Health Protection

The Canadian and American scientists have identified a protein that fights immunodeficiency, a protein that is present in the DNA of some people who would be immunized against diseases such as HIV infection. They published their findings in the online edition of Nature Medicine. In this report, they talk about how a protein FOX03 protects against virus attacks, noting in passing how this discovery will contribute to the development of a vaccine against HIV / AIDS. To understand what it is, you should be aware that in some rare, people with HIV are resistant to HIV without treatment, and thus does not develop the disease. These are called the "elite controllers." And it is this ability that the US-Canadian researchers have put on the alert. By comparing three groups of men, one HIV-negative, the second infected and treated with triple therapy, and the last one HIV-positive but not developing any symptoms of the disease, that scientists have uncovered the famous protective protein. They, in fact, found that the latter group of people resisting the infection without treatment because their immune system, which would normally have been attacked by HIV, retained his memory immune resilient through the regulation of FOX03a protein. Can we speak then treatment or a vaccine for HIV? It is still too early, but it is a great step forward in the history of mèdecine. For this research, in addition to being promising for the healing of HIV AIDS, they will be useful for understanding other diseases that attack the immune system. "The discovery of the protein FOX03a will allow scientists to develop therapies adapted to other viral diseases that weaken the immune system, such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis C, as observed in discharges organ transplantation or transplantation of bone marrow. "Said Dr. Sékaly, a professor at the Hospital and the University of Montreal, director of the research unit in human immunology, Inserm laboratory in Montreal. Ladies and expensive meltynautes, always be vigilant, do you always carry condoms when sex. And if you have a report that would be protected only once, and that you are unsure of your partner do not hesitate to call the numbers involved!! This is your health!

Emergency care and Alzheimer's disease."

The Plan 2008-2012 Alzheimer entered into force in early January will implement in the coming days "card emergency care and Alzheimer's disease." Published in 15,000 copies, "Card care and urgency of Alzheimer's disease aims to improve coordination of care and treatment of patients. Indeed, more than 15% of people suffering from the disease consult emergency hospital because of complications or worsening of their state of health. Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by memory disorders, language, orientation and other functions affecting the autonomy of the individual. The problem is that patients are unaware that they are suffering from the disease. Thus, the card, personal and confidential, will be offered to the person with Alzheimer's by the treating physician (general practitioner, neurologist, geriatrician,…) at the announcement of the diagnosis or being followed. Advice issued charged Patients may present to health professionals in the event of emergency care or not programmed (consultation, hospitalization, anesthesia,…). It has two components care. One is for health workers where the words coordinates patient, the person of trust, the primary caregiver and health professionals who coordinate the care. The other is for patients and families and gives practical advice for avoiding or dealing with emergencies. Affected individuals will be what to do in case of general anesthesia, pain, drowsiness or behavioural disorders.

prevents the virus to self-assemble into the infected cell

On, it prevents the virus to self-assemble into the infected cell. Deactivated, it makes the cell insensitive to the action of interferon, antivirus natural product by our organization. With this discovery, a door opens onto a new path therapeutic, but a decade or two of research is still needed ... Called TRIM22 (Tripartite ground-containing 22), this gene encodes a protein localized in the cytoplasm of human cells. According to Stephen Barr and his team at the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Alberta, it is activated prevents the assembly of the AIDS virus in human cells, thus blocking infection at this stage. These results have just been published in the journal PLoS Pathogens. To confirm the function of this gene, researchers have inactivated the expression. The modified cells and no longer meet interferon, the protein produced by the body to fight the virus. "This means that the gene TRIM22 is an essential part of our immune defense. These results are exciting because they show that our body has a gene capable of stopping the spread of HIV, "says Stephen Barr. This gene is activated not only in individuals infected with HIV, and the team is trying to find out why. It might be possible to force the activation of TRIM22. It also wants to explore the interaction between TRIM22 and interferon, for a better understanding, which would perhaps make the cells the ability to respond to interferon signal, even without TRIM22. Other avenues to explore therapeutic The main difficulty in the fight against AIDS is the ability of the virus to mutate, and thus to escape the treatment. Although highly effective antiviral drugs have been developed since the 1990's and continue to be used, they do undermine the multiplication of the virus, not eradicate it. "The discovery of this gene, which is found in its native state in our cells could provide a therapeutic alternative route, which would involve the creation of new medicines, or even vaccines that would prevent HIV transmission between humans as well as its expansion in the body, thus blocking the onset of AIDS, "said Stephen Barr, who feels, however, that 15 to 20 years of research will be needed before a vaccine final, provided that the funding follow . But AIDS is not the only target of the research team, which also investigates TRIM22's ability to fight other types of viruses.

