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doctor's letter No. 352

The daily figure: more than 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain and nearly 25 million have painful episodes at least annually.

May 31 of that year

1819: Birth of William Worrall Mayo, father of the dynasty.
1832: death in a duel at the age of 21 years, the mathematician François Evariste Galois.
1889: Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard reported an additional force after being injected with testicular extract animal.
1957: The playwright Arthur Miller is convicted for refusing to reveal to Congress the names of colleagues suspected communists.

Website of the Day: Geriatric Depression Scale

Quote of the Day: " Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. Andre Maurois ( What I think )


TITLES PUBLISHING

Doctors, pharmacists and industry create a common platform of ethics, Mdeon
Avian flu: no need to panic yet according WHO Pneumococcal Vaccine
further delayed in Great Britain for budgetary reasons
Training via Internet portal for physicians MediPlanet: diabetes and cardiovascular risk. When GERD
kills
Deficiencies in vitamin D in the 3rd round of the age
proteome
Breast Cancer: mega-study for personalized medicine
Male homosexuality in less developed countries: the ink bottle
Consumption generalist care more important in case of limited intellectual
always open to LDCs (te) s
additional information see the website MediPlanet
to Monitor Released (May 30, 2006)


Doctors, pharmacists and industry create a common platform of ethics, Mdeon

health partners in Belgium, ABSyM, Domus Medica, VBS / GBS, the SSMG, the HVS, the PDB, the OPHACO, IPSA, SSPF The UNAMEC, Febelgen pharma.be and created this 23 May 2006 a common ethical platform. Thus, all these players take their responsibilities and implement a proactive self-regulatory device modern, transparent and effective information and promotion of drugs and medical devices. This approach is in direct line to the legislation in force.

(read Full text of press release on our website: click here )



Avian influenza: no need to panic yet, according to WHO

As we noted yesterday, the death of several family members Indonesia could sign the first-pass inter-human virus, but WHO stress that this does not necessarily mean the dreaded mutation thereof. Mutation whose idea raises serious concerns and the prospect of a apolcalyptique bird flu spreading like seasonal flu.
WHO has also launched a thorough investigation to determine the circumstances of infection that has decimated the Indonesian family above.



Pneumococcal Vaccine further delayed in Britain for budgetary reasons

The lives of children will be jeopardized, the BBC notes, because the introduction of pneumococcal vaccine (widely available elsewhere ) will once again be delayed for budgetary reasons. Not difficult, with such blind decisions, to have expenditures that represent a relatively small proportion of GDP. In the short term at least, care is definitely the cheapest ones is not given.



Training via Internet portal for physicians MediPlanet: diabetes and cardiovascular risk .

The 4 modules of the course on diabetes and cardiovascular risk (Editors: Professor John and Dr. Jean Yves Ducobu Hindlet) are accessible via the portal MediPlanet.
- Explosion expected and under diagnosis.
- Support -
glycemic control - Control of cardiovascular risk factors.
- Specific situations, consultation diabetes and messages

The course consists of 2 interviews in video form.
Access to courses is via the portal with your username and www.mediplanet.be DocCheck password by clicking on e-course (left menu or right image).
To learn more about e-courses before going on the website: click here



When GERD kills

While it's far from the carnage, but it still happens that the gastroesophageal reflux disease kills. This means it is not a negligible affection, far from it. A Finnish study, presented at the recent Digestive Disease Week (Los Angeles), covering the period 1987-2000 shows that during this period, mortality from GERD increased by 0.18 from 100,000 to 0.46 / 100.000 , Egora.fr reported.



Deficiencies of vitamin D in the third age

80% of older Londoners have a deficiency in vitamin D. This emerges from a study by Moniz et al unveiled at the 33th European Symposium on Calcified Tissues (Prague, May 2006), tells us The International Journal of Medicine . An important finding in that this deficiency increases the risk of pathological fractures.



In turn proteome

the human genome is deciphered, it is the turn of the proteome to be dissected. Researchers International have begun to map the entire active proteins into cells. Their publication in Cell (Mann et al. 2005; 125:1) shows how highly specialized techniques used to catalog the complete inventory of such proteins. They identified over 1,400 proteins in liver cells of mice.




Breast Cancer: mega-study for personalized medicine

The National Cancer Institute seeks to recruit 10,000 women for a mega-study to evaluate which patients with breast cancer benefit from chemotherapy and which can not do without risking a recurrence, reports the Chicago Tribune. To its proponents, we come together on one level in the era of personalized medicine.




Male homosexuality in less developed countries: the ink bottle

data on the prevalence of sex between men, data clearly important in the epidemiology of STDs, are scarce for countries in low and middle income, see Caceres et al, authors of a study published in Sexually Transmitted Infections (2006; 82 (suppl_3): III3-iii9; doi: 10.1136/sti.2005.019489). Estimated prevalence, during an existence, from 6 to 20% in South Asia and South-east, Eastern Europe and Latin America, with more limited numbers in the eastern asia. Further studies are needed to see more clearly.



Consumption largest generalist care in case of limited intellectual

According MedNet.nl , a survey by the institute Nivel Dutch (Nederlands instituut voor onderzoek van de gezondheidszorg) shows that patients with intellectual limited (a concept that information broadcast does not specify) are on average about 1.5 times more contact with their family doctor than control subjects.



LDCs open to tou (te) s

The Commission for Social Affairs of the Senate vote today a bill that opens the in vitro fertilization tou (te) s, reports De Standaard . Single women and lesbians couples, for example, would no longer be excluded from the scope of the law. The proposal should be a broad majority.
The anonymity of the donor should it remain appropriate.





Additional information see also the site MediPlanet

SSMG Great day on domestic violence Saturday, June 10
Niquitin publishes a guide to non-smoking restaurants during the day anti-tobacco
Police in Los Angeles is a splash in the blogosphere
The "double punishment" of disabled and sick challenged France


SSMG Great day on domestic violence Saturday, June 10

The Saturday, June 10, 2006 will be held from 12am to about 18h, the University Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Espace Senghor (passage of the deportees, 2) the great Gembloux SSMG day devoted to domestic violence. Program on the site of SSMG

Niquitin publishes a guide to non-smoking restaurants during the day anti-tobacco


The World Anti-Tobacco Day was held today, 31 May On this occasion, NiQuitin presents its "Guide to smoke-free restaurants" a guide to restaurants where it is already forbidden to smoke, more than seven months before the entry into force of the ban on smoking in Horeca. So you can fully savor a delicious meal. You can request a free Guide to smoke-free restaurants on www.NiQuitin.be, while stock lasts.


