of benefits health insurance and mandatory health care benefits (p.30252)
• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 25 November 1991 establishing the list of specific occupational titles reserved to practitioners of the art of medicine, including the dentistry (p. 30254)
• Ministerial Decree setting criteria Special medical specialists involved registrations of specific professional title holders in medical oncology as well as tutors and placement services for that specialty (p. 30254)
• Government Decree fixing the overall concept of health promotion in community germanophone (p. 30315)
• Ministerial Order approving the tutors in general practice (p. 30344)
• Scientific Institute of Public Health (IPH). Jobs to give (p. 30376)
• Scientific Institute of Public Health (IPH). Jobs to give (p. 30380)

Thursday, June 15, 2006 • Council of State: French Union of Orthodontists in Belgium "UFOB" professional union established in the Brussels region (p. 30584)
• Professional Union of Osteopaths university, professional association established in the judicial district Brussels (p. 30585)

Men Sauna In Abu Dhabi

doctor's letter No. 362

The daily figure: 20% of the Japanese population is aged over 65

On 15 June this year

1215: King John Lackland sealed the Magna Carta
1809: birth of Henri Roger, who described the breath corresponds to the septal
1844: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for the vulcanization of rubber
1867: first successful cholecystectomy performed in Indiana
1996: Death of Ella Fitzgerald

Website of the Day: The Story of PC Chronology of Personal Computers

Quote of the Day: "When a distinguished scientist but older that something is possible, it is almost certainly right. When he says something is impossible, he is very probably wrong . Arthur C. Clarke

Titles Publishing

socio-economic and stroke in the elderly population in the U.S.
effective gene therapy in mice with Huntington's Implantable Defibrillators
: a double-edged sword?
Brain drain: a just reward
Philadelphia schools do not joke with the fast food
Resignation of Patrick Moriau
Divorce declining U.S.
Tattoos: a practice increasingly common in the U.S. condemned
Spam
Crimes in France still rising in the U.S. Additional information
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Disparities socio-economic and stroke in the elderly population in the U.S.

There are substantial socioeconomic disparities in the U.S. in the occurrence of stroke between 65 and 74 years, a higher incidence of stroke was observed in populations socio economically less-advantaged, Avendano et al conclude, authors of a study published in Dutch-American Stroke ( 2006; 37: 1368). Beyond 75 years is, however, the population easier to show more strokes.



effective gene therapy in mice with Huntington

Researchers from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and Ceregene Inc.. (San Diego) have succeeded, through gene therapy by intracerebral injection, to stop the neurodegeneration and improve behavioral functions in mice with Huntington's disease.


implantable defibrillators: a double-edged sword?

Implantable defibrillators save lives undeniably, but they could also increase the risk of heart failure, Goldenberg et al conclude, one study Follow-up of the MADIT-II and published online by Circulation . But it should be noted that some patients who have had their lives extended by such a settlement were more severely ill and were more intended to develop heart failure, as Ilan Goldenberg points out, lead author of the study.



Brain drain: a just reward

Thousands of scientists who have left their country to settle in countries more attractive as the U.S. or Europe, under the leakage phenomenon brain, will help them country of origin if there were effective mechanisms for doing so. And rich countries who benefit from this brain drain should establish such mechanisms. It concludes that Canadian researchers, working, them, in a country which houses some 15,000 scientists and health experts from developing countries. Their study is published tomorrow in the journal Science .



Philadelphia schools do not joke with the fast food

Parents who come to see their children in schools in Philadelphia will no longer provide them with snacks consisting of fast food and would asked to share with them the school meal if they want to eat with them.



Resignation of Patrick Moriau


President of the Socialist Federation of Charleroi, Patrick Moriau, resigned because he has not been supported in his reform proposals, including Le Soir reported. Originally press officer Philippe Busquin when he was Minister of Social Affairs, it quickly became his trusted. It is sad to note that he was crushed by a machine that only offers Carolo vote on a silver platter to the far right.



Divorce declining U.S.


The number of divorces is declining in the U.S., but it's probably more due to the increasing number of cohabitants who do not marry at an increased strength of unions , according to a study by the National Marriage Project at New Jersey's Rutgers University.



Tattoos: a practice increasingly common in the USA


According to a study by American dermatologists and published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology , 24% of Americans between 18 and 50 years bears a tattoo. This proportion rises to 36% if one takes into consideration only the age group between 18 and 29 years. These figures (covering the year 2005) were obtained based on a telephone survey of 253 men and 247 women. They are a significant increase compared to 2003 (16%) and are still rising when it was learned that some of those interviewed expressed their intention of getting a tattoo or piercing. Despite all the security concerns of such practices, some experts are quick to say that insofar as one quarter of the population is tattooed, the tattoo is revealed relatively safe after all ... But these statements should not prevent the control of basic hygiene standards in their implementation, as well as regulating the composition of the inks used.

EB-M


Spam convicted in France


The French Court of Cassation had to decide on the Net this cancer that is spam. And she felt that the collection of e-mails via a software robot was unfair and constituted a criminal offense.


crimes still rising in USA


Crime, frieze that already tops the U.S., are still up this year, reaching the highest figures of the past fifteen years, notes the Washington Post .
This increase is largely due to an upsurge in killings in a series of towns in the Midwest. The only area where there is a decrease in crime is rape.




