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If the disease spreads rapidly, Ho Chi Minh City could take up to 2 million infected people, which would require 20 million tablets of Tamiflu. One scenario put forward during the meeting pre-July 28 Municipal Monitoring Committee…

In the metropolis of the South, health services, which record 13,000 tablets of Tamiflu, claiming 30,000 more tablets. They also request the municipality to provide funds to purchase Relenza, a product of British company Glaxo Smith Kline, very effective against the H5N1 avian influenza. The Swiss company Roche, which has a representative office in Vietnam, has the exclusive production of this drug. In the country, Tamiflu is distributed by the company Diethelm Vietnam.

Department of Pharmaceutical Management of Vietnam, Truong Quoc Cuong. If the country is experiencing a pandemic, these three labs will be allowed to import raw materials from Roche to produce in the country of tablets. Read the rest of this entry »

It will be further exacerbated by the contempt for government personnel, for example when one thinks that nothing is intended to provide free masks home help, accompanying thousands of elderly or undermined. Or that Tamiflu will be refunded only, not free, for those who need it!.

If only decreases by 30% the number of patients each year, seasonal flu vaccine reduces complications by 50% and 80% mortality. For one billion euros, the French government has purchased 90 million doses of the future vaccine, which corresponds to two injections of 45 million people. A vaccine that will surely happen too late for the first peak, but the influenza pandemic still hitting twice. Since 2005 with the avian influenza, a pandemic is expected. Read the rest of this entry »

All restaurants in Mexico were ordered Tuesday to serve no more than take away, to prevent possible spread of swine flu among customers gathered in schools, said the municipal manager of security, Jose Angel Avila…

Scandal in the medical world Italian. Some doctors from a clinic in Milan multiplied unnecessary intervention by simple greed. This has ranged from blation breast for a simple knot, or a half-pleural lung.

In total, 14 people were prosecuted in this case: 13 physicians which is added the owner of the establishment, a lawyer of 75 years, Francesco Paolo Pipitone. All the doctors in question have been suspended by their order on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

So far, it was assumed that the brilliant pianist, born in 1810 near Warsaw, died of tuberculosis in Paris in 1849. But renowned Polish scientists now believe he died of cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that seriously affects the lungs. And they want to prove through DNA analysis of his heart…

Gregory Lemarchal, young singer revealed by Star Academy, died in 2007 as a result of cystic fibrosis. A posthumous album, containing several unreleased tracks, is planned for November 16. Nikos Aliagias, who was a close friend of Gregory Lemarchal supports this initiative. Sales of this CD will be in effect entirely to the benefit of the association Gregory Lemarchal, who fight against cystic fibrosis. All profits will go to the association of Gregory, ensures indeed Nikos Aliagas. It must be the difference between the family of Gregory and the Michael Jackson! His family is in altruism. Gregory wanted the fight continues after his death. His wish was that talking about this damn disease, cystic fibrosis and that helps families. A clear answer to those who accused the singer’s family from falling into commercialism. This album, entitled Dreams, is a best-of containing two unreleased. One of them, I dream, is currently in radio and dissemination should be released in coming days. Read the rest of this entry »

LONDON – Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic ocean liner, died early Sunday morning in his sleep at the age of 97 years, said the Titanic International Society (TIS), 98 years day for days after the launching of the ship…

Millvina Dean was just over two months when Titanic struck an iceberg four days after leaving Southampton on the night of April 14, 1912, before falling in just two hours and forty minutes in the frigid waters of North Atlantic: 1517 people then lose their lives, including his father. Millvina was down on one of the few lifeboats present, wrapped in a bag and thus part of the 706 survivors, mostly women and children.

The last survivor of the most famous shipwrecks lived in a retirement home in Southampton, southern England, from where his family had tried to immigrate to America by embarking on the maiden voyage made by the Titanic. His brother two years, Bertram, and her mother, Deanna, had also been saved thanks to the presence of mind and speed of their father, who has managed to leave the area of third-class passengers, where they were. Read the rest of this entry »

In a vote held Monday evening, the House of Commons (lower house) has an overwhelming majority rejected an amendment prohibiting the creation of hybrid embryos, thus removing the last obstacle to their legalization. The measure is the first part of a controversial Bill on embryology and fertilization in which the hearing should continue until Tuesday. The hybrid embryos are reserved for exclusively scientific. They must be destroyed no later than after 14 days of development and it is forbidden to implant in the uterus of a woman…

The Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose youngest son under two years suffering from cystic fibrosis, had seconded the text. Cystic fibrosis is one of congenital diseases that could benefit from therapeutic cloning, a procedure facilitated by the use of hybrid embryos. The Catholic Church and conservative opposition MPs complained that a cleric calls for experiments in Frankenstein. The deputies are not required by the discipline of their party on such sensitive topics and several Catholic ministers voted against the measure. Read the rest of this entry »