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
additional information visit the site to Monitor Released MediPlanet
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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