Increase or decrease breast, rehabilitation of the eyelids, abdominoplasty

In 2007, according to the Groupement American Plastic Surgery , surgery and other cosmetic changes have proliferated in the United States. An increase of 8% more than in 2006 and 457% in ten years! Side interventions light, Botox injections, anti-wrinkle product, were in the spotlight. Côté surgery, liposuction remains at the top! Then jumble the increase or decrease breast, rehabilitation of the eyelids, abdominoplasty, laser hair removal ... And it is the buttock augmentation that has experienced the strongest growth among American women! Hopefully this new trend no one launches a new trend in French.

Medicine, surgery and obstetrics

One hundred clinical managers demonstrated outside the entrance to the health ministry in Paris, Tuesday, March 4, braving the wind and rain for two hours. At the invitation of the Federation of Private Hospitals , the industry-The MCO (medicine, surgery and obstetrics), but also of the National Union of private psychiatric hospitals (UNCPSY), all these bosses' private institution argued their refusal to become the adjustment variable deficit of the health insurance. "With 0.5% increase, medicine, surgery and obstetrics is it impossible to balance its budget," says Marc Boucher, CEO of a group of six facilities (250 beds) in Aquitaine. Around his neck, a lifeline yellow indicates "clinic ready to plunge." "Calculated THAN JUST" Marie-Paule Gaillard, director of clinical Seine-et-Marne, said she, "for the third consecutive year, the increase is less than allowed inflation: in 2007, it was found to 1.26% when the charges increased by 5%. " The director of a 200-bed clinic in Paris says she will lose 0.8% on all fares once it has integrated the 0.5% increase in authorized by the Ministry of Health: "I Lost 200000 euros in 2007. " Until now, clinics brought the patient to pay a portion of the bill. "It is paying special rooms, on the margins on subscriptions to Canal +, or on bottles of mineral water, but it's the grocery store," regrets a patron clinic. The game can continue even less that "mutual unwilling to reimburse the special rooms," says another. When asked whether this budget reduction is not intended to encourage clinics to increase productivity, they récrient: "Everything is calculated at the fair." And employees who have not been increased "over the past three years are beginning to let us know! We are all on the verge of a social conflict". Jacques Gayral, president of the UNCPSY, says that in mental health, "productivity gains, it makes no sense." "Psychiatry is the human work: when you double the number of patients, we need to double the staff, he adds. There are no economies of scale." For these professionals is the ability to invest is threatened. This means the ability to offer patients a medicine quality. Olivier Toma, president of the MCO-was received Tuesday at the Elysée. He hoped that the president will be more attentive to their demands that the Ministry of Health.

The deep brain stimulation

The deep brain stimulation, technique used against Parkinson's disease and psychiatric disorders, will be improved through an atlas of the brain in three dimensions. The brain, "it does wears that if not in use, the opposite of batteries," said Dr. Stephen Hirsch, president of the Scientific Council of the Federation for brain research (FRC), on the occasion of the new campaign to call for donations (Neurodon) from 10 to 16 March. Extremely plastic, with an incredibly complex network of one hundred billion neurons, it evolves continuously from birth to death to adapt to our environment and experiences everyone: if 10% of connections interneuronales exist at birth The remaining 90% derived from influences encountered throughout our lives. This remarkable plasticity also allows partially compensate for the effects of an injury. The FRC has chosen this year to focus on deep brain stimulation, why the French are the undisputed leader. Developed in the late 1990's by a French team, one of Professor Alim Louis Benabid and Professor Polak in Grenoble, this technique has completely transformed the care of certain patients with Parkinson's disease. With today an extension measured application of this technique to some obsessive-compulsive disorder and some tics (disease Gilles de la Tourette), as well as in the field of neurosurgery. It is an electrical stimulation "high-frequency" issued with very thin electrodes that will cross a part of the brain (without harm) to reach deep cerebral areas. It has helped, in a small number of Parkinson's patients properly selected, deleted or rigidity quake. Google Earth "brain" We must, for that stimulation to be effective, and without side effects, specifically targeting the very tiny area, the subthalamic nucleus (ten millimetres long, five wide and three thick). Hence the importance of having maps of the utmost precision nerve centres. Neurodon helping, the Federation has funded the work of a team of the INSERM led by Dr. Jerome Yelnik, research director at the Salpêtrière. His team (in partnership with the CNRS and INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), has succeeded in creating a map of the brain in three dimensions, making it possible to reconstruct the structuretridimensionnelle "hubs of the brain ". Some tools have been developed to automatically adapt to the specific dimensions of the brain of each patient. Through this "brain Google Earth, it is now possible to zoom in and know with the utmost precision when implanted electrodes," says Dr. Hirsch. Thanks to the 1.8 million euro gift of the 2007 campaign, the FRC has been able to offer financial assistance to 25 projects of researchers. "But if the French are particularly interested in the progress of brain research, only a third of them felt sufficiently informed in this area," wishes to emphasize.

