IN SEARCH OF THE PANACEA wants to wish everyone a Happy New Year 2010 filled of optimism, hope and joy, but above all a 2010 full of health so that it can enjoy.
May the new year is full of achievements and successes in the world at large, and the world of medicine in particular, which is what concerns us, and that many expecting people living DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT a, a CURE for your illness, or simply a better QUALITY OF LIFE.
hope for 2010 will be a year full of discoveries .
injectable contraceptives can cause loss of bone mineral density Carbon and silicon
According to the results of a study conducted by experts from University Medical Center of Texas in Galveston, United States ( University of Texas Medical Branch ), half of women using injectables suffers loss of bone mineral density in the hip or the bottom of column two years after starting treatment.
The article, published in the January 2010 issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology , main objective is to identify factors predictive of increased bone loss, defined as at least 5% at the spine or femoral neck loa medrosiprogesterona users acetate (DMPA) over time.
research to patients was measured bone mineral density (BMD) every six months in the lumbar spine and femoral neck. The initial sample consisted of 240 white women, black and Hispanic.
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these two hundred and forty patients, ninety-five completed the twenty-four month period. As a result it was found that forty-five of them (more than half ) had a loss of at least five percent of bone mineral density, and a total of fifty women suffered a smaller percentage for the same time.
Another interesting for the experts was the observation in those female smokers who had not yet been mothers or whose daily calcium intake was less than 600 milligrams . The risk of loss of density bone mineral was greater for these women.
Despite all this the author of the study, Dr. Abbey Berenson (in Figure 2) he emphasized that the loss of bone mineral density should not be a major concern for all women who choose DMPA as a contraceptive treatment. Mahrburbur Professor Rahman, another of the center's researchers, said in turn that the recovery of this loss takes time, especially in women using this contraceptive.
Two researchers at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Alcalá , Francisco Javier de la Mata and Rafael Gomez (Image 1) have made an important discovery in the field of medicine. They have discovered that carbon and silicon, two elements that are present in our environment, could be the basis of a new AIDS treatment, less toxic and effective at doses lower than those currently available. Furthermore, this treatment could curb the disease within infected cells.
The key to this new treatment would be in carbosilane dendrimers (in Figure 2 a dendrímetro simulated structure), which are "three-dimensional molecules containing carbon -silicon, are capable of binding to cell nucleic material, protect and transport it to the inside of the cells infected by HIV ". So "by facilitating the inhibition of virus, slow expansion to other cells" , these researchers explain.
Francisco Javier and Rafael are immersed for more than five years in this research project, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology of the Hospital Gregorio Maranon de Madrid . Now the results have been embodied in a patent has been awarded in the Contest Madrid 2008 the best patents. In this event the jury highlighted "the importance of the invention of the patent and the expected impact of it in the field of biomedicine, as well as internationalization strategy developed" .
But also the role of the dendrimers does not end here, as researchers at the University of Alcalá are collaborating with the University of Navarra to achieve effective cancer dendrimers. They also have launched a collaborative project with the Universidad Complutense, and work together with research groups from France, Germany, Czech Republic or Poland in the international arena. With the latter are conducting a study on the ability of these molecules in biomedicine, with the aim of using them as agents in antipriónicos treatment of Alzheimer's.