Police in Los Angeles made a splash in the blogosphere

Blog of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is a real tobacco, said The World, with 24,000 visits in one week. This blog is intended to raise awareness of the police action in public opinion.


The "double punishment" of disabled and sick challenged France

" Despite the disability law in February 2005, many sick and disabled continue to face discrimination in insurance that prevents them from contracting loans, "wrote Le Figaro in its edition yesterday. A situation which is nothing specific to France. And that when Jacques Chirac made the integration of the disabled a priority of his five years. Therefore, says the Paris daily, " bankers, insurers and patients' associations were asked to 'negotiate' by the end of June a new agreement to end the discrimination against the loan. A double penalty to which convicts are tens of thousands of French who, in addition to endure a disability or disease, should undergo this outrage that prohibits any proposed life. "



to Monitor Released May 30, 2006

• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 7 May 1991 laying down the personal intervention of beneficiaries in the cost of pharmaceutical supplies reimbursable under the compulsory insurance and health care benefits (p. 27082)
• Royal Decree amending 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 pharmaceutical products in respect of the lump sum intervention assurance in hospitals (p. 27083)
• Decision of the Federal Agency for Security of the Food Chain on Accreditation of analytical laboratories under its control missions (p. 27110)

Curtains For Dark Green Walls

doctor's letter No. 351

The daily figure: In 2005, 136,400 Dutch died of cancer.

On 30 May this year

• 1891: death of Benjamin Fordyce Barker, American obstetrician, first president of the American Gynecological Society and author of Remarks on Puerperal Fever.
• 1903: William Boog Leishman, tropical pathologist UK reported forms intracellular protozoan parasite that causes kala-azar. They are called Leishman-Donovan body
• 1909: Désiré Magloire Bourneville's death, French physician who described a mental illness that bears his name
• 1981: assassination of Zia Rahman, President of Bangladesh
• 1990: France bans the 'importanti beef


English Website of the Day: netdoctor.co.uk


Quote of the Day: " But if we always told the truth in the world ... we spend our lives to tell of abuse ... Eugene Labiche ( The Misanthrope and Auvergne)


to Monitor Released May 29, 2006: read the bottom of this letter

TITLES PUBLISHING

Herceptin and breast cancer centers (press the Absym)
Privatization "creeping" NHS?
intimate partner + gun, a lethal combination for women
A former dean of Harvard wrote a book on his destructive University
Reminder: package for celiac
Internet for all: the flop?
Stock market performance: the company name should be easy to pronounce!
Moonlighting: the Belgium a very bad student
musical and artistic education in French-speaking Belgium: not care


Herceptin and breast cancer centers (press the Absym)

" On March 13, 2006, the Committee of insurance INAMI decided unanimously to make refundable the specialty pharmaceutical for the treatment of breast cancer Herceptin in hospitals that have a cancer care program B.
Minister ignores this absolute and Herceptin only reimburse the centers providing evidence that they diagnose and treat surgically 150 new patients per year.
This morning the Committee on Insurance, ABSyM and other care providers have strongly protested against this unilateral and irresponsible Minister Demotte. Vlaamse Vereniging voor
The Obstetrics in Gynaecologie calculated that only 14% of hospitals meet this standard in Flanders. French representatives in Insurance Committee estimate that only a minority of their institutions meet this standard.
The majority of members present at the Insurance Committee is indignant at the conduct of the Minister. By drastically limiting the accessibility, the Minister excluded from this treatment a large number of women with breast cancer is treatable.
Does this form of care rationing will soon extend also to conventional therapy of breast cancer in the "clinical breast" planned, when the minister would, again, introduce the norm of 150 new surgical cases? The
ABSyM appeals to all those involved in patient care to dispute with the Minister Demotte this state of things. "
Dr. Marc Moens, President ABSyM

Privatization" creeping " NHS?

What some call creeping privatization of large segments of the NHS continues. This time the Blair government has now decided that the primary trusts (local units of the NHS) should not visit patients if they use private firms to take over GPs' offices. The debate on this subject has indeed been triggered by the decision of the North Eastern Derbyshire PCT to ask the American company U.S. managed care firm UnitedHealth manage two firms under its jurisdiction. An affiliate of one of two firms listed had ruled that patients should be consulted on such decisions. She just unsuccessful.

intimate partner + gun, a lethal combination for women

A series of eight studies, published as Intimate Partner Violence Common and Firearms in the journal Evaluation Review, confirm that a woman faces more to die murdered by an intimate partner than from the hands of an unknown assailant. " partners with violent firearms are particularly dangerous in this regard " notes and Susan Sorenson (University of California, Los Angeles), in his article ( Evaluation Review 2006; 30: 229). And clarify if the number of murders of women by foreigners has decreased in the U.S., the homicide by intimate partners made using a firearm has increased. In fact, says Sorenson, a woman is twice as likely to die from a bullet fired by an intimate partner than from any form of assault by a stranger.

A former dean of Harvard wrote a book on his destructive University

A former dean of Harvard recently published a book that creates quite a stir in the landerneau university. For him, the leaders of Harvard manage their institutions' as a day center for college students . It must be said that the very title of the book, Excellence Without a Soul : How a Great University Forgot Education , (Excellence soulless: how a great university forgot education), is already a program in itself. The book is in any case become a bestseller in the library of the university.

Reminder: package for celiac

We have already passed the information a few days ago, but we recall the essential given the importance for affected patients and their physicians. A new Royal Decree establishing the conditions for granting a package for coeliacs was published in the Moniteur Belge on 1 May and came into force on 1 June We recall that celiac patients, adults or children, must, to qualify for this benefit, visit a medical specialist (gastroenterologist, internist or pediatrician) who will establish a record of evidence of celiac disease (results taken blood positive for anti-endomysial or anti-transglutaminase and protocol also a positive biopsy of the duodenum), completing an ad hoc formula he found on the website of the Inami and send all of the medical nseil the Mutual or the patient.
Patients should, in turn, return each month to their mutual (by mail or over the counter) all their proofs of purchase of gluten-free products, that is to say, the products bearing the symbol of wheat crossed, but also all gluten-free cereals and their derivatives.
However, it should be covered for minor risks to benefit from the measure.
For additional info, please contact the International Patient:
Belgian Society of celiac disease, Rue des Waides, 9-4633 Melen
Tel. & Fax: 04/377 37 49, e-mail http://www.sbc-asbl.be
: @ sbc.tromme busmail.net

Internet for all: the flop?