KAOLACK - Crisis in hospital Ibrahima Niasse

The director makes the apron Are we near the end of the crisis at the hospital Ibrahima Niasse Kaolack past several weeks? Let's hope so. Especially as workers in the hospital who are in a strike for some time, have finally won the case. The director of the hospital, Michel Thiakane Ambroise, which they demanded the departure finally decided to make the deck this morning. The director of the hospital El Hadji Ibrahim Niasse Kaolack is, in fact, came to Dakar to submit his letter of resignation on the desk of the Minister of Health. A letter received by the Director of Office of the Minister of Health, in the absence of the Minister of Health, Safiétou Thiam. Speaking to the press, the now ex-director of the hospital hadji El Ibrahima Kaolack Niasse said he resigned of his own volition and without coercion. According to him, it is a way to avoid paralysing the system. For its part, the Director of Office of the Minister of Health stated that the competent authorities were in contact with the workers of the hospital in Kaolack. But, he stressed, this problem is not unique to the hospital hadji El Ibrahima Niasse. Still, the crisis at the hospital in Kaolack reached its climax when people Kaolack came before yesterday, break the doors of the morgue to retrieve their dead. The images broadcast on private television Walf Tv had, indeed, shocked many.

OUR SPECIAL ENVOY TO KAMPALA.

OUR SPECIAL ENVOY TO KAMPALA. The good news from Africa are rare. All the more reason to salute the countries that fight against a scourge that is ravaging the continent: infectious diseases. Uganda is one of those good students regularly put forward by western institutions. Since the mid-1990's, a country of nearly 30 million people embarked on prevention and access to care for patients suffering from HIV AIDS. Within a decade, the prevalence rate has increased from 15% of the adult population to 6.6% today, according to UNAIDS. Approximately 110,000 patients are currently receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) and the government boasts to bear half of the patients (1). The official figure is to be taken with caution. It should be brought up another: "one million AIDS orphans currently indicated. At the summit in Abuja in 2001, African countries pledged to spend 15% of their national budgets to health. For the moment we are not there. While among the leaders, Uganda spends only 7% of its budget to this position, half of which comes from external donors. "A quarter of the state's resources goes to the military and there is a lot of corruption," regrets an official doctor at the Ministry of Health in Kampala. Neighbours unpredictable It is true that the country is bordered by neighbours remuants and unpredictable. In northern Sudan, in the western Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda to the south and east Kenya. Recently Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have announced a cooperation agreement copy. But it is neither health nor education. It seeks to protect mountain gorillas threatened with extinction. On the health front, the landscape is quite different. With a per capita income of $ 1,100 per year, Uganda is one of the poorest countries in the world. Approximately 40% of the people are content with less than $ 2 per day. The result, the living conditions in the suburbs of Kampala are an affront to human dignity. As often happens in Africa, the economic challenge is coupled with a heavy geographical constraint: 80% of Ugandans live in rural areas with very limited infrastructure. The Taso (The AIDS Support Organization) is one of the oldest African institutions to aid the sick. Established in 1987, the center has an annual budget of about $ 15 million provided solely by external donors. He receives about thirty patients a day in conditions of caring and listening. A contribution of about half a dollar is requested to patients. This practice designed to empower patients is actually quite flexible. "Many of our customers accumulate illness, money and food," says Harriet Mabonga, director of central Kampala. One of the big problems is the late detection of patients. "Some arrive with CD4 zero," says Harriet Mabonga. This extreme situation causes the appearance of a severe syndrome-specific sub-Saharan Africa: Iris (2). Similarly, the co-infection with TB affects between 40% and 50% of HIV-positive. The country is also a chronic shortage of health care personnel (doctors and nurses), which share much abroad (for better salaries) is siphonnée or by the organizations and Western institutions in the country. This situation leads to an interview without phone call from Jack Watters in charge of humanitarian programs at Pfizer. "There's a lot of money to treat AIDS in Africa, but there will never be enough. The next challenge will be to track all those who need to be put on treatment. These objectives can be achieved only through foreign investments. "A sign of the times, the American group was ready to transfer the production of a new drug (anti-CCR5) on concessional terms to developing countries. "We will start with trials of a microbicide (3)," says Jack Watters. Laboratory dilapidated The Institute of Infectious Diseases (IDI) plays the same role with different means. Despite a laboratory for analysis dilapidated, this structure treats more than 18,000 patients per year. Installed within the Faculty of Medicine at Makerere, he also tries to instill a spirit research in the country. In February, teams of researchers have presented several scientific papers at the Annual Meeting on AIDS, held in Boston (CROI). "We focus on clinical research and the topics that concern the African people," says Alex Coutinho, who heads the center. This doctor born Gao is a leading figure in the fight against HIV in Africa. "ARVs have given life to people. Today, they want to live a normal life and have children. "This year is expected to start manufacturing drugs in a factory near Kampala. Built with the help of Indian producer of generic Cipla, it will produce fixed-dose triple therapy (Triomune) and anti-malarials to national needs. It is even expected to export part of the production among neighbours in the Great Lakes region and mountain gorillas.