Slowly we discover the winners of the Christmas Quiz on trivago. Trivagonsitas who have left the victors until 9 based on the results of the ONCE lottery are:
December 1: Paradores of Spain . This prize includes two nights in a double room with breakfast included in any hostel in Spain. This ticket is valid throughout 2010. Winner: ezequiel89
December 2: Hotel El Cortijo La Presa . This prize includes two nights in a double room with breakfast in the hotel El Cortijo la Prensa. This voucher is valid until May 31, 2010 and is subject to availability. Not valid on holidays Christmas, Easter and on 14 February. Winner: yakipo
December 3: Hotel Zenit Sevilla. This prize includes two nights in a double room with breakfast in the hotel Zenit Sevilla. This ticket is valid throughout 2010 and is subject to availability. Winner: rpedrosa
December 4: Hotel Silken Al-Andalus . This prize includes two nights in a double room with breakfast in the hotel Silken Al-Andalus. This ticket is valid throughout 2010 and is subject to availability. Not valid on Easter or the Feria de Abril. Winner: luisa98
December 5: Hotel Zenit Lleida. This prize includes two nights in a double room with breakfast included in the Zenit Lleida. This ticket is valid throughout 2010 and is subject to availability. Winner: Juniet
December 6: Hotel Rural Las Calas . This prize includes two nights in a double room with breakfast in the hotel Rural Las Calas. This ticket is valid throughout 2010 and is subject to availability. Winner: javierdd
December 7: Hotel Amic Horizonte. This award consists of three nights in a double room with breakfast included in hotel Amic Horizonte. This ticket is valid throughout 2010 and is subject to availability. Winner: darkblack74
December 8: Hotel Pere IV. This prize includes two nights in a double room with breakfast in the hotel Pere IV. This ticket is valid throughout 2010 and is subject to availability. Winner: darkblack74
December 9 : Hotel Zenit Coruña. This prize includes two nights in a double room with breakfast included in the Zenit Coruña. This ticket is valid throughout 2010 and is subject to availability. Winner: judge
In December the average price of English hotels down to 81 euros on average, although the Christmas holidays and the bridge of the Immaculate ago expected to increase reserves. It is the most significant data that follows the THPI (trivago Hotel Price Index) index published by the hotel price comparison www.trivago.es To study the evolution of hotel rates from month to month.
The average price of accommodation is in English 84 euros, three less than last month and far and the average 102 euros in August. Other European countries such as Denmark almost doubled English tariffs to 157 euros on average. Still, not Spain the most economical. In the queue are placed Poland, 65 euros, Hungary, 67 euros, and the Czech Republic, 70 euros. The hotels of our neighbors in Portugal are also among the cheapest to 72 euros on average.
Santiago de Compostela is the English city with lower hotel rates, 63 euros on average. Are close Murcia and Zaragoza, both with 65 euros, and Granada, 66 euros. The highest prices are found in Palma de Mallorca, 102 euros, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSan Sebastian and 96 euros, 95 euros.
Copenhagen, Geneva and Oslo, the most expensive cities in Europe
Compared with the low prices of many English cities, some of the capital are well above the 100 euros on average. Copenhagen is considered the city with the most expensive accommodation on the continent with an average of € 184, Geneva comes to 176 euros and Oslo, the 165 euros.
On the other side of the balance found Krakow to spend The night costs 61 euros a night and Budapest, which stands at 63 euros.
Madrid and Barcelona drop its prices by 11% compared to 2008
In December last year the average price for a double room in Madrid was 106 euros per night in Barcelona of 108 euros. Prices have declined in both cities, but it is a symptom common to other European capitals. Lisbon falls 14%, from 94 euros to Amsterdam 81 and 13%, from 121 euros to 105. The aforementioned
Copenhagen is one of the few exceptions, as their rates have increased by 8%. Paris, however, maintains the same rates as last year, 135 euros on average.
A study by the Study Group Patient and Older multimorbidity of the English Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) under of Profund Project ( and predictive prognostic model for patients with multiple comorbidities functional development in Spain ) has revealed that the profile of the carer relates mainly to women, a key social role and little known among the English.
Major obejtivos of the English Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) is to improve patient care and the elderly multimorbidity and the quality of care provided to this population. That is why it has carried out the Project Profund to "advance scientific knowledge of survival and functional impairment in patients with multiple comorbidities" , in the words of Dr. Máximo Bernabeu-Wittel, project coordinator .
Thus, Dr. Javier Garcia Alegria, president of the English Foundation Internal Medicine (PEF), says that through this study has made an approach to the figure of the caregiver, reaching data collection developers "confirming an undisputed fact that social and family had pointed timidly studies smaller individual health centers ".