Or so writes Data News, quoting a spokesman for computer dealers. This large government action designed to overcome the digital divide does not just take off. The specialized site even states that when software is sold in this framework it is the wrong target.

initial stock performance: the company name should be easy to pronounce!

The ease of pronunciation of the name of a company influences its market performance in the days following its IPO. This is shown in a study by two psychologists from Princeton University, Alter and Oppenheimer, forthcoming in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .

Moonlighting: Belgium, a very bad student

The Flemish daily Het Belang van Limburg describes some conclusions of a report by McKinsey that the black represents 22% of Belgian GDP. A Belgian betray them at least occasionally. The Belgian Treasury would lose about 30 billion euros of taxes as a result.
Only Greece, Spain Italian and Portugal doing worse in this regard.


musical and artistic education in French-speaking Belgium: not care

As part of a reform of the first stage of secondary education, the French Ministry of Education plans to cut half an hour week course of musical and artistic education. These courses are already limited to the first two years of secondary education, would thus undermined. This project developed in secret enjoys no debate or consultation, is the Defense and Promotion Association Education Plastic, which states that teachers are mobilizing to prevent such a disaster education and culture.
A petition is circulating. To lend your support to this initiative and maintain an artistic awakening in teaching French-speaking Belgian, simply send the following along with your names and addresses at this Internet address of the association Defence and Promotion of Arts Education josianerenson@tele2.be
text of the petition: "I affirm my commitment to artistic education courses held in all schools in the territory of the French Community. I ask competent authorities to ensure the continuity of this teaching so important and yet so little represented in its weekly hours .



Information to also check the site MediPlanet


An American history quite staggering
HIV: wild chimpanzees are involved
Hunger Strike of cancer patients in Israel for a wider range drugs reimbursed
A call to the Red Cross for Java


An American history quite staggering

History is quite amazing indeed: an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs had taken home on a laptop and an external hard drive data of 26.5 million American veterans discharged since 1975 and at "low doses " since 2003. All this is lost after a burglary at the individual and operated during which his computer equipment was taken away.
Authorities offer $ 50,000 for which they will bring the PC and external hard drive. Few things in the light of the enormous loss. Once again stated that the information in question were neither encrypted or scrambled in any way.

HIV: wild chimpanzees are involved

New evidence, collected with the feces of chimpanzees in the Cameroon forest confirm the origin of HIV-1 in populations of wild chimpanzees. It is reported that Keele et al in a publication by Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.1126531)


Hunger Strike of cancer patients in Israel for a wider range of drugs covered

Ehud Olmert, Israeli prime minister has agreed to expand the range of medicines reimbursed medicines, following a hunger strike that patients with colon cancer two weeks ago led to the building of the Knesset (parliament) and they threatened to harden again. The problem is that the (national) Israeli health since 1995 behind a fairly substantial deficit, currently reaching 10 billion shekels (1.74 billion euros).

A call to the Red Cross for Java

Saturday, May 27, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale struck the island of Java in Indonesia, causing over 3,000 deaths and thousands injured. The disaster occurred in an area with high population density near the city of Yogyakarta on the southern coast of Java, today announced the French Red Cross. The earthquake caused enormous damage to buildings in the surrounding area, leaving the roof of hundreds of thousands of children and adults. 200,000 people are homeless. That's why the Red Cross proposes to make an online donation .


to Monitor Released May 29, 2006

• Royal Decree amending the list annexed to the Royal Decree of 12 October 2004 laying down the conditions under which compulsory insurance care health benefits and the cost involved in compounding and related products (p. 26931)
• Royal Decree implementing Article 37, para. 3, the law on compulsory insurance and health care benefits, coordinated July 14, 1994, regarding the determination of the fee allocated to hospitals for reimbursable pharmaceuticals (p. 26932)
• Ministerial Decree appointing Members of the Committee of recognitions of physicians, carriers of specific professional title of specialist in geriatrics (p. 26945) (http://www.staatsbladclip.be/lois/2006/05/29/loi-2006022470.html )
• High Commission of Social Defence under section 13 of the Act of 1 July 1964 social defense against abnormal and habitual offenders. Composition. Change (p. 27003)

Sand Rail Engine For Sale

doctor's letter No. 350

The daily figure: 80 countries still regard homosexuality as a crime, informs The World

29 May this year

* 1653: publication of From Morbis puerorum, Robert Penell
* 1953: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Everest
* 1985: 39 die fans crushed in the Heysel stadium in the final of European Cup


Website of the Day: Information Calories
http://www.calorie-counter.net/

Quote of the Day: " A definition of Tristan Bernard crossword:" Silent Birth: cinema. "


Released in the Moniteur of 24 and 26 May 2006: read the bottom of this letter

titles
Publishing (click the link to go immediately to the relevant article)

- Avian flu: Apocalypse now?
- Feedback on feedback (press the KCE)
- The discontent expressed in the generic The Free
- Co-payments lowered by physio
- IFPMA supports increased transparency for clinical studies
- A French plan for the elderly
- The Federal Centre for Health Care Knowledge sets the foundation for the future of the management of diabetes (press release KCE)
- Options after miscarriage (BMJ)
- call back to a patient who attempted suicide (BMJ)
- Alcohol and cardiovascular disease prevention
- Pearls Monitor



Avian influenza: Apocalypse now?

What we feared for weeks did he just happen in Indonesia?
Seven members of one family, six of whom are already dead, have been hit by the virus without any apparent that both had contact with poultry.
WHO has asked Roche, the producer of Tamiflu, to put on alert to face any eventuality. WHO has already taken the initiative to transfer 9,500 doses of the antiviral Indonesia.