Las Vegas in the heart of a scandal

The clinic in Las Vegas in the heart of a scandal that will compel health 40,000 people to be screened for Hepatitis and AIDS was closed by the mayor of the great city of Nevada (west ), it was learned Sunday from the municipality. "The Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada has received notification of the suspension of his licence," said the mayor in a statement, recalling that the practices of the institution were "well below the acceptable medical criteria." Thursday, Nevada authorities had invited some 40,000 people to be screened for hepatitis B, C and AIDS post on the day of "methods risk" of the Centre. According to the Department of Health of Nevada in the south, an investigation launched after the discovery of six cases of acute hepatitis among former patients of this institution, "highlighted the reuse of syringes" and "the use of individual doses of anaesthetic on several patients. " Meanwhile, the Attorney of the County of Clark, whose Las Vegas is the capital, said his office did not initiate criminal proceedings against those responsible for the clinic, particularly for negligence or endangering the lives of others. "This will not happen tomorrow or the day after, but we look carefully and diligently all the facts in this case," said David Roger, quoted by the television KLAS-TV. The chain has also said that four law firms had already started to collect the records of former patients of the centre, for what could become a complaint to the civil partnership ( "class action") on a massive scale. According to the health department, the methods "at risk" of the clinic were spread over nearly four years. This is especially hepatitis C, which might be transmitted by using the same syringes. But the administration has also called for "a screening of hepatitis B and HIV, because these two diseases can be transmitted via the same methods to injection (...) however, the risk of transmission of hepatitis B and HIV is lower, and no cases of hepatitis B or HIV has been identified, "she announced Thursday. The clinic had not explained how his staff had been able to use it, and for so long, methods, in violation of all rules of health and common sense. "We want to express our deep concern to many patients who have placed their trust in us for all these years (...) we have taken steps to ensure that (these) never happen again," declared representatives of establishment.