PROFILE PATIENT AND CAREGIVER
This project involved a total of 1,632 patients and more than fifty researchers of thirty-six English hospitals.
The conclusions have been reached are the following:
Just over half of these patients require a caretaker figure that most of the time is usually someone close. Usually this is a woman of the family and the patient receives care at the family home.
The most frequent relationship between the caregiver and the patient is the father / mother - daughter, giving this relationship by 43.2 % of the cases analyzed. Followed that of wife (40% of the time), hired professional (9.1%) and finally a second-degree relative (7.7% of cases). In
the 1,632 participants, 890 (over half) had a high level of dependence, as required of the post of caretaker.
Of these 1,632 patients, 1,186 had the help of the carer, in a 81% of the cases was a woman, with an average age between 41 and 50 years.
The bottom line is that often the wives and / or daughters who assume the caregiver role, and do so in the family home.
But also today, the best living conditions and advances in medicine have resulted in countries developed life expectancy is greater, so the number of people living with one or more chronic diseases for many years has also increased, becoming in patients with multiple comorbidities. In a 2006 study, found that people between 65 and 74 have an average of 2.8 problems or chronic diseases, reaching 3.2, among those over 75 years.
According to Dr. Berndt-Wittel, "These data should make us reflect on important issues such as gender equality, the key role played by carers of patients fragile in our society, poor social and institutional recognition of this role, and the implications and connotations that implies. "
snuff smoke could be associated with behavior problems in children
According to a study of the I nstitute Epidemiology Helmholtz Zentrum Munich (Germany), smoke snuff may be associated with behavioral problems in children. This influence would be greater during pregnancy, since this is a more sensitive stage of development.
The study data showed that children who were exposed to snuff before birth had a 1.9 times greater risk of developing symptoms of abnormal behavior compared with those not breathe that smoke. In addition, this study revealed that children who are exposed to this air pollution have a 1.3 times greater risk than not. Thus the chances of having negative effects are multiplied by two for the young who are exposed to smoke both during pregnancy and after birth.
Symptoms that may have or develop are the hyperactivity , the attention deficit or problems in relating . These results are independent of the social environment in which children grow and there's a big difference between children who have been exposed to snuff during the prenatal stage or just after birth.
According to Dr. Joachim Heinrich, the National Center for Environmental Health Research Munich, "the value of this study is based not only on research but also in understanding this work as possible levels of contamination for the unborn, infants and children at different ages to determine the effects in each age and their differences. "
Christmas Christmas Quiz trivago . is how we help you travel around the face in 2010?
In order to deliver the greatest possible number of gifts this holiday season and help the surfers to visit new places in 2010, the network of trivago has created an online competition in which are given over 200 prizes this Christmas on all platforms trivago. Only in the English platform, www.trivago.es is to give away more than 70 nights in 37 rooms.
All prizes are hotel stays at least two nights with breakfast included. Those who wish to participate need only write an opinion trivago December 1 to 6 January. The opinion may be about a hotel, monument, restaurant or other tourist attraction worldwide.
Each day of the contest will be awarded a prize and only to write a single user opinion trivago participate not only in the draw for that day, but in all the draws are made until completion. The more opinions leave, get more numbers for the draw, so more chances of winning. For example, if you write an opinion today trivago about your favorite restaurant, not only participate in the draw for the prize that is granted today, but for all prizes to be distributed until 6 January. And no matter how many times you win!
To ensure neutrality in the choice of the winners will take on the results of the draw of the ONCE. The numbers of all participants will be posted on the official forum of the competition before the draw.
The game is found in various international platforms trivago. In Spain 37 rooms are distributed to hotels to find the mark inn, cottages, or chains so important such as hotels or Zenit Hoteles Silken. The panel all the awards where the winners will also be published in the official contest page .
