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Hard Rock Coffee initiates the month of the Pink Tape with his PINKTOBER 2009.

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Panama, on September 29, 2009.

The restaurant Hard Rock Coffee, the house of the rock in Panama and in the whole world, initiates in October with his already traditional PINKTOBER, an activity that has with end promoridal the support to the institutions and organizations that fight against the cancer of the bosom.

This year, for the second time in our country, carries out this event during every October, when also there is realized, in the whole world, the campaign of the Pink Tape, which thinks about how to create conscience on the prevention and the consequences of the absence of the same one.

In a press conference, there were announced all the details of this social event of Hard Rock Coffee, which mission for 2009 is to support to the National Oncological Institute, ION, entity that will receive the benefits of this campaign.

Of equal way Hard Rock Coffee it will donate, to an international foundation (Breast Cancer Research Fundation), a percentage of the sales of allusive promotional articles to the campaign of the Pink Tape; while the restaurant in Panama will donate to the National Oncological Institute, 100 % (hundred porciento) of the collected in the national campaign, which bears a series of events that reckon to realize in the restaurant.

The events calendar includes from karaokes, until nights of disc, rock, fashion show and much more.

The same way allusive articles will be had to the sale, in the restaurant, to the campaign of the Pink Tape as, pines, T-shirts, turnkeys, vests and others.

The image of this social campaign of Hard Rock Coffee, it is Maricela Moreno, recognized international figure who, being a healthy woman and without having endured cancer, is identified by the cause after the same one supported in different facets and to spread the importance in the prevention of this illness.

PINKTOBER is an international campaign that gives the opportunity to Hard Rock Coffee places of demonstrating his initiative, therefore Panama has turned into the 2nd HRC of Latin America in carrying out the PINKTOBER in the local ambience. This way HRC him restibuye to the community what it perceives of her, this like part of the philosophy of Hard Rock Coffee.

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The challenge of handling the asthma in small children Things that the parents must know and do.

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It is painful for a father to see his son suffering an asthma attack, coughing, without breath and fighting to breathe. To take care of a small child with asthma can be a challenging experience for most of the parents. Nevertheless, on having learned more about the asthma and being employed at team together with the doctor of his son, the parents can learn to handle the asthma of his son of an effective, easy and sure way.

In the children, the immaturity of the lungs and immune systems together with the narrowest airways and the environmental factors, they can do that it is more difficult to diagnose and to handle the asthma. [i] This is particularly true in babies and children in his first years of life because there are different detonators that affect the children in different stages and are important to handle the asthma in accordance with the age of the patient.

This fact is the reason for which the treatment options must adapt themselves to the needs of the small children and why the medicines of easy administration are important.

Simple steps to help to handle the illness of his son

The studies have demonstrated that almost 50 % of all the babies and children younger than 3 years have experienced at least an event of asthmatic hiss in his lives; with the highest incidence of asthmatic hiss in the first year of life. The babies with asthmatic hiss appellant present a major risk of developing persistent asthma before reaching the adolescence. It is important to recognize the symptoms of the asthma and to handle the illness of an effective and opportune way.

some steps that can help the parents to handle the asthma of his small children:

Know the detonators of the asthma. Between the detonators of common asthmatic symptoms there are the viral infections, the exercise and the exhibition to the smoke of the tobacco, the deficient quality of the air and the alérgenos in interiors and location. [v]

• Reduce the exhibition to alérgenos as much as it is possible, especially at home. The infantile asthma has collaborated with environmental factors, including the environmental contamination. I [saw] Nevertheless, the interior detonators can play such an important role in provoking an asthma attack. [vii]
• To encourage the daily exercise. The daily exercise is essential for a healthy development. Speak with the doctor of his son on the forms in which it can control the inflammation of the airways and the asthma so that his son could take part in playful and sports activities. [viii]

Medicines

The treatments against the asthma think about how to control the symptoms and avoid attacks, with a minimum of side effects related to the medicine.

Two types of medicines exist used to treat the asthma:

• medicines of long-term control that are administered regularly and serve to help to avoid the ataquesy

medicines of rescue and of immediate mitigation that are used to relieve the symptoms during an attack

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The first Inhibitor of world Integrasa for VIH/SIDA, ISENTRESS ® † (raltegravir)

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Approved by the Department of Health in Panama the First Therapy in a New Class Directed to the Medical Need for the New Options of Treatment in Patients in Treatment Experienced. Panama, on July 17, 2009. – Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) announced today that the approval of raltegravir was granted by the Department of Health of Panama for his use in combination with other agents antirretrovirales for the treatment of the infection for VIH in patients with treatment experienced with replicación viral current in spite of therapy antirretroviral (TAR).1 1 Raltegravir is the first inhibitor of integrasa pass, a new class of TAR that works taking like the enzyme as white integrasa, that is essential for the replicación of the VIH.1,2 Like part of the available information, there are two separated clinical essays in which the raltegravir, in combination with other agents antirretrovirales, demonstrated to be effective in reducing the viral load and in increasing the count of cells CD4,3,4 the most recognized ways of measuring the efficacy against the infection of the VIH/SIDA.5 additional Investigations they demonstrated that raltegravir has been generally well be tolerated by it, with a profile of side effects comparable with those of placebo 3,4,6 “Raltegravir is a new important advance in the treatment of the VIH/SIDA, because it is the first therapy in a new class of medicines that attacks the virus of a completely different way,” there said Kenneth Frazier, president of Global Human Health, Merck and Co., Inc.“ The importance of this advance for the patients who cannot already be treated appropriately with traditional therapies must not be on emphasized, and MSD is compromised in doing that raltegravir and other options of new treatments and vaccines are accessible to the global VIH/SIDA community.” In spite of the medicines availability to treat the VIH/SIDA, the global epidemic continua.7 The resistance to the current therapies against VIH in patients in treatment experienced has been observed in numerous international studies, suggesting that the resistance to at least a class of agent antirretroviral can be so high as 76 per cent.

Cathar Ton Enel Fortuna/Kiwanis.

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Finally the technology today can be a miracle for many persons who before so many advances did not have a lot of hopes to solve or to conquer diverse adversities that often we face in the life, this is the example of the patients selected by Cathar Ton that it celebrates in Panama annually, the same that it returns the sight to so many biggest adults who stopped doing so many things because they did not see due to the cataracts.

This July 10 and 11 it is celebrated in Panama the fourth It was looking ton at ENEL FORTUNA/KIWANIS favoring approximately 100 Panamanian ones of scarce resources of different places of our country and without right to social insurance, they will benefit in the center of ocular surgery.

These operations are a report of an agreement of social cooperation signed between the company E NEL FORTUNE AND THE CLUB KIWANIS OF PANAMA, that this year has taken special attention in the population chiricana, of the district of Gualaca, place where the central Hydroelectrics Enel Fortuna is and where after a detailed analysis realized by the health center of the area, 25 persons, of the whole that will be attended, will travel for interventions in the cardinal city with his accompanists.

Thanks to the patronage of the company Enel fortune, to the center of Ocular Surgery and his 18 associates surgeons ophthalmologists and to the foundation Provision 20-30, who will donate his time and knowledge to realize these 100 operations in two days, one can carry out this interesting initiative which entire cost climbs to B/250,000.00 balboas.

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