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Gmail – [Ruben Roa] Enlaces rotos detectados – ruben.roa@gmail.com


Gmail – [Ruben Roa] Enlaces rotos detectados – ruben.roa@gmail.com.

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McMaster University Partners with Doctor Evidence to Launch an Integrated Evidence Grading Solution


McMaster University and Doctor Evidence have collaborated on a joint product that constitutes a powerful standardized method for evaluating clinical evidence for life science and payer organizations. Collaboration between McMasters University and Doctor Evidence will yield a technology-enabled approach to … Continue reading

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Global storage conditions for medicines (9)


Image via Wikipedia Global storage conditions for medicines (9)———————————————— The question of storage instructions is a question of money, it is a question of harmonisation, and it is a question of communication. When global manufacturers send packages labelled with storage … Continue reading

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Drugs: Free Trade Agreement that would prove harmful to access to medicines


Image by Getty Images via @daylife Source: List E-Drugs                                En Castellano Dr Unni Karunakara, International President of Medecins Sans Frontieres,has written an open letter to Indian … Continue reading

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Difference in clinical trials according to funding source


Image via Wikipedia Difference in clinical trials according to funding source An interesting article appears  in JAMA, and shows how the source funding of clinical trials on cardiovascular differs between those entities that are funded by non-profit from those so. It took … Continue reading

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Metablogs……….readers


Image via CrunchBaseEl tiempo corre mas veloz que lo que quisieramos, no todo lo que esta disponible en la web es posible de leer, mucho tiempo atras, propusimos la creacion de un metablog, con los mejores posts que tuvieramos del … Continue reading

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Cancer de tiroides y melanomas: sobrediagnostico


Image via Wikipedia De Juan Gervas, tomado de la lista de disease mongering:-esto de las epidemias de sobrevivientes de cáncer es una cosa llamativa-nada como lo de Cristina Fernández (presidente de Argentina) que no tiene cáncer de tiroides…¡ni tiroides tras … Continue reading

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Modelos de riesgo cardiovascular. Estudio de Framingham. Proyecto SCORE.


Image via Wikipedia Los datos no tienen significado por sí mismos, sino en relación a un modelo conceptual del fenómeno que los produce. Las manzanas venían cayéndose de los árboles mucho antes de que Newton estableciese las ecuaciones del movimiento … Continue reading

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Medical Device Innovation — Is “Better” Good Enough?


Image via Wikipedia Source: NEJMLast year, the United States spent $95 billion on medical devices, nearly half of the $200 billion spent on devices worldwide.1 Our investment in devices has yielded impressive gains in length and quality of life from … Continue reading

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Estimating treatment effects for individual patients based on the results of randomised clinical trials


BMJ 2011; 343:d5888 doi: 10.1136/bmj.d5888 (Published 3 October 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011; 343:d5888 Research Estimating treatment effects for individual patients based on the results of randomised clinical trials OPEN ACCESS Johannes A N Dorresteijn, epidemiologist and medical doctor1, Frank L J Visseren, professor of vascular … Continue reading

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Defining Essential Health Benefits — The View from the IOM Committee


Source: NEJM When Congress enacted the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it mandated that a broad package of “essential health benefits” (EHBs) equivalent to that of a “typical employer plan” be offered by qualified health plans participating in newly created state-based … Continue reading

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Aprendimos algo de la gripe A ? O ya la olvidamos…….


Juan Gérvas recordandonos una pandemia de lucro y pánico. En noviembre pasado (2010) hubo unas jornadas en Oviedo (Ciencia y Márketing) y alli Juán Gérvas da esta conferencia titulada “La epidemia del pánico”. Básicamente la razón de esta conferencia, es … Continue reading

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World disaster report 2011


World Disasters Report 2011http://es.scribd.com/embeds/65875175/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-16cplqrcyl9mzj7raj9y(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://es.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); Related articles The deadliest disasters of the 21st century – get the data (guardian.co.uk) Are … Continue reading

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The Good Drug Guide : new mood-brighteners and antidepressants


Image via WikipediaSource: http://www.biopsychiatry.com/ The Good Drug Guide : new mood-brighteners and antidepressants: ‘via Blog this’ Could we live happily ever after? Perhaps. One’s interest in the genetically pre-programmed states of sublimity sketched in The Hedonistic Imperative is tempered by the knowledge that one is unlikely … Continue reading

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Prevention Program and costs


Image via Wikipedia Population-wide cardiovascular prevention programs likely to reduce costs August 13, 2011 ST LOUIS (MD Consult) – Any intervention producing even a small reduction in any cardiovascular risk factor is likely to produce a net cost saving on … Continue reading

