DyNeMo: Test for personalized treatment of breast cancer, predicting the success of recovery

October 8th, 2008

Based on an analysis of proteins through both of the women who have survived a cancer of the breast and eventually died, the Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto have seen them in the organization of the tumor cells is different, a fact that has led them to develop a test called Dynemo associated with this type of cancer.

So Dynemo that this tool has been tested on 350 patients and is due to receive financial support from one laboratory to the market can be a breakthrough for this type of cancer as it would know the options that women have sick , to reach finally recovered with a 80% reliability.

Another of the applications that researchers have found apart from the above and would fight more effectively against breast cancer can save more lives, as this would allow for a test and a personalized treatment for each patient about which drugs are more convenient to use or if they need the use of chemotherapy … ..

After a heart attack playing sports is good but not good to quit

September 21st, 2008
year-to-positive-then-attack-of-cardiacoSegún a study by a group of Swiss researchers and published this week in the journal Circulation, exercise after a heart attack is very good for recovery, but the positive effects disappear when failing to perform physical exercises. Valmont Genolier clinic Montreux-led the study.

The study showed that patients who performed exercises after a heart attack experienced an improvement in their blood vessels four weeks to begin exercising, but once you stop doing the exercise, namely a month after the positive effects disappear so it is recommended to maintain a routine of physical exercises on an ongoing basis.

209 patients were investigated in this study demonstrated the positive effects of physical activity, unchanged by the type of exercise performed.

Heart diseases are the leading cause of death in the world and is due to an obstruction of arteries and other blood vessels by fat accumulation.

The consumption of red or processed meats increases the risk of damaging our health

August 13th, 2008
Has always had the perception that the intake of meat at the expense of a diet where vegetables and fruits prevail is more harmful to our health, having a latest survey by the National Cancer Institute of the United States which confirms these theories.

Well with the data of some 500,000 people aged between 50 and 71 years and over a period of more than 10 years, researchers have found that eating red meat or processed meat is bad for our health because it increases the risk of death either because of problems involving the heart or the risk of developing any cancer.

And the fact is that reducing the consumption of meat is a rich source of saturated fats to help reduce low levels between 11% and 16% deaths in men and women respectively and should preferably consume as meat researchers opt for the so-called white meats are those that present less risk to our health.

Justice requires a prepaid to cover the cost of two boys disabled

July 9th, 2008

It is so they can attend a private school. The parents argued that public schools are not prepared Escobar from the architectural point of view. Teenagers of 12 and 14 years, moving in a wheelchair for a disease that weakens the muscles.

A company must be prepaid medical charges for the cats that demands the education of two brothers with disabilities in a private school in the town of Escobar. So the judge ordered in civil and commercial Luis Maria Marquez after an amparo filed by the parents of minors.

Judicial sources said the decision was taken against the official opinion of the advocate of children, who considered it an “absurd” to bind the pre-offer private education because of “reasons building” in public.

Parents of boys of 14 and 12 years, argued that public schools in the area where they live are not prepared from the architectural point of view. So called OSDE cover 100 percent of costs in a private institution.

Teenagers suffering from motor disability with a diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disease that quickly leads to the weakening of the legs and pelvis.

The judge found that he was involved not only the right to health, but also to education, “fundamental to enable adults and children equal opportunities to develop and participate actively in their communities.”

The judge further recalled that, under existing law, companies of prepaid medicine “have been matched as to their obligations benefits with other social work, it can not ignore its social responsibilities as arbitrarily or unilaterally. ”

Clarin

Source: Telam

Justice requires to cover a Work-assisted fertilization treatment.

June 22nd, 2008

A benefit which is not included in the Compulsory Medical Plan
The social work of the Buenos Aires municipal employees should pay for the treatment of

Ayuso-Liguori Marriage achieved a response porteña justice after a year of struggle to become parents. The House on Administrative Disputes of Tax and Capital Projects provided that the City of Buenos Aires will pay an in vitro fertilization treatment, despite the fact that this practice is not included within the Compulsory Medical Plan benefits which should cover business prepaid medical and welfare services.

The second instance of failure of justice portena opens the way for similar presentations of Public employees of the city. In the civil justice system does not there is a bug chamber similar to compel others to perform these social practices.

“We are pleased with the good news because it was finally recognized our right to health. This is a problem for which medicine has a solution, with scientifically proven techniques and treatments. The only obstacle is that no social security cover, “said Marcelo Ayuso after learning the court decision (see separate article).

The ruling was signed by the comrades Nélida Daniele Russo and Eduardo, for most, while his colleague Stephen Centanaro voted in dissent.

The judges upheld the ruling of first instance Judge Patricia Lopez Vergara and understood that what is at issue is the right to health, which is undermined by the inability to fertilize. “The inability to procreate is a defect that can affect real and effective quality of life, and that reproductive health involves the psychological health of both spouses, as well as their right to procreate,” said the judges, and mentioned that this concept is consistent with promoting the World Health Organization.

In addition, the law of the city is promoting maternal responsibility, and therefore can not believe that reproductive rights are applicable only to those able to procreate.

Echoed by the judges to say that the Compulsory Medical Plan does not mention this feature and nor do the laws of social work, pre-medicine and the national health system, and there are no rules in Argentina covering the topic, despite the number of bills awaiting review in both houses of Congress.

The court stated that the source of protection of the health status of women are human rights that are implicit in his person. The only limitation would have the treatment, he explained, is that their cost will affect the right of the rest of the membership of the social work.

In dissent

The judge Centanaro, for his part in voting in the minority, opposed to the social work covering the treatment of assisted fertilization, as understood that the coverage is not included within the Compulsory Medical Plan, which is not the appeal the way to resolve the issue, and argued that there is insufficient evidence to support the indication of treatment demanded by the marriage. The judge did not dispute that the right to health is constitutional and that infertility is an issue that affects, but it does not follow that the social work be in charge of processing requests.

Centanaro stressed that it is necessary to assess the economic impact that this decision could have on the financing of the health system.

Also, understand that this move implies that it has no powers on the court but the legislature must develop the standard. This would move further on the division of powers, he said.

The issue of whether or not infertility is a disease is the product of debate medical, legal and parliamentary. Advanced fertilization treatments are not included in the Compulsory Medical Plan and the majority of social work and does not cover prepaid. Your cost may vary between 7000 and 14,000 pesos.

It is estimated that every year are born in the country between 1500 and 3000 kids through the various techniques of assisted fertilization.

Here, for 21 years, there is a legal vacuum in this respect, and with costs that have fertility treatment are reserved for a wealthy class. According to experts from institutes of fertilization, more than 50 percent of patients who need it can not afford the high costs for their practices.

By Hernan Cappiello
From the editors of La Nacion