Before posting anything I would like to explain why I chose this title for my blog.
panacea panacea Latin , and this in turn from Greek πανάκεια ("pan" means all and "akos" remedy) is the word that gives the drug capable of curing various enfermededades. So when we speak of the universal panacea we refer to the remedy sought by ancient alchemists to cure all diseases. But if we go back to Greek mythology, Panacea was a minor goddess, daughter of Asclepius (god of medicine). Along with her sisters Yaso (healing), Hygieia, Egle and Access, helped his father to heal and do drugs, being Panacea representation of universal healing through plants. He also had four brothers men, two of them Podalirius and Machaon.
Today we can find also the word Panacea in Hippocratic Oath, a document closely related to the world of medicine and was written by Hippocrates , meditate and priest, in the year 460 BC C. This text is a statement by establishing the obligations of the sick and the rights of these. Although today there are still professional before starting to practice medicine made this oath in most cases has been replaced by other existing texts, such as 1948 Geneva Declaration .
Searching for the Panacea intended as an information space in terms of health, medicine and welfare. Surely here we discover the universal panacea , but being informed can we provide better quality of life.
trivagonistas Attention all trivago.es always use to look for accommodation cheapie and ask the views and travel photographs of the users of its network. is trivago.es nominated as the best site of 2009 in the travel section!
Last year we won, and trivago.es was chosen the best site in the travel section 2008 on the Internet as you left their vote. Surely we can win the title but we need your support. All you like trivago can vote right now . I only remember that it is necessary to validate the vote by e-mail, but does not count.
Thank you all, not only for voting, but by making trivago has become what it is in so few years.
The new contest sponsored by LateRooms to publicize the benefits of rural tourism in trivago.es .
The main prize is a week for two people in a rural house in Andalusia, Murcia and Valencia (flight included). The game is online until 30 November and those who want to participate to write a review on the website of trivago.es about any place they have visited one of these regions or any house in Spain.
To ensure complete neutrality in choosing the winner, the draw will be held among all participants based on the results of the National Lottery. The numbers will play each participant will be announced in the forum contest before the draw.
Registration is completely free to participate. The more opinions leave a participant numbers and therefore chances of winning will be.
prices fall in Spain and Europe, according to the THPI (trivago Hotel Price Index), published by the hotel price comparison www.trivago.es . In our country stand downs in Seville, Madrid and Barcelona. Still, the old city remains the most expensive in Spain, with 106 euros on average.
The average price of English accommodation stands at 84 euros, six fewer than last month, when it was 90 euros. Sevilla is a city that has one of the largest decreases. If in October the average was 102 euros per night in double room, this month stands at 82 euros. The tone is repeated in the rest of the country. The Madrid hotels go from 113 to 97 euros on average, and hotels in Barcelona 125 to 106 euros.
do not even get rid cities remain above the hundred dollars and being the highest in the country. In addition to the aforementioned Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSan Sebastian moves from 119 to 103 euros, and Palma de Mallorca , from 111 to 102 euros. At the other extreme, the cheapest are Santiago de Compostela , with an average of 64 euros, Zaragoza, 67 euros, León and Granada , both with 68 euros. Queue cities also recorded significant price declines.
Only three of the twenty English cities analyzed increases prices even more than discrete. Murcia housings spend 70 euros last month to 73 euros this month, Valencia, from 85 to 86 euros, and Las Palmas, 90 to 91 euros.
Only Portugal and Eastern European countries keep prices lower than Spain
Most European countries than the English average even though prices have fallen in all countries except Norway and Finland. Only six countries fall below Spain: Romania (82 euros), Bulgaria (75 euros), Portugal (75 euros), Czech Republic (72 euros), Hungary (71 euros) and Poland (65 euros), has the lowest rates on the continent. Krakow is precisely the city with the lowest rate, 59 euros on average.
At the other extreme, Norway, the country with the highest rates in the continent, almost doubled in Spain with 165 euros on average. Switzerland followed (149 euros) and Denmark (145 euros). The most expensive cities are Geneva (191 euros) and Oslo (174 euros).