The difficulties in the health sector due to shortcomings in management

The challenges of the health sector in Morocco is most recorded by shortcomings in the management and by the volume of funds allocated to this sector, said the Minister of Health, Mrs Yasmina Baddou. In an interview + daily Al Ahdat Al Maghribia +, released Monday, Ms. Baddou said that the main difficulty lies in the management, noting that this problem has nothing to do with the department's budget which, according to the Minister, ' is not a low budget (8 billion DH) since coming in fourth place after those of the Ministries of Defence, Interior and National Education. After recalling the efforts of the Department of Health in recent years (the construction and equipping of new hospitals, rehabilitation of existing ones and adoption programs for combating and prevention of diseases), the minister spoke of the difficulties Moroccan citizen suffers as shown at the reception and medical care, equipment for emergency services and management of pharmaceuticals. Ms. Baddou also reflect the difficulty of the poor and especially of the rural population to have access to health care services, and the inequitable distribution of these services, both territorial and medical. Referring to the shortage of human resources in hospitals, the phenomena of corruption and absenteeism, the Minister said that these problems are caused by management style adopted in the health sector over the amount of loans granted or posts d employment available and that the ministry is able to transcend these problems and restore citizens' confidence in public medicine. Ms. Baddou recalled, in this regard, that the Department of Health has adopted a strategy 2008-2012, which aims to ensure equity in the provision of care between regions and between urban and rural areas and to facilitate the access to care for the poorest, particularly in rural areas. The strategy on the other hand to reduce the maternal mortality rate of 50 deaths per 100,000 and the infant mortality rate to 15 deaths per 1,000 in 2012, and to have a public health service and competitive performance ( hospitalisation rate at 5 pc of the population by 2012).

Lesions in the colon associated with an increased risk of cancer

Lesions flattened, apparently common in the colon and difficult to detect, allegedly linked to a greater risk of cancer of the large intestine that some polyps, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the AmericCancer (99%) Preventive medicine (99%) Medical personnel (75%) Journal of the American Medical Association (74%) an Medical Association

Efforts to prevent colon cancer, the second leading cause of death from cancer in the United States, focusing on the detection and removal of polyps during colonoscopy. But an analysis of data from 1819 patients in California revealed that there are nearly ten times more likely that these lesions plates contain cancer cells that polyps whatever their size. These lesions, when they form a depression on the membrane of the intestinal wall, even more difficult to detect during an examination, present the greatest risk (33%) to evolve into cancer. "Future studies of these lesions should better evaluate whether their diagnosis and ablation have an effect on the prevention and mortality from colorectal cancer," writes Dr. Roy Soetikno, the main sponsor of this research. In an editorial accompanying the study, Dr. David Lieberman, of the faculty of medicine in Oregon (Washington), notes that "these lesions or neoplasms probably appear to be more likely to contain cancer cells." And to the extent that they are difficult to detect, "it is very important that colonoscopies are made with the greatest attention," he says noting "we do not know with certainty that it is the most common method Efficient lead. " Studies have shown that 0.3 to 0.9% of those who had a colonoscopy and the removal of one or more polyps develop colon cancer a few years later. Some doctors believe that a large proportion of these cases could be explained by the non-detection of these lesions plates or by the fact that they have not been entirely removed.

