doctor's letter No. 354
There will not be the doctor's letter this Monday, June 5, Whit Monday. The No. 355 thus appear Tuesday, June 6
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On 2 June of that year
1697: publication of Treatise Of The Diseases of Infants and Children , John Pechey
1824: Birth of Samuel Wilks, an English physician who described the bacterial endocarditis and alcoholic paraplegia
1881: Louis Pasteur demonstrated its vaccine against anthrax in sheep
1953: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth in England
Website of the Day: Biological Anthropology Resources on the World Wide Web
Quote of the Day: "He who lives hope will die fasting . Benjamin Franklin
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Titles publishing
Unintended Consequences of a ceiling for the reimbursement of drugs by Medicare (NEJM)
SOS Doctors yesterday celebrated its 40th anniversary
Skid budget of health care in France
Elderly in the U.S.: a continued drop in the number of caregivers
Delivery after previous cesarean
A new study shows that female genital mutilation exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth (press WHO)
Vaccine chik: Testing for December?
The debate on banning smoking in public places in France
The stimulus tax, dentists and plastic surgeons
Unintended Consequences of a ceiling for reimbursement by Medicare drug (NEJM)
L introduction of a ceiling of $ 1,000 for reimbursement of
drugs under Medicare (Social Security for 65 years and over) is the kind of shortsighted decision of view that the boomerang effects are not thin. This is the finding Hsu et al, authors of a study published in the yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine ( N Engl J Med 2006; 354: 2349).
economy covered by the measure has resulted in an increased number of hospitalizations and use of emergency services. Those patients who had such a cap also showed a higher mortality.
SOS Doctors yesterday celebrated its 40th anniversary
is the daily Le Parisien French which recalled yesterday that the SOS Doctors celebrated its 40th anniversary this Thursday. The newspaper also took the opportunity to follow in his tour night in Paris, one of those "1 000 practitioners who ply our cities and still come home."
Skid 600 million budget for health care in France
The warning Committee on developments in health insurance spending in France is estimated that spending could derail repayment of 600 million euros this year, but it does not require relief in the short term, announce Les Echos.
Elderly in the U.S.: a continued drop in the number of caregivers
The number of health workers (in full-time equivalents) engaged in Medicare patients (Social Security for 65 + U.S.) fell 13% between 1970 and 2000. But the decline has only begun emphasize Jerry Kruse and the Association of Departments of Family Medicine in the Annals of Family Medicine . In 2030, there will be in this sector 40% of workers in less than earlier this decade. Evolution due to aging of the population, but also a health care system "dysfunctional " the authors add. It will come out in particular by strengthening the weight of general practice, rather pathetic, in the system American Care, add more authors.
Delivery after previous cesarean
In 1999, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) adopted more restrictive guidelines in terms of vaginal delivery after a cesarean delivery previously concluded . Zweifler et al conducted a study in this context for comparing the rates of neonatal and maternal mortality among women undergoing vaginal birth after previous caesarean section, on the one hand and women who have undergone a Caesarean section repeatedly.
practice the first of these two options has declined significantly after the publication of the ACOG guidelines, but said the results proved similar options, conclude the authors of the study published in the
Annals of Family Medicine ( 2006; 4: 228).
A new study shows that female genital mutilation exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth (WHO press release)
A new study published by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that women who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) are significantly more likely to experience difficulties during childbirth and their babies are at greater risk of dying.
Among the serious complications during childbirth include the risk of caesarean section, heavy bleeding after birth and prolonged hospitalization. The study showed that the degree of complications increased with the extent and severity of mutilation.
In women who have undergone the most extreme form of FGM ("MSF III"), the risk of caesarean section is on average 30% higher compared to those who have not had any FGM. Similarly, the risk of postpartum hemorrhage was 70% higher in women with FGM Type III.
complete study can be found in the Lancet of date ( 2006; 367: 1835).
Full Story to read on MediPlanet
Vaccine chik: Testing for December?
" We hope to begin testing the vaccine in December " is what says in Liberation Antoine Flahault president of the national unit (French) on Chikungunya. " While chikungunya epidemic continues to spread throughout the Indian Ocean 255 000 people living in Reunion, Mayotte in 6000, 9000 Seychelles, 6000 in Mauritius searches, set up in record time, making great strides "said Libe yet. Researchers at the Institute Pasteur in fact sequenced the entire genome of six virus strains isolated from patients in the island of Reunion
The debate on banning smoking in public places relaunched in France
The 'World No Tobacco Day' was an opportunity to revive in France the debate on banning smoking in public places. Le Figaro notes and the Health Minister, Xavier Bertrand, has again promised that "a decision will be made before the end of the year." The ban is adopted, the Minister specifies, but those are the terms that are still being developed.
The taxman, dentists and plastic surgeons
Extensive monitoring activity of the treasury, conducted in recent months among dentists and plastic surgeons, provided remarkable results, reports De Standaard. The tax thus recovered an average of 10,000 euros and 18,600 euros dentist by artist. And yet is it not that the amounts on which tax authorities and practitioners are agreed.
Information to also check the site MediPlanet
a very undesirable effect of chemo
A notary may refuse to write a certificate for a gay marriage
There are no stupid
The new studies NVD pedophile party already endangered
One very undesirable effect of chemo
is the Standaard reported yesterday that an unusual case of discrimination complaint with the Centre for Equal Opportunities. This is a young woman who had undergone chemotherapy and thus having lost all his hair. So she wore a cap and that is what prompted the makers of him dancing to deny access. The judicial apparatus having started, the dancing lawyer claims there is no evidence of the facts.
A notary may refuse to write a certificate for a gay marriage
is still Standaard signaling that the provincial Chamber of Notaries of Antwerp ruled against a notary Antwerp who refused to write a certificate of marriage to homosexual couples. The notary must obey the stipulations of the law and not be guided by his personal feelings, "said the College of Notaries.
There are no stupid studies
There are no stupid studies, as there are no stupid trades. That's what we have a little life by learning to say a study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Basra shows that the marshes of southern Iraq, logically torn by war, are now showing signs of remarkable recovery. Fish, invertebrate animals, birds and plants are recovering so amazing in those swamps. Maybe look into this aspect it is also a way to avoid being completely crushed by the conflict that has gripped the country. Some say they do not, moreover, that the mythical Garden of Eden was located in this region?
The new party pedophile NVD already endangered
We detailed in our last edition of the rantings of a pedophile new party Netherlands. Liberation is still which tells us the following series: " According to a poll released May 30, 1982% of Dutch people want the government to intervene to prevent the initiative to go further ." Held 'repulsive', 'horrible' and 'unhealthy' by the entire Dutch political class, the NVD is likely to suffer the same fate as the CP86, banned in 1998 for his fascist ideology , "says the Paris daily.
to Monitor Released June 1, 2006
* Act for consent to the Cooperation Agreement between the Federal State, the Flemish Community, French Community, speaking Community and the Common Community Commission on the implementation of the Law of 24 April 2003 reforming adoption (p. 28646)
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