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The Flemish parties desperately looking for candidates
Military spending in the world: 1,118 billion in 2005
France: 15,000 posts officials will be abolished in 2007
The mad, God and Death of the Lion
Gyorgy Ligeti



The Flemish parties desperately looking for candidates


parties are desperate to fill their quotas for women on electoral lists , reports De Morgen . All lists should include as many women as men, because of the new writ Flemish.
Not a picnic in the countryside, the daily noted Antwerp.



France: 15,000 civil service posts will be removed in 2007


Dominique de Villepin calls an unprecedented reduction in the number of state officials, reports the French business newspaper Les Echos which further explains that starting five will not be replaced. The National Education will be hardest hit, with 8,700 fewer jobs.




Military spending in the world: 1,118 billion in 2005


World military spending reached a record level in 2005 to 1.118 billion dollars, half of whom returned to the United States, according Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Peace in Stockholm (SIPRI) on Monday.



The mad, God and the lion is


World which relates the anecdote. A man entered the last week in the cage of lions at the zoo in Kiev, shouting: "God save me , if God exists! "The time to cry, he was killed by a lioness flung herself on him.



Gyorgy Ligeti dies


The Hungarian-born composer Gyorgy Ligeti, a monument of contemporary music, died at age 83. He has had his moment of glory, apart from circle of insiders, when Stanley Kubrick used his Requiem, alongside excerpts from Richard and Johann Strauss in particular, for the soundtrack of one of her most masterful, 2001, A Space Odyssey .

Holidays Greetings Messages

doctor's letter No. 361

The daily figure: more than 2% of all African Americans are HIV positive.

June 14 of that year

1775: Foundation of the U.S. Army.
1868: Birth of Karl Landsteiner, the Viennese pathologist who discovered the blood group antigens.
1905: Battleship Potemkin uprising.
1928: Birth Che Guevara, Cuban revolutionary and physician.
1940: German troops enter Paris.
1942: Anne Frank began writing her diary.
1982: Ceasefire in the Falklands War.

Website of the Day: International Society for Microbial Ecology

Quote of the Day: " must be wise to learn from his mistakes, but wiser still to learn from other ." Zen proverb


Titles publishing

Dutch GPs would like more advice on lifestyle
The uniform standard of V02 peak as a criterion for timing of cardiac transplantation questioned
A garden-sentinel allergic
Europe allows fluoxetine in children aged 8
Hb, chronic renal insufficiency and risk of death in renal cardiac
clothing repellents?
nurses and doctor hostage Gadhafi: Enough
cardiopulmonary resuscitation: the man beats the machine (JAMA)
the discontinuation rate after stenting is very risky
Information to Monitor Released





Dutch GPs would more advice on lifestyle

Dutch GPs feel they should spend more time on administration advice about the lifestyle of their patients. This is the main conclusion of an investigation into the practice of prevention in general, relates MedNet.nl .



The uniform criterion of peak V02 as a criterion for timing of cardiac transplantation questioned

The woman is not a man like any other. It has long been known in medicine that the differences between one and the other does limited either to the genital area, or to secondary sexual characteristics, but are ubiquitous. Thus a study Elmariah et al, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology ( 2006; 47: 2237) conducted on nearly 600 patient (s) with heart failure shows that the data on oxygen consumption during an exercise test must be interpreted differently for the two sexes. The uniform criterion of peak VO2 to determine the timing of the transplant should be reviewed, at a time when a quarter of the transplanted heart in the U.S. are women.


A garden-sentinel allergic

is the French daily Liberation describing the square of grass in Nantes, which serves as a sentinel to see the upcoming allergy season.
"Created three years ago in the Jardin des Plantes of Nantes, this square weed has something to sneeze victims of hay fever. City gardeners have orders not to water those plants that are the official witnesses of early flowering. Let the 19 most common species in the area - grass (quackgrass, foxtail, orchardgrass, etc..) and eight species of tree - grows as in nature. Upon flowering, the dust collected on a glass slide black will anticipate the peak allergic to come, "said Libe .



Europe allows fluoxetine in children aged 8

Two years after the FDA, EMEA (European Medicines Agency) has approved the use of Prozac for children over 8 years second line after failure of a few sessions of psychotherapy (4-6), which should remain the first choice of treatment. The higher profits were retained risks, and new records therefore contain an indication for patients over 8 years. The EMEA has asked the strict conditions of use: fluoxetine only be prescribed after the failure of psychotherapy and treatment will not be prosecuted in the absence of improvement after nine weeks of treatment. The EMEA also asked Eli Lilly to conduct further studies on the use of the drug in children.

EB-M



Hb, chronic renal insufficiency and risk of death in heart failure

Very high levels (17g/dL) or reduced (< 13g/dL) d’hémoglobine et une atteinte rénale chronique permettent de prédire indépendamment des risques substantiellement augmentés de décès et d’hospitalisation chez les patients souffrant d’insuffisance cardiaque, quel que soit l’état de la fonction systolique, concluent Go et al, auteurs d’une étude publiée dans Traffic ( 2006; 113: 2713).



clothing repellents?