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Merck Loses Ruling In Overtime Pay LawsuitPost title


Source: Pharmalot, by Ed Silverman In yet another victory for sales reps seeking overtime pay, a federal judge has ruled that the administrative exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act does not apply to Schering-Plough reps. The ruling, though, is not … Continue reading

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No hay átomos de la paz


Image via WikipediaEra la mañana de un día normal, en un imperio que estaba en guerra. Por las calles la gente se apuraba a ir a sus trabajos, los niños a las escuelas, como cada mañana, en cada ciudad que … Continue reading

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Criterios Diagnóstico McDonald para Esclerosis Múltiple


Criterios Diagnóstico McDonald para Esclerosis Múltiple (EM) Qué es un ataque? Trastorno neurológico compatible con EM Reporte subjetivo u observación objetiva Duración mínima de 24 horas Excluidos pseudoataques, episodios paroxísticos simples Determinando el tiempo entre ataques 30 días entre el comienzo del evento 1 y el comienzo del evento 2 … Continue reading

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NCCN Still Recommends Avastin For Breast Cancer


By Ed Silverman from Pharmalot In a move that has been eagerly anticipated, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a non-profit group of oncologists whose guidance is closely followed by leading treatment centers, has voted overwhelmingly in favor of maintaining its recommendation that … Continue reading

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Impact of maternal immunization on influenza hospitalizations in infants.


Image via Wikipedia http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21492825 Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Jun;204(6 Suppl 1):S141-8. Epub 2011 Feb 23. Impact of maternal immunization on influenza hospitalizations in infants. Poehling KA, Szilagyi PG, Staat MA, Snively BM, Payne DC, Bridges CB, Chu SY, Light LS, Prill MM, Finelli L, Griffin MR,Edwards KM; New Vaccine Surveillance Network. … Continue reading

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Risk of Incident Diabetes With Intensive-Dose Compared With Moderate-Dose Statin Therapy


Clinical Review CLINICIAN’S CORNER JAMA. 2011;305(24):            2556-2564      . doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.860 Risk of Incident Diabetes With Intensive-Dose Compared With Moderate-Dose Statin Therapy A Meta-analysis David Preiss, MRCP;  Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai, MD;  Paul Welsh, PhD;  Sabina A. Murphy, MPH;  Jennifer E. Ho, MD;  David D. Waters, … Continue reading

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Juan Lopez y John Ward


Para los que no volvieron, para los chicos de La Plata, Resistencia y Monte Caseros. Para que se sepa que desde Marzo de 2004 han muerto por suicidio más “infantes” que los que mató esa guerra.   Ninguna guerra es justa, … Continue reading

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Obama Threatens to Cut Off Low Income Healthcare Funds to Indiana if They Defund Planned Parenthood


Last month Indiana voted to defund Planned Parenthood and the Obama administration is not taking kindly that choice. The AP is reporting that the Obama administration may withhold up to $4.3 billion in Medicaid funding for low income healthcare from Indiana if they … Continue reading

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Ronald McDonald acosado


Image by tankgrrl via Flickr 550 organizaciones de salud exigen a McDonald’s el fin de la Cajita Feliz Viernes 20 de Mayo de 2011 19:30:44 | Las organizaciones han publicado en seis periódicos en todo el país la carta en … Continue reading

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Bill Laden is death


  Osama bin Laden, 1957-2011 The Most Wanted Face of Terrorism By KATE ZERNIKE and MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN With the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden was elevated to the realm of evil in the American imagination once … Continue reading

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SAPU Dr. Juan Solorzano: He dejado de hacer turnos de urgencia


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Epidemiología de los factores de riesgo cardiovascular en el mundo


Image via Wikipedia Sobrepeso y obesidad Finucane MM, Stevens GA, Cowan MJ, Danaei G, Lin JK, Paciorek CJ et al on behalf of the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group (Body Mass Index). National, regional, … Continue reading

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Guia Clinica: Gastritis Cronica


Image via Wikipedia ¿Qué es el Helicobacter Pylori (HP)?Es un bacilo gram negativo cuya infección se adquiere habitualmente en la infancia y que puede causar gastritis crónica y ulcera péptica 1. También parece ser un factor de riesgo de cáncer … Continue reading

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Alcohol More Harmful Than Crack or Heroin


Image via Wikipedia Alcohol abuse is more harmful than crack or heroin abuse, according to a new study by a former British government drug advisor and other experts.Neuropharmacologist David Nutt, MD, of Imperial College London, and colleagues rated 20 different … Continue reading

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