Lower rates compared with November last year
With regard to 2008, prices also fall by almost all major cities of Europe. The most prominent are those of Bucharest and Krakow, which fell by 26%. Madrid is also among the strongest falls to 20%, as Amsterdam, falling by 19%. Paris keeps the rate recorded a decline of 2% minimum. Table
Now you can customize your facebook address is super easy, simply enter this address http://www.facebook.com/username/ There show them a picture like this ... There choose any direction they all display the page. or put the one you want and see if available. It would be good so as soon as possible, as this became operational on Saturday and may nick or name is still available.
If you created a page after May 31 or a profile this week, you can not choose a user name immediately, "wrote Blaise DiPersia, Facebook. (But I think it is true that the Christian account we created Zone http://www .facebook.com / zonadecristianos this month and if you could make the change).
After a long time Christian Area now has its own online radio, exclusive programming will soon have the best music ... Stay tuned to this blog or to the ZOC for programming that will soon be listed, while they can enjoy the music ...
As you all know we have a winner in Rural Adventure, the game sponsored by LateRooms we had found in trivago throughout the month of March. This is nothing more and nothing less than Yorch84 and has kindly let us have a word for the blog:
Hi everyone!
I will tell you a little of my experience in this contest Cottages inside Spain.
I was encouraged to participate more than anything because it was a unique opportunity to win a week rural house in Spain that I chose. I wrote on the forum have a question when they could enjoy the prize, and the answer that was a question of availability of space in houses, I decided to compete even more. So I put the batteries and started to say.
I thought it was a game quite participatory and very competitive as well, that of seeing your name disappeared from the table was not tasteful dish. Day 31, the last day that already was a war of opinions, where everyone wanted to appear, especially in the province of Castilla Leon, chaos often! Until the last minute was a real battle.
Since I first went to a house, I have to say that tourism in rural houses I like. The more rustic the better are those that are in the mountains far from the city are the best, fresh air for your lungs.
I've always been responsible in my crew search houses for weekend breaks loose or long bridges and all have been magnificent, except one of the province of Navarra ...
As I said in the forum, I have already chosen my traveling companion, my girlfriend of course. Between the two, since yesterday we learned that he had been the winner of the contest has not given us time to see many houses, but we liked a particular in the province of Avila, I do not know if the end is our final decision. We plan to go in July and we are making the first plans to see the city of Avila and Segovia province to which we intended to go this Easter and we could not because they are all full hotels.
I'm sure we'll be fun and we're going to enjoy it big this week, some holidays are great. I'll try to see photos, many sites to explain my experience through Trivago.
LateRooms sponsoring a new contest trivago. Although more than competition, is a mega competition, since he will have several stages where be given away several trips of seven days for two people in rural houses in Spain , including expenses for Carrying Comfort. The theme of the contest are cottages and rural tourism as LateRooms offers a wide range of houses can also be found through trivago. Those who wish to participate in Adventure Rural only have to give an opinion on a house in Spain or on tourist attractions of different regions. The first stage of the competition just got up and the deadline to participate is open until March 31.
Throughout the month, will be announced in the news a "rural council" on a rural home. of Spain. The trip winner may choose one of them all to spend seven days consisting of the award. Prizes will be awarded based on the results of the National Lottery among all qualifiers, which guarantees neutrality in the selection of winners. The first will be decided by the National Lottery April 2, 2009. The official website of the contest is explained in more detail as part: http://www.trivago.es/static.php?&sid=2007 Here are the contest rules: http://www.trivago.es/static.php?&sid=2008
As you probably already know, we conducting a contest with a fabulous prize. As we help the winner, whoever he may be, the opinion of this week is about the Lanzarote Airport. The first thing you will tread upon reaching the island. The companion has left chatgirl Neustr and you can read the opinion clicking here.
You know that the prize is a trip 7 days for two people with flight included, car hire and entry to all museums . To participate you can see the panel instructions and classifieds. You still have until 26 to do so.
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