Ah, summer, vacation, sun, great air ... and mosquitoes. A solution may be available soon: the insect repellent coat. Originally the idea had germinated in the minds of researchers in order to protect American soldiers from the perils of malaria, leishmaniasis and other diseases transmitted by insects by pretreating their uniforms to permethrin. But why not use the idea for civilians? The toxicity of permethrin is relatively low, the diffusion limited dermal and risk of allergy rare. The Environmental Protection Agency has approved its use in agriculture. But caution is still required because the data on the use of clothing impregnated with that substance is lacking.

EB-M



nurses and doctor hostage Gadhafi: Enough!


Together against the Death Penalty, Lawyers Without Borders France and the Moroccan Observatory of Prisons launch an urgent appeal for the release of Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor imprisoned in Libya, reports Egora.fr . We have repeatedly reported on this unbelievable case in which five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were arrested and accused of infecting hundreds of AIDS to children in pediatric hospital in Benghazi in Libya. We know that their death sentence has recently been broken, not for the benefit of a release, but to renew the travesty of justice gone. Some 30,000 people have already signed the petition requesting their release.



cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Man beats machine (JAMA)


standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation gives better results than automated chest compression, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine specializing in Emergency Medicine and published in JAMA of date ( 2006; 295: 2620 ). This result was clear to the point that the study was stopped prematurely. The study authors themselves describe these surprising results, the first tests of this new automated system has shown results considered very promising.


Stop treatment prematurely after stenting for myocardial infarction is very risky


Stop the medication too soon after insertion of drug-eluting stent (DES, Drug eluting stent) is extremely risky. A study by Spertus et al, published online by Circulation near a patient suffers a heart attack seven who were asked in a drug-eluting stent was no longer taking thienopyridines by 30 days after. However, this cessation of treatment is strongly linked to an increased subsequent mortality. "Strategies to improve the use of thienopyridines are therefore required to improve outcomes for patients suffering a myocardial infarction and treated by placement of a DES, thus stress the authors.




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Registry heart / liver Montreal
Ralph Lauren turns the fur from its collections
Broadband too expensive in Belgium
Computers: 10 of these emerging years


Registry heart / liver Montreal


The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) announced few days ago a first for Quebec, namely a combined transplantation (and successful) heart / liver. The recipient was 54 years and the team included 15 persons occurred.



Ralph Lauren turns the fur from its collections


Activists of the animal cause celebrate one more victory. Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. has announced its decision to remove the fur from its collections, reports FindLaw. It must be said that many fashion shows were disrupted by activists from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), which extremist group was negotiating for three months with Ralph Lauren.




Broadband too expensive in Belgium


Belgians pay at least 5 euros per month more than their neighbors for access to broadband Internet. In twelve European countries at least, note Data News , users pay much less than ours. This is shown by a recent survey by Telecompaper. We pay on average 35.33 euros per month for 2 to 4 Mbps, while in the Netherlands, there is an average of 26.69 euros. But at the other end of the spectrum, the user pays Greek 137 euros per month for access to this type.




Computers: the 10 emerging countries in coming years


Le Journal du Net list of the ten emerging markets that will count in the coming years in the field of computing. These
India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and United Arab Emirates, Asia, Poland, Russia and Turkey to Europe, Argentina and Brazil for America.





Published in the Monitor (June 12, 2006)

• Act to consent to the Protocol to the Convention on the Transboundary Air Pollution, Long Distance, 1979 on persistent organic pollutants, and Annexes, done at Aarhus, 24 June 1998 ( p. 30013)
• Royal Decree granting an allowance to officers of the mission as an interpreter at the National Institute of sickness and disability insurance (p. 30068)
• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 3 April 2003 appointment of the president, vice-president and members of the multipart structure on hospital policy (p. 30096)
• Royal Decree appointing directors to the Board of Trustees of urgent medical aid (p. 30097)
• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 9 December 2004 appointing the members of the Belgian Transplantation (p. 30098)

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THE LETTER THE DOCTOR No. 360

The daily figure: In South Africa the prevalence of HIV infection among adults is 23.3%, against only 0.03% among regular blood donor (WHO).

June 13 of that year

1773: birth of Thomas Young, physician, physicist English Egyptologist and a pioneer of physiology ophtalomogique.
1797: Death of Simon Tissot, a Swiss doctor, a great destroyer of masturbation.
1870: birth of Jules Bordet, bacteriologist Belgian Nobel Prize in medicine in 1919.
1900: beginning of the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1986: death of clarinetist Benny Goodman.
1991: Yeltsin wins first Russian elections.

Website of the Day: To laugh a little, the defense of the geostationary earth as an object, with The Earth Is Not Moving

Quote of the Day: " If I have a thousand ideas, only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied . Alfred Nobel

Erratum: Our readers are certainly very attentive. " In the newsletter today (No. 359 of 12 June), a small error or typo, it is according to Jean-Baptiste Denis was physician to King Louis XIV and Louis XVI not," writes the Dr. Philip Bouvry. A thousand apologies for this lapse in our pen.