Feedback on feedback (press the KCE)

Belgian doctors regularly receive a statement for several years commented: some of their requirements. This original approach called "feedback" has been initiated by the National Council for the Promotion of Quality (CNPq) of INAMI. These feedbacks are intended to better prescribe certain drugs based on the recommendations of the latest good practice. Antibiotics were chosen as the first topic of feedback because of the extensive use of antibiotics and increasing the number of bacteria that resist them. Other themes followed as antihypertensives and preoperative examinations.
But do you know that a study of the Federal Centre for Expertise Health Care (KCE) interviewed small groups of GPs to find out what they thought the feedback antibiotics?
It appears from these group interviews that although some doctors feel the feedback as a threat to their autonomy, they arouse curiosity and push them to discuss them or even to question in their LOK. This questioning is not progressive fruit right away and win to be within an overall plan. Thus, for the prescription of antibiotics, several actions, including campaigns at the general public were carried out simultaneously.
Physicians Respondents also benefited from interviews to make suggestions, certainly useful to improve the quality of feedback coming.
The details of this research in collaboration with the KCE SSMG (Scientific Society of General Medicine) and WVVH (Wetenschappelijke Vereniging van Vlaamse of Huisartsen), Domus Medica today, is available on the website of KCE at the following URL : http://kce.fgov.be/index_fr.aspx?ID=0&SGREF=3470&CREF=6867

Press Centre of Expertise Federal health care

The generic expression of discontent in La Libre

Joris Van Assche, Secretary General of Febelgen, the Federation of Belgian producers of generic drugs, this morning expressed its strong discontent in the columns of La Libre Belgique compared with recent actions by Minister Demotte. He is not happy with the recent price reduction measures that do not support the generic compared to conventional firms. He also sees no reason why we opted for a kiwi "light" by not including the molecules under patent also specifies La Libre. The modalities of implementation of the new Agency for drugs are also a problem, while generic producers complain, finally, that the tax on pharmaceutical companies will be modulated according to the research investment and employment levels. "The only people who are not exempt, it is the producers of generics," says Joris Van Assche in Brussels daily.
Recall that in the interview he recently gave us, the chief minister's office Demotte had shown little sensitivity to this specific problem, stressing that what matters the government is to have medicinal a good price, that is to say substantially decreased adding that even if it was for the benefit of laboratories offering research and employment in Belgium was great.


Tickets moderators lowered in physio

From June 1, user fees will decrease for the first eighteen physiotherapy, when such acts relate to common diseases, and only after that user fees have already been reduced for heavy pathologists, reports including The Last Time, which states that " this measure is an extension of a government decision, which reached a budget of 4.25 million euro in 2006 'to make physiotherapy more accessible,' says one to the Inami .

IFPMA supports increased transparency for clinical studies

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations, IFPMA - IFPMA) said that it approved measures to increase transparency of clinical trials, " to help doctors and patients make more informed treatment choices easily . The IFPMA recalls in this context that the first step its portal
(http://clinicaltrials-dev.ifpma.org/) dedicated to clinical trials has been launched in September 2005 already, while improved portal, user-friendly and developed (with advanced search functions in English , French, German, English and Japanese) followed in March this year. IFPMA welcomes therefore positively WHO recommendations for a seamless collection of data from all ongoing clinical trials.

A French plan for the elderly

Dominique de Villepin has announced a five year plan 2007-2012 for the elderly, creating 5000 new places per year in the host institutions and the doubling of hospital at home (with 15,000 seats instead of the 8,000 current) are the main steps in, says Liberation. The Paris daily France has said that 12.1 million people over 60 years and that number could double by 2050 according to various projections. However, already today 900 000 people suffer from mild to heavy dependence.


The Federal Centre for Health Care Knowledge sets the foundation for the future of the management of diabetes (press KCE)

type 2 diabetes in the coming years will take epidemic proportions. How to guarantee the future of health care quality for these patients? To answer this question, the Federal Centre of Expertise in Health Care (KCE) has made an ambitious project in collaboration with the Flemish Diabetes Association (VDV) and four university centers of General Medicine (Ghent U, U of Antwerp, KU Leuven and UCL).
Diabetes is a serious chronic condition that affects one out of 20 Belgian while a Belgian out of ten will ever face. Globally, diabetes (mainly type 2) also increases, particularly following the aging population and rising obesity rates. The treatment of type 2 diabetes goes beyond control of sugar in the blood of other risk factors (overweight, high cholesterol) should also be treated. This multifaceted approach is a real challenge.
The organization of our health system is primarily oriented towards the management of acute problems, but less suitable for chronic conditions. The project KCE provides important scientific evidence which may serve as a basis for decisions on the organization of diabetes care and, by extension, the organization of care for other chronic conditions. The active involvement of the patient ("patient empowerment") has a positive effect on treatment outcome. Whether care provided in hospital or at home is small cons to the results provided that care are of high quality, consistent with current scientific evidence. The GP may, in consultation with the specialist, play a central role to provide such care.
An important element in the proposed strategy is to monitor quality of care, to obtain the desired results. The report of KCE provides indicators to measure quality of care.
Finally, it appears that isolated interventions can influence the quality of care. The scattered initiatives must make way for a health policy-oriented "disease management, support overall disease: why actions must be coordinated at the national level.
The full text of these recommendations can be downloaded at:
http://kce.fgov.be/index_fr.aspx?ID=0&SGREF=3470&CREF=6617.


Options after miscarriage (BMJ)

Trinder et al conducted a study including 1,200 women, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ 2006; 332: 1235) (http://bmj .bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/332/7552/1235) and designed to determine whether there are clinically important differences in the incidence of infections among gynecological surgical treatment and watchful waiting or treatment of miscarriages. The authors conclude that the incidence is low (2-3%) and there is no evidence in this respect according the approach chosen. There cons by a significantly higher admission and unplanned surgical curettage unplanned if we opt for watchful waiting and medical treatment rather than surgery.

call back to a patient who attempted suicide (BMJ )

A French study Vaiva et al, published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ 2006; 332: 1241) (http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/332/7552/1241) etmenée of 605 authors of a suicide attempt, shows that contact by telephone a person who has made such an attempt at least after the co-can reduce the number of recurrences of TS in the following year.

Alcohol and cardiovascular disease prevention

A Tolstrup et al study, conducted in Denmark between 1993 and 2002 and published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ 2006; 332: 1244) (http:// / bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/332/7552/1244) shows a discrepancy between men and women about the link between alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease prevention. Among women, the authors conclude, alcohol intake could be the determinant Primary inverse relationship between the drinking of alcohol and coronary risk, while among men, how often they drink rather than mere alcohol intake, seems more important.

Pearls Monitor

In Monitor, 24 May (see below) seems a Royal Decree concerning the conditions under which pharmacists and science graduates chloric are authorized to perform services of clinical . He obviously had read chemicals.