Doctors under perfusion

Marketing, "doctors under perfusion" financial hole in the Safely ... UFC-Que Choisir (continued) Here is an article by Rouba Naaman, published on the site Novethic end of January. The author comments on the study and releases of "UFC-Que Choisir" and highlights interesting aspects of the study of the five classes of drugs whose prescriptions were reconsidered. The article also contains comments from some leaders of the consumer association, as well as some representatives of pharmaceutical companies and the union of these, LEEM. Ironically… To see the great solidarity between companies and doctors as soon as someone points a finger of blame… There are only innocents… Money invested in marketing, in continuing training and other combines to influence doctors form the vast majority of the costs of the pharmaceutical industry. All this at the expense of the search for truly innovative new medicines. But it is an investment firms and waiting, like any commercial enterprise, not just depreciation costs, but also the return on investment, maintaining profit margins and increasing unparalleled in other industries. And it's ironic because, after all, this financial effort, the communication department of LEEM washes his hands like Pontius Pilate and designate physicians as solely responsible for the waste… It is the one who decides who pays. But in cases of failure, it is neither seen nor experienced… Well, after all, the physicians who are buying need only invest a little of this money in a comprehensive insurance in the case - very little probable - where they ask each of the accounts, beyond general denunciation of a process that is a secret of Polichinelle. Dogs bark and the caravan moves… "The UFC accuses the pharmaceutical industry to influence doctors' "Issued on January 15, 2008, the new study of the French Union Consumer spending on drugs bothers the pharmaceutical companies. The UFC-Que Choisir argues that between 2002 and 2006, hundreds of millions of euros could be saved, equal quality of care, if the information provided to doctors was better. This finding is in line with a confidential report of the General Inspectorate of Health Affairs (IGAS), which already criticized the techniques of promotions and information for pharmaceutical companies to the attention of doctors. One billion euros over five years. According to the UFC-Que Choisir, is the amount that could be saved by limiting unnecessary prescriptions between 2002 and 2006. "And yet, we have studied that 14% of the requirements of the city," says Christophe Le Guehennec, Special Adviser to the health UFC-Que Choisir. This is already the second study of the organization denouncing the high prices of drugs that are not always innovations, but that pharmaceutical firms masquerading as such. Numerous reports Senate, in 2006 in particular, are already interested in these requirements unreasonable, in the same way that a report of the Court of Auditors in September 2007. Very complete and more confidential, the report by the Inspector-General of Health Affairs (IGAS), dated August 2007, was never officially released but was posted on the Internet site Atoute.org. All sources argue the same thing: the prescription is often influenced by the medical visits pharmaceutical companies. In the study, none of the names mentioned. "We have no legitimacy, and our aim was not to accuse a laboratory more than another," says Christophe Le Guehennec. On the other hand, despite the declarations of Christian Lajoux, president of the drug companies (LEEM), which claims that "the UFC makes no reference figures on the medical examination, the figures put forward by the study are impressive. Among the five classes of drugs studied, the case of antiplatelet our attention. Prescribed after an accident cardiovascular, or prevention of heart disease, these medicines are increasingly being used: antiplatelet spending grew by 88% in four years. For many patients, and yet, they substitute a small dose of aspirin, twenty-seven times cheaper and just as effective. According to the UFC-Que Choisir, it would have avoided nearly 350 million euros in spending on health over five years. And this applies to all classes of drugs studied: a total of nearly 200 million euros could be saved per year if prescribers had been better informed. Misinformation and misuse Various studies report that all information for doctors on new drugs is inadequate and incomplete. Some practitioners would have tended to prefer a drug to another, even if it proves to be more costly without being effective. "The doctor seeking unbiased information will have great difficulty in finding it. Even Vidal is funded by the laboratories, "says Christophe Le Guehennec. The UFC-Que Choisir denounces the single origin of the information doctors, the medical visits promotional laboratories. France is one of the countries where the number of visitors Medical is the highest compared to the number of practitioners in town. Nearly two-thirds of the cost of pharmaceutical promotions are devoted to these visits. "Visitors are from the medical advancement, but also of information, awareness of progress," said Christian Lajoux to Quotidien du Pharmacien. From awareness, but not always to medical advances, according to the study of the UFC-Que Choisir. "Today, the doctor chooses the medication he prescribed in his name, and not really depending on the class of drugs which it is part," says Christophe Le Guehennec. Hence, in some cases, misuse of drugs most recent. The president of LEEM seen in this study "the will to challenge the recognition of the therapeutic progress." The organization defends itself: it does not negate the progress made by some medicinal innovations, but denounces the use of excessive and sometimes inappropriate thereof. To reduce these unnecessary requirements, the report recommends the development objective information to doctors, for example by establishing medical visits public, under the auspices of the High Authority Health (HAS) in addition to those firms. "Disarmament promotional" In addition, UFC-Que Choisir supports the idea of IGAS to limit the share of laboratories promotional spending to 4% of their turnover, compared to 12% on average at present, and to reduce the volume of medical visits. That is what the agency calls "promotional" disarmament. "We expect an increase in taxes on the promotion and advertising in the trade press. But we already know that we accuse the companies to force them to reduce the allocation for R & D, "says Christophe Le Guehennec. Faced with heavy accusations and figures of various reports, the silence is deafening pharmaceutical groups. "No personal response" at Sanofi-Aventis, nothing more at Lilly. Just like Novartis, laboratories who are willing to speak on the topic linked to the LEEM proclaimed spokesman exclusive of the pharmaceutical sector. "France is the only country where the medical examination is both controlled" denies Stephanie Fleurot, communication of LEEM, which said that the medical examination will be certified in all laboratories by July 2008. In any case, "it is not us who prescribe medications" she adds.