Titles publishing

Netherlands: cardiovascular risk falling

To attract young people into science, you'd better start early
An outbreak of measles who blew a slight panic in Boston
When an American doctor to openly revolt against managed care
Music not only soothes the savage breast, but it also relieves pain
Dance also soothes the soul: dance therapy
closure of more than 200 abortion clinics in a Chinese province
stay in rest homes, better insurance against fractures?
Orthopaedic opt for a national registry of hip and knee
Communiqué Absym " treatment of breast cancer, the blackmail of Demotte "

Euthanasia: a physician and a nurse returned Assizes in France



Netherlands: cardiovascular risk falling

During the past decade, the risk of cardiovascular mortality has declined in our country. In the Netherlands, in particular there was the sharpest drop among men aged 30 to 60 years. Given the aging population, note HuisartsVandaag.nl , the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease has almost halved since 1970. This evolution is mainly due to changes in lifestyle (less smoking, more attention to food) and progress in preventive and curative care.



To attract young people into science, you'd better start early

Tai et al (University of Virginia), authors of a study published in Science (2006; 312: 1143), conclude that young people in early middle school who demonstrate a desire to become scientists are more likely to actually embrace the latest scientific careers than those who do not agree at the same age. So we must start early to try to attract young people to science, emphasize therefore logically the authors.


An epidemic of measles which blew a slight panic in Boston

A financial framework for a computer company had contracted the virus during a business trip to India and brought him back to Boston, where a small epidemic (the first in the state since 1999) erupted in the wake of this import. The state of Massachusetts was quick to distribute or to order 23,000 doses of measles vaccine at a price of approximately $ 400,000, says the Boston Globe. In addition to the hundreds of people working in the three places it occurs the person has been on preventive leave. Health experts have plunged into their files and interviewed many people in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus.



When an American doctor to openly revolt against managed care

When Tufts Health Plan, a management company of managed care in its region, dismissed the management of his patient's sleeping pill daily, limiting reimbursement to 10 capsules per month, Dr. Stephen Hoffmann, her doctor, not only wrote the order on behalf of her husband, but decided to put the matter on the public square, reports the Boston Globe . Despite the risks he faces disciplinary and legal now, he considers it his duty to report that the welfare of his patient is more important to him that the restrictions imposed by insurers. Caplaz Arthur, one of the best known medical ethicists in the U.S., calls this act of guerrilla tactics and stressed that in defending his patients, sometimes you do something very strong. " Who would not want this as a medical practitioner? , "he adds.



Music not only soothes manners, but it also relieves pain

A study by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and published in the journal Journal of Advanced Nursing shows that music has a soothing effect on chronic pain. It distracts the mind from pain and improves mood. The study was conducted on 60 volunteer participants with a mean age of 50 years and suffering from chronic pain related to musculoskeletal disorders. One group listened for six months of the music chosen by the taste of each participant for an hour a day. The majority chose the melodic music. The group whose music was regularly inserted in his daily life has benefitted not only mood but also in terms of reduced pain perception, with an improvement in their quality of life. To provide our patients with chronic pain, why not?

EB-M



The dance also soothes the soul: dance therapy


As we remember above, the calming effect of music is known for a long time. A research project of the Swedish University of Karlstad and the University College of Dance in Stockholm suggests that hyperactive boys with antisocial behavior and ADHD are noticeably calmer and played better with their peers when they attend a dance therapy. Girls with depression and self-destructive tendencies will also experience a beneficial effect with this approach.



closure of more than 200 abortion clinics in a Chinese province


According to the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, authorities in Hebei province, China closed 201 clinics that performed abortions selective fetal sex feminine. Abortion is illegal in China beyond 14 weeks of pregnancy, but its practice is very wide because of the limitation advocated and imposed a one child per family, which leads to an obvious imbalance between boys and girls.



stay in rest homes, better insurance against fractures?


Women residing in nursing homes are less likely to suffer bone fractures and have a higher average age when a fracture occurs, concludes a Swiss study conducted by Chevalley et al (University Hospital of Geneva) and presented to World Congress on Osteoporosis in Toronto. To The authors, two factors could explain this finding: the greater degree of prescription of calcium and vitamin, and to a lesser extent, drugs against osteoporosis, and better preventive approach vis-à-vis factors risk of falls.


Orthopaedic opt for a national registry for hip and knee


Will we soon in our country as a national registry for hip and knee? If it depends on the scientific societies of Orthopaedic Surgeons Belgian SORBCOT (French) and BVOT (Dutch), such a registry will become very reality quickly. When Congress Orthopaedica Belgica 2006, which took place in Ghent on 8 and 9 June, the two companies have spoken out unambiguously for a register in which all the poses of hip and knee were recorded.
Dr. Jan Victor (AZ Sint-Lucas, Bruges) explained in his statement the very real need for such a register.
Advances in surgery and the aging population have led to a significant increase in exposures of prostheses. In Belgium, around 16,700 new hip implants that were placed in 2004 (+43% since 1995), which must be add review 2200 operations (+62%). The growth is even more impressive for knee prostheses: 13,250 primary interventions in 2004 (+129% since 1995) and 900 revision operations (+200%) (figures Absym). To date, these interventions were not systematically recorded, which led to problems both clinical and scientific practices. Without a registry, we can not assess the value scale of a new procedure or a new type of prosthesis. But for the surgeon and the individual patient as this situation is problematic, for example during an intervention revision where we do not have information on primary intervention and the type of equipment used.
A national registry is also an ideal tool for quality control: any surgeon can deduce how its success rate is compared to national averages. A recent survey
BVOT was organized from among its members shows that 81% of surgeons Flemish supported the idea of a register, as recalled by Dr. Jacques Van Dooren (Heupgroep BVOT). Informal contacts with members led by Professor Philippe Gillet (SORBCOT and CHU Liège) to conclude that there is also the side French overwhelmingly in favor of the project.
The major obstacle to the creation of a registry is financial. Jan Victor states that about one million euros per year to maintain the infrastructure and personnel required. Ontact with the extensive Inami, however, are ongoing and it would be prepared to provide the necessary infrastructure. Mutuals are also broadly supportive of the project. Everything seems to indicate that the project will become reality in the medium term.
(read more detailed article in an upcoming edition of Medi-Sphere)
Jan Bosman