Information Ausi to visit the site MediPlanet


Chewing khat Increment risk of myocardial infarction

A study of Saha and Dollery, forthcoming next month in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine warns against the deleterious effects of chewing khat
(http : / / east.africa.free.fr / le_khat.htm) and asked the public and especially doctors to take notice. The leaves of khat are particularly popular in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and among immigrants from these regions. Among the health problems identified, increased risk of heart attacks, liver disease, gingivitis and tooth loss. In case of intensive use it adds the risk of esophageal cancer.

inhibitors

polyvalent inhibitors of angiotensin converting enzyme not only have a beneficial cardiovascular effect, but also very significantly reduce the incidence of esophageal cancer (-55%), pancreas (-48%) and colon (-47%). This is shown by three studies of Burt et al, the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport, made on the basis of data from about 500,000 veterans, presented at the recent Digestive Disease Week in Los Angeles.

Diagnostic test for the AIDS home to

The record of an oral diagnostic test of AIDS developed by OraSure Technology and already distributed to hospitals and health centers U.S., is under study FDA for sale to individuals for home use, including Fortune reports. And this at a time when we approach the 25th anniversary of the diagnosis of the five first cases of AIDS published by the CDC (but no one knows exactly at this moment what it was). The only existing test for home use requires the removal of a drop Blood on the finger and analyzed in a laboratory. Experts are generally more reluctant than the instant diagnosis at home, fearing the reactions of a suicidal patient facing the diagnosis alone.


The 'Challengers Trophy Top 40' and the Fund for Cardiac Surgery team up to combat inactivity

As he prepares to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, the 'Challengers Trophy' change of route. For a car rally, it would be nothing very surprising. It is not however a new route, but rather a modified formula. It now targets for more than forty years. This
us more particularly. Repeat that, in fact, cardiologists for their patients? Move! Get active! Do not be lulled into inactivity! The conclusion flows naturally from source: lead by example.
The 'Challengers Trophy Top 40' will be held from 8 to 11 June next. It takes competitors to the Heist Brussels via the Bay of Somme and Le Touquet. The concept is that of a regularity rally car in 'all roads' decorated with sporting challenges. Throughout the course, participants will practice the varied disciplines, golf, mountain biking, archery, orienteering, etc.. It will not be quite an obstacle course, but rather a journey of the athlete.
All caregivers are invited to this meeting.
The 'Challengers Trophy top 40 is open to teams of four people responding to a single criterion: "Having more than forty years and fart form."
Form a team within your institution and pass the information!
Because we are directly interested in the success of the 'Challenger Trophy top 40'. The Fund for Cardiac Surgery joined, in fact, the organization which, in turn, promised financial support for research.
In other words, participate in 'Challenger Trophy', 2006 version, is recommended for his own heart ... and that of others. Do not hesitate!
Participation is:
Registration fee: 3850 euros excl
fee: EUR 250 excl
For information and to register, visit www.challengerstrophy40plus.be.
Phone: 02-413.03.83


Released in the Moniteur of 24 and 26 May 2006

• Royal Decree amending the list attached to the Royal Decree of 24 October 2002 laying down the procedures, terms and conditions under which compulsory insurance health care and benefits involved in the cost of health foods for special medical purposes (p. 26364) • Royal Decree to
the conditions under which pharmacists and chemical science graduates qualified to perform clinical laboratory services can take photographs of sample (p. 26365)
• Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 26 September 1996 determining the manner in which are introduced and investigated by the Occupational Diseases Fund repair requests and review of compensation earned (p. 26366)
• Ministerial order fixing the maximum prices and maximum margins for the wholesale distribution and dispensing of medicines for human use as generic or registered on the basis of literature published scientific (p. 26376)
• Ministerial Order amending the ministerial decrees of 29 December 1989 on the prices of reimbursable drugs, 29 December 1989 on prices of non-refundable, 20 April 1993 laying down special pricing and April 2 1996 setting maximum prices and margins maximum wholesale distribution and dispensing of medicines for human use including non-refundable any form is subject to medical prescription (p. 26378)
• National Institute of sickness and disability. Insurance Committee for health care. Resignation and appointment of a member (p. 26435)
• National Institute of sickness and disability. Board of Appeal of French-speaking, established under the Department for evaluation and medical control. Resignation and appointment of a member (p. 26436)

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doctor's letter No. 349

There will be no edition of the Newsletter of the Doctor Thursday 25 and Friday, May 26, 2006. Our next edition will be published Monday, May 29

The daily figure: 2 diabetes may be implicated in the death of 225,000 Americans per year

On 24 May this year

1543: Death of Nicolas Copernicus
1798: Philippe Pinel , author of the Treatise on medico-philosophical insanity or mania, free the insane from their chains at the Bicêtre hospital
1844: sending the first telegram in Morse
1898: Birth of Helen Taussig, American pediatric cardiologist, the first woman professor at Johns Hopkins. Known for the operation Blalock-Taussig ² ²
1899: Birth of the writer Henri Michaux
1883: inauguration of the Brooklyn Bridge
1941: birth of Bob Dylan
1974: Death of Duke Ellington


Website of the Day : Contraception Online
http://www.contraceptiononline.org/

Quote of the Day: "Love: a term that has no meaning if defined." John Ralston Saul

Titles publishing


1. Temperature rises in Germany
2. Open letter in the Times against the NHS to support patamédecines
3. The legacy of Dr. Lee Jong-wook
4. A panel of UK expert for injecting rooms for heroin addicts
5. The German health care again fever
6. Sequencing the human genome: the last
deciphered chromosome 7. A new treatment for atrial fibrillation
8. Respiratory problems and cleaning
9. Screening colonoscopy in very elderly: is it quiet! (JAMA)
10. Obesity in Teens: depending on whether you are rich or poor (JAMA)


1. The temperature rises in Germany

The increasing bureaucratization and control measures of physicians, as we noted earlier provoked a strong discontent of the German practitioners. Last Friday, half of general practices were closed, while 20,000 doctors marched in Berlin. On the other hand, the conflict over medical fees in hospitals is stagnating.


2. Open letter in the Times against the NHS to support patamédecines

A series of British doctors leading publishing date, the Times ( http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, 0.2 to 2,191,985. html) an open letter to leaders of the NHS, to request that trusts (local management units) of the national health system no longer take care therapies have not proven their effectiveness, such as homeopathy or acupuncture. And this at a time when one expects a speech in Geneva of Prince Charles to the World Health Assembly, for the treatment to which he continues to promote.
The letter included two critical initiatives: a guide to homeopathy for patients funded by the government and a report commissioned by Prince Charles, suggesting greater access to alternative therapies in particular to make vast savings.