Dr. Michel Barette

The career of a doctor on the verge of retirement ends in a very bad way. He has been suspended by the College of Physicians for having sex with a patient for over a year. Dr. Michel Barette, a family physician from Magog aged 65, was removed temporarily for a period of three months and ordered to pay a fine of $ 1000. Home visits In 2005 and 2006, he maintained an intimate relationship and had sex with a patient long-suffering at the time of colon cancer. Their relationship began when the doctor paid a visit to the sick at home. He was seduced among others by their common interests. Patients When it was heard by the College of Physicians last December, Dr Barette said he would close his clinic if his removal was over a month due to lack of money. In such an alternative, he said fear of not having the time to redirect his patients to other doctors. Malg re all, the college has chosen to suspend for a period of three months, to the dismay of his attorney, Benedict Massicotte. History of love "A lot of patients are affected and in Magog, family doctors do not run the streets," he said. "It's a shame that so many people have to pay for what was a genuine love story," he adds

Psychological care after an abortion.

A growing number of women looking for a psychological care after an abortion. At first glance this Paris apartment in the fifteenth district, it is like being in the privacy of a family without fuss. The walls refer Yet echo hundreds painful. For here, within the association Agapa, women come entrust what is sometimes the trauma of a lifetime: the abortion. Founded fourteen years ago, instead of listening faces a "distress expressed growing," Marie-Francoise Georges-Picot, vice president of the association. Accompaniments performed by the volunteer team have increased by 20% between 2006 and 2007, and several branches of the association have recently been opened in the provinces. "All the profiles come to us, of all ages, backgrounds, faiths and walks of life," says Claudine Philippot, the dean of the team aconfessionnelle recalling the approach of the association, despite its Christian origins. People who come "are not necessarily close of the event," said Guillemette Porta, a volunteer for four years. Sometimes, abortion took place there ten, twenty or even sixty years, as this woman of 82 years who had recently called, does not digesting "guilt". "Almost 40% of these women" For all the accompanying experience, the general observation is: "If at some point in their lives women in good conscience choose an abortion, often arises distress long after, as a time bomb." Psychiatrist in office since twenty years, Dr. Sophie-Tauss Mathilde says that 30 to 50% of his patients who have experienced this "repressed" have to relive sooner or later this test "with great violence" because "even decided, abortion is never be a banal ". According to figures from INED, "nearly 40% of women have abortions in their lives", which gives rise to some 200000 abortions annually in France. Attendance rose to Agapa but also the recent decision of the Court of Cassation, which has acknowledged that, whatever his age and weight, a fetus could be declared to marital status, according to some observers reflect a "tremor" on the issue of abortion. "The ideological debate that pitted pro-life and pro-abortion sells today gradually replaced by a much more practical: not that the law is challenged by person, abortion is now seen in its psychological effects on women, and the suffering it brings, "says Jean-Marie noted Adrès, vice president of Catholic Family Associations (AFC). For others, the company would start paying the lack of psychological care of abortion. Given the number of women become "depressed", even "a matter of public health to establish forums for listening," said Dr. Mathilde Sophie-Tauss. For Planned Parenthood, this change of "climate", "very conducive to antichoix" and induces widely in Europe by "the alliance of policies Bush and the Vatican in recent years," is "yet another challenge to the freedom of women and their basic rights, "says Maïté Albagly, secretary general of the movement. While many women keep their psychological abortion, "because the culpabilise society," she says, assuring: "There are so many women who are badly that their pregnancy abortions."

Algeria and Egypt will create joint ventures in hydrocarbons

Algeria and Egypt will create joint ventures in the field of hydrocarbons, announced on Sunday the Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci, at the Algiers meeting of the monitoring committee of the Joint Committee Algerian - Egyptian. "The ministers and experts from both countries were able to identify opportunities extremely encouraging cooperation in the energy sector, where joint ventures will see the light of day in the exploration and liquefaction of gas," said Medelci. Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif arrived Sunday in Algiers to attend the proceedings of the committee, said he hoped "to raise economic cooperation between Egypt and Algeria at the height of exceptional political relations" between the two countries. Egypt is the first partner of Algeria in the non-oil investments. Egyptian investments in Algeria amounted to $ 4 billion, said for his part the head of the Algerian government Abdelaziz Belkhadem. He said that further investments of a sum close "are currently under consideration by the National Council of investments particularly in the steel industry. The Egyptian group Orascom is one of the three main operators in Algeria in mobile telephony, with more than 11 million subscribers. It also operates two major cement factories. Mr. Medelci said that the Egyptian companies were "very firm intentions to develop to grow in industrial clusters, steel and aluminium." Apart from industry, twenty agreements should be signed between the two countries concerning the health, education, higher education, scientific research, culture and sports.