Communiqué Absym: "Treatment of breast cancer, the blackmail of Demotte "


" The Insurance Committee of the NIHDI looked up today on the draft agreement between the NIHDI and some specialized centers for treatment breast cancer. The treatment of this tumor with Herceptin will be reimbursed by INAMI only for patients cared for in centers that have signed this Convention. Not for patients in other centers.
Minister Demotte published in the Moniteur Belge, 9 June 2006 a Royal Decree on Herceptin.
The most important criterion for recognition as a 'center specialty is 'do at least 100 surgeries a year after an initial diagnosis of breast cancer'.
The 10 representatives attending physicians and hospitals have strongly protested against this purely quantitative criterion, and have not ratified the draft convention. They require the consideration of qualitative criteria, such as eg the recognition programs of care "oncology Type B".

Minister Demotte blackmails caregivers.

The royal decree concerning the reimbursement of Herceptin has been published in spite of the unanimous opinion of the Committee insurance. In reality, the Minister Demotte organizes the rationing of care for treating breast cancer, and wants to shift the blame on the providers.
To vote again this project at the next meeting of the Insurance Committee, a simple majority is required. Today, members of the Insurance Committee were not in sufficient numbers to achieve the required two-thirds majority. The
ABSyM is deeply concerned by the rationing of care that the Minister Demotte induces very clearly on this issue.
Dr. Marc Moens, chairman "



Euthanasia: a doctor and a nurse returned to the foundation in France


The investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal of Bordeaux has confirmed this morning the case before the Court of Assizes of the Dordogne and a doctor a nurse involved in a case of euthanasia in 2003.




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Cameroon
The patient's hospital
The blogosphere gets into the U.S. political system
The problem of 'self-referral' in the United States denounced
Campaign for organ donation

Cameroon
The patient's hospital


Under this title the Cameroonian newspaper Mutations addresses recent problems in Yaounde, stating that "in the space of three days the public hospitals in the city Yaounde made about them. And not at all well. "
The minutes of daily boggles the mind:" It first general hospital which had hit the headlines on the night of May 28: A power outage can to discover that this hotel advertised as "referral hospital" at its inception, simply works without a functional generator, because whoever is there crashed since we-don't-know-when and only serves as a backdrop. Consequently, a patient detained in that hospital died that night and members of his family came to sequester facility staff. "Suit, a strike by staff at public hospitals in Yaounde.




The blogosphere gets into the U.S. political system


For some, creating a blog is fun, but it is less and less so for others. And, as outlined in the Washington Post, the recent convention of the 'bloggers', held in Las Vegas this weekend, has attracted the keenest attention of Democrats. One of the darlings of the blogosphere and major player in Vegas, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of Daily Kos and described by the Post, as one of the most influential progressive bloggers in the USA is more courted particularly by opponents of Bush.



The problem of 'self-referral' in the United States denounced


The American Hospital Association request to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to be more severe vis-à-vis this particular form of dichotomy that is the 'self-referral'. A growing number of health care institutions, providing limited services, being owned by doctors, they send their patients to these hospitals in which they hold financial interests.



campaign for organ donation


The federal Department of Health today starts the second phase of a campaign to promote organ donation, including De Standaard reported. Officials of the campaign welcome the current developments, which saw the number of positive statements to increase by 50%, from 33,850 to 51,235, while the opposition has been explicit that a 1% increase from 190,578 to 192,948.


Released in Monitor (June 12, 2006)

• General Management Committee for the social status of self-employed. Appointment, (p. 29962)
• Fire and Emergency Medical Assistance for the Brussels-Capital. Appointment (p. 29967)

Stomach Flu And Late Period

doctor's letter No. 359

The figure of the day: over 60,000 members NHS staff were physically assaulted by patients or their relatives in 2005.

On 12 June this year

1667: Jean-Baptiste Denis Louis XIV surgeon performs the first transfusion of blood from a lamb to a dying man.
1888 when the first resection of a spinal tumor.
1964: Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa.
1975: Indira Gandhi convicted of corruption.