3. The legacy of Dr. Lee Jong-wook

Shortly after his arrival at the head of the WHO in 2003, says the BBC, Dr Lee Jong-wook, died of a stroke on Monday morning was the fight against HIV a top priority. He has launched the Three by Five. The intention was to put 3 million HIV-positive individuals in the poorest parts of the world on ARVs by the end of 2005. It is estimated that is far below that goal, which brought the leaders of the WHO to submit a public apology. Consensus is not to blame Lee Jong-wook for this failure. "There is no room for satisfaction in our fight against HIV. We must maintain pressure to ensure that prevention, treatment and care is coordinated and operational, "wrote Lee Jong-wook in the last speech he would have had to vote on Monday afternoon before the fifty-ninth World Health Assembly health.


4. A panel of UK expert for injecting rooms for heroin addicts

A British panel of independent experts recommended special rooms where addicts can safely inject their product, reports the BBC. Such an initiative is already in Australia. This would reduce, according to these experts, the risks of contracting various diseases, as well as overdoses. As expected, the Home Office (interior ministry) predicted it, increased activities of drug dealers and drug-related crimes if they opened such injection chambers.

5. The German health care again fever

Three years after a major reform of health care, Medicare German plunges back into the red. After the surplus of 1.7 billion euros in 2005 would be a deficit of one billion euros for the current year, reported the German weekly Focus. In this context it is a little dark to see the conflict between doctors and government in Germany. "The German doctors are currently fighting against the federal government because of the guardianship and custody of their financial activity. The tightening accounting results in a reversal of doctors when exceed the targets. This struggle has been ours for the past ten years and we've got the disappearance of this way of behaving of government in our country. But this disappearance is always precarious and requires from us great attention. Moreover, the German doctors, mainly third-party payers, realize that by their capitation system, 30% of the activity they provide they are not paid. That's a stone in the garden of those who would pay third-leading generalized in an obvious way the guardianship of the good doctor's work provisions of funds, "published on this bulletin UNOF the (union's branch French medical generalist CSMF).

6. Sequencing the human genome: the last chromosome deciphered

Researchers at the Sanger Institute in England, succeeded in sequencing the last chromosome in the human genome, including Liberation reported. And to clarify that the "chromosome 1" contains nearly twice as many genes as the average of other chromosomes and accounts for only 8% of the genetic code of man.


7. A new treatment for atrial fibrillation

focal administration of acetylcholine in the atrioventricular node may represent a new therapy for atrial fibrillation in which the ventricular rate is controlled through the use of an implantable drug delivery system, conclude Sigg et al , authors of a study published in Circulation (2006; 113:2383)
( http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/113/20/2383?etoc ).


8. Respiratory problems and cleaning

Zock et al conducted a study to be published in the European Respiratory Journal, to see if asthma and bronchitis worsened among professional cleaners, because of contact with various cleaning products. They conclude that some products used in this context can affect the respiratory health of professional cleaners. It is unclear, they add, if their non-business use in homes may also have similar effects.

9. Screening colonoscopy in very elderly: is it quiet! (JAMA)

Although the prevalence of cancer increases with age, screening colonoscopy in people very old (80 years) results only 15% gain in life expectancy achieved in younger patients. We must therefore carefully weigh the pros and cons before making a screening colonoscopy for these patients, Lin et al conclude, authors of a study published today in JAMA (2006; 295:2357)
( http:/ / jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/20/2357? ETOC).

10. Obesity in Teens: depending on whether you are rich or poor (JAMA)

The tendency to obesity is increasing among young people 15 to 17 living below the official poverty compared to other kids their age. This is not the case for adolescents 12 to 14 years. In addition, Miech et al conclude, the authors of a study published in JAMA (2006; 295:2385)
( http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/20/2385 ? ETOC ), physical inactivity, the making of soft drinks and skipping breakfast are potential targets for prevention programs in this regard, they note yet.

Information to also check the site MediPlanet


1. Saudis shun U.S. hospitals
2. Recommendations good clinical practice in cases of medical liability: a weapon or a shield? (Text of KCE)
3. Suicide, the choice of weapons
4. For UNAMEC, Belgium has missed the boat of the revolution in cardiology of guardians coronary (Press UNAMEC)

1. Saudis shun U.S. hospitals

For a number of U.S. hospitals is a fiscal disaster. A program that worked for many years and which brought the rich Saudis seek care in U.S. hospitals has been closed. This decision is a consequence the degradation of the climate between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia since September 11, 2001.


2. Recommendations for good clinical practice in cases of medical liability: a weapon or a shield? (text KCE)

Recommendations of good clinical practice are tools that compile an ever increasing amount of medical information. They are published by scientific bodies and sometimes by public services and provide a decision support for physicians and patients. At the legal level, they can also be used in case of medical liability lawsuits. It is clear from the analysis Legal Center Federal Health Care (KCE) that the recommendations of good practice should be considered as the possible translation of what constitutes proper medical conduct.
To question the responsibility of a physician in our legal system, the patient must prove that it has erred. The use of good practice recommendations in this goal is a double-edged sword. If a physician deviates from a recommendation of good practice, one can imagine that his responsibility is called into question if he can not justify its deviation in the particular case is judged. Recommendations for good practice in such cases can be used by patients as evidence of lack of diligence on the part of the physician. Conversely, a doctor may rely on the fact that he followed a recommendation to properly defend themselves.
If recommendations of good practice are used to determine the legal care of a physician, their legal weight should be equal to their scientific quality. A recommendation of quality must be scientifically justified, reproducible and applicable, specific, flexible and expressed in clear and understandable language. In addition, its quality should ideally be confirmed by external validation, as in the BICAM (Belgian Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine) and must be maintained. If several recommendations exist for a given clinical situation, we can thus establish a hierarchy between them according to their quality. The KCE
argues in his report that physicians who correctly apply a recommendation of good quality are protected to the maximum, if questioned their responsibility, because they have followed this recommendation. Recommendations for good practice can be used as a defense by doctors when questioned their responsibility.

The full text of these recommendations is available on the website of KCE: www.centredexpertise.fgov.be (under "publications") as reference KCE reports vol 26B: "Medico-legal recommendations for good medical practice."