Website of the Day: Zooland : The Artificial Life Resource

Quote of the Day: " Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment that one feels in seeing him fall a ball of ice cream cone of its . "Jim Fiebig


Titles publishing


The HVS and Domino sign alliance for the elections
creeping privatization of the NHS continues at an accelerated pace
Monkeys vaccinated against SIV (similar to HIV) survive longer after infection
The cost of healthcare increases dramatically due to drugs in France
Railing Diabetes
Coffee for the prevention of alcoholic cirrhosis?
coronary Achievement: Rp / Transcendental Meditation?
The new food trends: a fad?
violence suffered and later diagnosis of gynecologic cancer
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The HVS and Domino sign an alliance for the elections

Herman Moeremans for the HVS, and Peter De Bruyn for Domino, have signed an agreement to forge an alliance for the elections of 2006 medical.
This agreement aims to primary, says a press release of the HVS to obtain for associations of general recognition that the MG been waiting for years. His second goal is to get the revaluation of the intellectual act. The concrete points of action will be specified based on the programs of both unions.


Creeping NHS Privatisation continues at an accelerated pace

A Primary Care Trust (local management unit for NHS general practice) in three goes to enter into an agreement with a private company to manage health services General's jurisdiction. This is shown in a survey by Pulse magazine. And this while the government had opened the possibility of alliance to better serve the regions relatively démédicalisées. The MG
gather elsewhere to form all companies to counter the influence of large private general practice. Thus, 70 GPs, 19 firms from Leeds, they have made in this regard to resist LeeDrs giants like United Healthcare Europe.


Monkeys vaccinated against SIV (similar to HIV) survive longer after infection

Two new studies sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one component National Institutes of Health (NIH), suggest that even if a vaccine against HIV offers an imperfect protection against the dreaded virus, it could provide an important advantage after infection in terms of survival. This is evident from studies of monkeys vaccinated against SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus), a virus very similar to HIV.



The cost of healthcare increases dramatically due to drugs in France

health expenditures due to drug have increased in France by 4.44 for tobacco, alcohol and 2.19 for 3 , 11 for illegal drugs, according to a report of the Observatory Drugs and Drug Addiction, echoed by Le Monde .



Haro Diabetes

The campaign "Unite for Diabetes" was inaugurated Saturday by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF-IDF) in Washington. This campaign highlights the alarming rise of diabetes worldwide, and encourages governments to support a UN resolution on diabetes. IDF leads the so global diabetes community in a concerted effort for a resolution to be voted on or around World Diabetes Day (November 14) 2007. The
latest data from the International Diabetes Federation attest that today more than 230 million people, or nearly 6% of the world's adult population live with diabetes. Previous figures underestimated the diabetes threat, and it is expected that the total number is still increasing.



Coffee for the prevention of alcoholic cirrhosis?


ingestion of coffee could reduce the risk of developing alcoholic cirrhosis, according to results of a study by Klatsky et al, based on data from over 125,000 topics and published in Archives of Internal Medicine (Arch Intern Med 2006; 166: 1190)



coronary Achievement: Rp / Transcendental Meditation?


Transcendental meditation may lower blood pressure and reduce insulin resistance in patients with coronary conclude Paul-Labrador et al, authors of a study funded in particular by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NIH ) and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (Arch Inter Med 2006; 166: 1218). According to the authors, the technique would act particularly in modulating stress responses.



The new food trends: a fad?


Under this title the Insurance Funds publish a brochure available free from certain local offices of Insurance Funds or from the Health Promotion Service of the National Union of Independent Health Insurance Funds.
The text of the entire press release on the site Free Mutual MediPlanet.


violence suffered and later diagnosis of gynecologic cancer


Women with gynecological cancer and who have been of physical or sexual abuse (also very common in this group) have their diagnosis at a later stage of their disease than women who did not suffer such violence find Modesitt et al (University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center , Lexington) authors of a study of 101 women with gynecologic cancers and published in Obstetrics & Gynecology ( Obstet Gynecol 2006; 107: 1330).





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Sunscreens: beware of the thyroid?
bodies shrink gazelles
spammers harshly sentenced in the United States
Amnesty declares war on censorship on the Net


Sunscreens: beware of the thyroid?

It could be that sunscreens disrupt hormone balance throïdiennes. This is suggested by the work of German researchers conducted on rats, where a sunscreen chimiquye increased TSH levels. Further work is needed to verify whether this effect is also found in humans.


bodies shrink gazelles

How do gazelles and other large mammals living in desert regions where they arrange the food supply and water shortage? A study of Ostrowski et al, published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, gazelles are able to enter the oxygen-consuming organs such as liver and heart, allowing them to breathe less. So there is less evaporation of water through respiration during the dry period.


spammers harshly sentenced in the United States

A federal court in Texas has sentenced last week to a fine and court costs of $ 10 million three spammers, reports Le Monde. They are suspected of having been a member of the Top 5 biggest spammers in the world.


Amnesty declares war on censorship on the Net is

Le Soir online, echoing the work of Amnesty International on this point, we learn: AI launched a campaign under the name of irrepressible. be
against repression that affects users in a number of countries. The Internet represents a new challenge for AI in the fight for freedom of conscience.
"P eter Benenson launched Amnesty after reading a newspaper that two Portuguese students were jailed for a toast to liberty in a cafe, 45 years later, we learn that three young Vietnamese have been arrested for participating in an Cat on democracy. Governments have also always afraid of dissenting opinions, and try to silence , "Le Soir wrote online about it. And AI to call to sign the petition for freedom of expression on the Net.



Released in Monitor (June 9, 2006).