(full text of the Federal Centre of Expertise of health care, commonly referred to as its Flemish name of Kenniscentrum)

3. Suicide, the choice of weapons

The methods chosen by the candidates for suicide vary not only according to sex, but also between countries. This is shown in an international comparative study presented Monday at meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Toronto. Thus
Swedish women opt preferably for drugs, while those in Taiwan choose hanging or pesticides. And the USA, they are divided between the poisoning (mainly drug overdoses) and firearms.
One of the findings of the authors is that up to 44 years, suicide rates are similar in the three countries mentioned above. After there is a peak between 45 and 64 years in USA and Sweden, with a decrease thereafter, while the suicide rate began to rise from 65 years in Taiwan.


4. For UNAMEC, Belgium has missed the boat of the revolution in cardiology of guardians coronary (Press UNAMEC)

From May 16 to 19 held a congress in Paris Cardiology worthwhile. One theme that was presented, is the growing success of the new generation of guardians Coronary Drug Eluting Stents called. Doctors and researchers around the world can exchange knowledge and experiences on this new type of guardian who is indisputably a major therapeutic advance in the treatment of patients with coronary problems. Drug

Eluting Stents, a therapeutic advance
Drug Eluting Stent
A (DES) is a small prosthesis consists of a wire coated with a drug substance that gradually diffuses an active substance which prevents the formation of scar tissue. The Guardian opens the blocked vessel and then kept open thus preventing restenosis (the ship that becomes blocked again) after the procedure. Scientific data now available show that in fact, through the use of such stents, a significant decrease of restenosis has been registered, why use this new generation of tutors is in most cases recommended.
With this new technology, this intervention is limited in time and does not require lengthy hospitalization. It generally allows patients to resume rapidly their professional and social activities under the best conditions and lead a normal life.
Therefore, the significant benefits of this new generation of guardians (DES) are definitely part of the armamentarium available to modern cardiology.

The Belgian private patient the best care available

On the occasion of EuroPCR, which takes place in a few days in Paris, UNAMEC, the Professional Association of Manufacturers, importers and distributors of medical equipment, again draws attention to the fact that Belgium could completely miss the boat.
Indeed, in Belgium, because of limited reimbursement system, the placement of a guardian is the exception rather than the rule. This means that the Belgian patient has no access to the most effective therapeutic methods and is disadvantaged compared to patients from other European countries where tutors are available to a wider group of patients.
so ago about a year, tutors were able to enjoy during a time of political attention, when it was learned that the Prime Minister, following heart problems, has benefited from the placement of a guardian. A few days after surgery, the Prime Minister has returned to work and is "living proof" of the importance of tutors in the treatment of patients with coronary problems.
Whoever has hoped that any patient with this disease could now have easier access to tutors, was wrong. In reality, this new generation of guardians is still not available to approximately 23,000 patients, which the medical point of view, should be treated with tutors.
Currently, Belgium, diabetic patients, considered a risk group, are the only ones who can receive a refund when sufficient investment Drug Eluting Stent with a. Elsewhere in Europe, the group at risk is defined much more broadly. Belgium, a country nearly the lowest penetration of this new technology in Europe.
figures illustrate this unquestionably ethical problem. Indeed, Belgium has a penetration rate 30%, Germany 39%, France 52% Netherlands 65% Spain 67%, UK 70%, 80% of Austria and Switzerland no less than 86%. The European average is 52%. (*)
UNAMEC appeals to all political leaders to urgently expand Belgian reimbursement guardians of all patients affected by this type of implantation. All cardiac patients were Belgian, undoubtedly, the right to access to available therapies are most effective.
UNAMEC is the Professional Association of Manufacturers, importers and distributors of medical devices is recognized that groups and businesses that produce and distribute medical devices, which include companies that have developed and produce including coronary guardians.



to Monitor Released May 23, 2006
Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 25 April 2002 on the attachment and liquidation of the budget financial resources of hospitals (p. 26326) amending the Royal Decree
Royal Decree of 3 July 1996 to implement the law on compulsory insurance and health care benefits, coordinated July 14, 1994 (p. 26211)
Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 15 July 2002 on the implementation of Chapter III bis of Title III of the Act on compulsory health insurance and benefits, coordinated July 14, 1994 (p. 26213)
French Community Commission of Brussels-Capital Region: Decree consent to the cooperation agreement of 2 September 2002 between the Federal State, Communities, the Joint Community Commission, the French Community Commission and the Regions for a policy of comprehensive and integrated drug (p. 26224)
French Community Commission of Region Brussels-Capital: Decree consent to the Cooperation Agreement between the Federal State, the Flemish Community, the Flemish Region, the French Community, Walloon Region, speaking Community, the Brussels-Capital Region, the Joint Community Commission and the French Community Commission, establishing a National Commission for the Rights of the Children, concluded at Brussels, 19 September 2005 (p. 26227)
Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree of 16 February 1987 appointing the president, vice-president and members of the Joint National Medical Hospitals (p. 26,229)
Staff. Appointment (p. 26229)
Staff. Appointment (p. 26230)
Staff. Appointment (p. 26,230)

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(Tuesday, May 23, 2006)


The daily figure : 17% of children and adolescents and 32% of adults the U.S. are obese.

May 23 of that year

1718: Birth of William Hunter, Scottish anatomist and surgeon, author of the treatise Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus
1734: birth of Franz Anton Messmer, pioneer of 'animal magnetism'
1795: Benjamin Franklin invented the glass bifocal
1906: death of the Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen
1910: Birth of the clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw
1992: murder of Judge Falcone, the Italian Mafia


Website of the Day: End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC)
http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/

Quote of the Day: " It's good to be charitable, but to whom? is the point. "The Fountain

to Monitor Released May 22, 2006

* Royal decree setting the date on which the list of voters for elections in 2006 medical is established by the National Institute of sickness and disability (p. 26160)
* National Institute of sickness and disability. Drug Reimbursement Committee, established under the Department of Health. Resignation. Appointment (p. 26032)
* National Institute of sickness and disability. Drug Reimbursement Committee, established under the Department of Health. Resignations. Appointments (p. 26032) *
Ministerial Order appointing the members of Urgent Medical Aid for the Province of East Flanders (p. 26032)
* Council of State: Professional Union of Surgeons Belgian trade association based in Brussels (p. 26094) *
State Council: Belgian Professional Association of Paediatricians, professional association based in Brussels (p. 26095)
* Council of State: Professional Union of Belgian Specialists in Care intensive professional association based in Brussels (p. 26097)


Titles publishing
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1. List of voters for elections Medical
2. The WMA refines his views on the problem doctors face torture
3. Surgery for GERD and obesity: safe and effective
4. Report complacency NHS
5. Bone density and breast
6. Stem cells to treat urinary incontinence
7. Berezina coverage in health insurance in the U.S.
8. Hello, my name is Mona Lisa ...
9. Violence between small (s) friend (s)
10. Concerns about the Big Mac super

1. List of voters for elections Medical

We read above that the royal decree setting the date on which the list of electors for medical elections in 2006 is established by the National Health Insurance Disability recently published yesterday in the Belgian. This date was set for Friday, May 26, 2006. Add that in terms of eligible candidates, the blur still exists always the Flemish side.