• Royal Decree establishing the conditions under which the Insurance Committee may enter into agreements pursuant to Article 56, para. 2, section 1, 2, of the law on insurance and health care benefits, coordinated July 14, 1994, for the adjuvant treatment of experimental breast cancer using the proprietary Herceptin (p. 29733)
• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 3 April 2003 appointing members of the National Council of hospitals (p. 29797)
• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 3 April 2003 appointing members of the Council National hospital (p. 29798)
• Ministerial Decree amending the ministerial order of May 3, 2004 appointing the members of the evaluation referred to in Article 6 of the Royal Decree of 30 November 2003 fixing the conditions of granting subsidies to scientific research on food security, health policy and animal welfare (p. 29799)
• Royal Decree giving resignation to the President of the Board of Psychologists (p. 29800)

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The daily figure : Nine million general anesthetics are used each year in France.

On 9 June of that year

1672: birth of the future Czar Peter the Great.
1783: Birth of Benjamin Brodie, English surgeon, a pioneer in vascular surgery, authored the first intervention for varicose veins.
1815: end of the Congress of Vienna in which the victorious European powers of Napoleon, reshaping the map of Europe.
1836: Birth of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first woman doctor in Britain and first woman mayor of his town in Suffolk.
1870: Death of Charles Dickens.
1891: birth of Cole Porter, author of very many songs.
1934: Donald Duck first appeared in the United States in a Walt Disney cartoon, titled The Wise Little Hen.
1983: Margaret Thatcher won for the second time the elections in the United Kingdom.


Website of the Day: Classics in the History of Psychology


Quote of the Day: " Man is not an animal, the flesh is intelligent, even if sometimes ill . "Fernando Pessoa


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Another half-year of life expectancy gained between 2003 and 2004
Doctor Internet will never replace the doctor
Tax on tickets in 14 countries to fight against AIDS, malaria and TB
The debate on the legalization of euthanasia in the United Kingdom comes alive
Three days antibiotic for pneumonia in general practice? (BMJ)
In a game of football with new shoes in toxic shock (BMJ)
but often little ladies and gentlemen infrequent ...
Full moon nights?
Eating healthy is good, ethical eating
Better Information to see the site MediPlanet
READ IN GUNAIKEIA Vol. 10 No. 10 - What women présentant une incontinence urinaire d’effort tireront profit d’un entraînement de la musculature du plancher pelvien?
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Another half-year of life expectancy gained between 2003 and 2004

The latest data service Demographics Federal Public Service Economy show that life expectancy in our country still has significant increased between 2003 and 2004, from 78.82 to 79.47 years. In ten years there has even increased by more than two full years in this regard (from 77.35 years in 1995 to 79.47 years in 2004). That of males increased from 75.85 to 76.47 years and women increased from 81.69 to 82.36 years.
Again Belgium is a two tier is to be seen as the life expectancy of citizens Flemish (80.27 years) is greater than two years of the Walloon average (78.04 years), ranging Brussels closer to the figures of the north, with 79.37 years.
There are incidentally a progressive decrease in the gap between men and women (from 6.82 years in 1995 to 5.89 years in 2004).


Doctor Internet will never replace the doctor

In our time, patients are deemed to be most critical and information seekers. But research published on Health Expectations dismantle this belief more widespread in the medical world (Pharm MK et al. Health Expectations 2006; 9: 174-87 .) Patients certainly have thirst for information and written sources, but they are unable to get them alone, and the proliferation of information sources (print and Internet) is not enough to make patients independent in managing their disease or their treatment. Only a small proportion of patients from an intellectual level and sociocultural level is able to understand medical prescriptions and exercise of critical thinking in relation to information from a source other than their doctor contractor.
The majority of patients still depends on the medical information provided by physicians. Internet or the media can never replace the doctor-patient relationship, which remains essential to help the patient understand correctly its pathology and management thereof. Doctor patient communication should always be regarded as a fundamental priority and essential.

EB-M


tax on airline tickets in 14 countries in the fight against AIDS, malaria and TB

President Chirac has managed to rally in thirteen countries in more than France to project close to his heart since the beginning of its last electoral mandate in 2002 to tax airline tickets to finance the purchase of drugs against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, reports Le Figaro . The thirteen other countries are Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Norway and the United Kingdom. This initiative falls within the broader framework of UNITAID, an initiative to buy low cost drugs against these diseases, which was launched earlier this month at the UN conference AIDS. In total, 43 countries participate in UNITAID.


The debate on the legalization of euthanasia in the United Kingdom comes alive

A former professor of ethics British calls for the legalization of euthanasia, at least passively, even unintentionally. Len Doyal, a member of the ethics committee of the British Medical Association, one must indeed be able to legalize a practice widely applied in the field, including for patients incapable of giving consent. As for the British Medical Association, she has recently abandoned its ancient opposition to any form of legalization euthanasia, to take a qualified neutral in this debate.


Three days of antibiotics for pneumonia in general practice? (BMJ)

administration of antibiotics for 3 days is equally effective for treating community-acquired pneumonia than traditional treatments 7 to 10 days and could help reduce antimicrobial resistance, el Moussaoui et al conclude, authors a Dutch study of 119 patients using amoxycillin and published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ 2006; 332: 1355 ).