2. The WMA refines his views on the problem of doctors face torture

The World Medical Association has clarified his views on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees and prisoners. In conducting its Board in Divonne-les-Bains (France) AMM has accepted the revision of the Tokyo Declaration to remind physicians to be particularly careful to ensure the confidentiality of all personal medical information when they provide assistance to prisoners and detainees to face interrogation. Dr. Yoram Blachar, chairman of the WMA, said that the doctors can not approve, facilitate or participate in any form of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and they can not use their medical knowledge to violate human rights and civil liberties.
The WMA has also formally requested, at the same meeting, China to stop using prisoners for organ donation.

3. Surgery for GERD and obesity: safe and effective

frequently performed surgical procedures at the upper digestive tract to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease or as a means to combat obesity has long been discussed in terms of safety and efficiency, are both safe and effective, according to data presented this weekend at the Digestive Disease Week, Los Angeles. These interrventions allow quality control of these problems and their symptoms.

4. Report complacency NHS

According to NHS Confederation, which comprises the managers of the national system of British health care, in the latter have improved significantly in recent years, despite a decrease in net enough beds available. Between 1984 and 2004, the number of beds is in fact fallen from 211 617-145 218 (-31%). For the NHS Confederation, better care outside hospitals and technical advances, including reducing the length of hospitalization, helped to reduce the number of beds without compromising quality care. Physicians, themselves, insist that the removal of an excessive number of beds has actually compromised the quality.

5. Bone density and breast

The common link with estrogen suggests that there may be a relationship between bone mineral density and mammographic density. But if a study provides a little support to this hypothesis, another found no such a link. Therefore, if a relationship exists between the two densities in question must be very low, says J. Cuzick, author of a study published in Breast Cancer Research (2006, 8:104).


6. Stem cells to treat urinary incontinence

Women suffering from urinary stress incontinence were treated as part of a clinical study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, for stem cells derived from their own muscles and to strengthen their sphincter muscle. This world first positive results, as communicated to the authors at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) in Atlanta, who stressed the value of their approach, since 13 million people, mostly girls, suffer from this problem the United States alone.


7. Berezina coverage in health insurance in the U.S.

As part of a call for papers (call for articles) (JAMA 2006; 295:2182) ( http://jama.ama -assn.org/cgi/content/full/295/18/2182 ) for a special issue on access to health care in the United States and intended to be published in March 2007 that Rennie and Fontanarosa return in a recent issue of JAMA programmed into the collapse of the healthcare system in this country. Apart from the traditional problems of the unemployed and marginalized, the base system itself seems to collapsing, say the authors of the text. The system is indeed based on health insurance once offered by all employers to their employees. However, they add, an increasing number of employers no longer offer this benefit. A study based on data from 2001 shows that 22 million of 112.8 million American workers have received no such assurance. Only 56% of employees in companies employing fewer than 25 employees receive such coverage. Not surprisingly, the number of Americans without insurance has Sane care, despite some efforts, increased by 6 million between 2000 and 2004. One report suggests that this situation will only worsen. We consacreins documentation to this important issue in a future edition of Medi-Sphere.

8. Hello, my name is Mona Lisa ...

Leonardo da Vinci he never imagined that his enthusiasm would generate Mona Lisa when he painted this portrait?
A scientist has in any case decided to resort to the table, literally. We read in La Repubblica that Matsumi Suzuki, an expert in acoustics and "voiceprintingtechnology" decided to decode an unexplored mystery of Mona Lisa in restoring the voice of one that inspired Leonard and many others after him, after complex calculations that take into consideration the aspect of the subject. Dr. Matsumi Suzuki is not a doctor Nutty but an expert who has developed a technology already used by police to solve homicides.
course, if we can reconstruct the voice of Mona Lisa, no technique can now read his thoughts so she can say what you want her to say ...

EB-M.


9. Violence between small (s) friend (s)

about 9% of U.S. high school students report having been hit (s), slapped (s) or assault (s) physically (on) small (e) friend (s). And the answers are surprisingly very similar for boys (8.9%) and girls (8.8%), according to a survey published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC journal.


10. Concerns about the Big Mac super

There was a time when producers junk food put water in their wine and tried to mitigate the disaster diet favored by their products, but on the side of McDonald's it seems to have returned to traditional values. Thus the new superburger, which contains 36% more calories than a Big Mac classic and should be launched at the World Cup football. English indignant MPs and will ask to ban this awesome Big Mac that should be sold for six weeks


Information to also check the site MediPlanet

1. About waiting lists in plastic surgery in public hospitals Dutch
2. 2.18 million inmates in the USA
3. Software to counter the excessive computer use
4. CO2: China and India close behind the U.S.


1. About waiting lists in plastic surgery in public hospitals Dutch

The Dutch Health Minister Hoogervorst denounces the fact that patients often wait months to undergo plastic surgery, because two thirds of the specialists are busy making operations much more lucrative cosmetic surgery in private clinics, reports HuisartsVandaag.


2. 2.18 million inmates in the USA

Le Monde reported that on 30 June 2005, the number of inmates that had American prisons was 2,180,000. On average, 1 in 136 is living behind bars in the U.S., against 1 for 1000 in France, said the French quoditien.

3. Software to counter the excessive computer use

Excessive computer usage is definitely harmful. Pain in the arms, neck, shoulders, etc.: affection, called Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) by the Anglo-Saxons, is well known. Among the new medicines to treat and prevent these particular musculo-skeletal, tells us T-Zine, a free program called ... Workrave ( http://www.workrave.org/welcome/ ). This program reminds the user at regular intervals it is time to take a short break (microbreak), pause a little longer (restbreak) is also required at times. It also recommends making some small exercises, graphic demonstration in support.

4. CO2: China and India close behind U.S.

The U.S. remains the largest emitters of carbon dioxide, according to a report by the World Bank, but they are now closely followed by China and India. Between 1992 and 2002, CO2 emissions in China have increased by 33% and India 57% (against 15% for the entire planet), says the Worldwatch Institute.

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