In a game of football with new shoes in toxic shock (BMJ)

This is particularly strange that both cases show Taylor et al
authors published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ 2006; 332: 1376). These two cases of toxic shock syndrome in young people who played football with brand new shoes and having thus developed the "blistering". These blisters contained Staphylococcus aureus, hence the above complication.


ladies but little often infrequent Gentlemen ...

The BMJ (2006; doing: 10.1136/bmj.38831.503113.7c) published a Danish study that, to derive cardiovascular benefit from the consumption of wine, men and women have different behaviors on their way drink. Women should drink little and often, while men could drink a greater quantity but markedly less frequent. According to researchers, the cardiovascular risk in humans would be proportional to the frequency of consumption, while among women it is the amount of alcohol increases the risk. It may be objected this study, which was based on a diary kept by consumer participants, this methodological bias. But it confirms if need be that women are not like other men.

EB-M


Full moon nights?

A survey published in the Journal of Sleep Research conducted by researchers at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Bern (Switzerland) seems to show that sleep is less restful nights during the full moon. The full moon would not sleep because of tiredness and fatigue with recovery awakening. In addition, during the full moon nights, sleep duration is shortened, whereas in new moon phase we would sleep longer. But the authors are careful to state in their conclusions that these findings require additional studies to be validated.

EB-M



Eating healthy is good, ethical eating is better

Eating healthy is good. But you can eat healthier than eating healthy ethics. That's what looked a consumer group, representatives of science and representatives of national institutions and community after a meeting held by the EU in Brussels at the initiative of Coldiretti entitled "Food future of the European Union: safety and market." Guaranteeing food safety, transparency of information on their quality and background checks but also on socio-environmental standards to avoid putting on sale of products obtained by degrading the surrounding or exploiting people: these are the priorities that should meet the European Union. One thinks of the flowers grown in Kenya, using unauthorized pesticides and depriving local populations of water. It evokes tomatoes according to a Chinese accusation by the group Human Rights in China are grown by inmates sentenced to hard labor.
( source).
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The FDA approved the HPV vaccine
Beer hormones for menopause?
Tens of thousands of married girls in India


The FDA approved the HPV vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved américine Gardasil ®, the recombinant vaccine HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18 produced by Merck (and marketed in Europe by Sanofi-Pasteur) and for the prevention of cervical cancer in girls and women 9 to 26 years (see also the MDL No. 357, June 8, 2006). " is an important day for public health and the health of women and our ongoing fight against diseases that threaten life as cervical cancer," commented in this regard the Deputy Minister of the USA Public Health.



Beer hormones for menopause?

A non-alcoholic beer enriched with phytoestrogens: a veiled new source of hormone replacement for menopausal women, the result of collaboration between the Research Institute for Brewing and Maltin and a producer of Czech beer industry. The Czech Republic is the largest consumer of beer in the world and women are yet to conquer a market for the consumption of beer ...

EB-M


Tens of thousands of married girls in India

Tens of thousands of girls are married each year in India and believed to give birth as soon as they reach puberty, reports the BBC . According to the 2001 census, 300,000 girls under fifteen years gave birth in India, some for the second time. And this year, says the BBC, the number could have reached half a million. Although child marriages are illegal in the country since the Child Marriage Restraint Act in 1929 imposed by the colonial British, we sometimes see unions involving girls ... 6 years.





READ IN GUNAIKEIA Vol. 10 N ° 10 - Which women with stress urinary incontinence will benefit from a workout of the pelvic floor?

Hendrik Cammu Michelle Van Nylen, Christophe Blockeel, Leon Kaufman, Jean-Jacques Amy
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, AZ VUB, Brussels


Urinary incontinence is a very common problem, encountered in at least 14% of women over 30 years (1). The International Continence Society defines urinary incontinence as the involuntary discharge of urine through the urethra simultaneously to an increase in intra-abdominal pressure (2). Urinary incontinence often has a negative impact on the daily lives of women (3) and it rarely improves spontaneously (4). The SUI is conventionally treated in two ways: firstly, there are many surgical correction of the closure mechanism of the urethra and on the other hand, it yal'entraînement pelvic floor muscle. These exercises have an effect on incontinence because they support the urethra and bladder neck indirectly because of their entanglement with the endopelvic fascia (5).

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to Monitor Released (June 8, 2006)

• Royal Decree determining the financial contribution of the Belgian federal authority activities Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters for the year 2006 (p. 29432)
• Flemish Government Decree amending the Flemish Government Decree of 5 October 2001 in implementation of Article 33b of the Decree of 23 January 1991 on the protection of the environment against pollution from fertilizers and amending the Decree of the Flemish Government of 6 February 1991 fixing settlement the Flemish Environmental Licences (p. 29437)
• National Health Insurance Disability. Higher Commission Medical Council of disability, established with the Benefits department. Resignations and appointments (p. 29445)
• National Health Insurance Disability. Staff. Honorable resignation (p. 29446).
• National Health Insurance Disability. Evaluation committee of medical practices in medicine, established with the Department of Health. Resignation and appointment of a member (p. 29446)
• National Institute of sickness and disability. Registration Board of Opticians, established with the Department of Health. Reappointments. Resignation and appointment of members (p. 29446) • Office
control of mutual societies and national unions of mutual societies. Staff. Voluntary resignation of a financial inspector (p. 29447)