Viernes, 30 de Diciembre de 2005
UGR experts will design regulations to prevent coercive measures that interfere with the patients´ rights
Supplying a patient with a sedative to keep him calm, binding him to a bed to prevent him from moving, offering him benefits in return from accepting the orders imposed to him or underestimating the patient’s opinion when it comes to carrying out a treatment or an operation are some of the practices developed in Spanish hospitals to safeguard, in many cases, the safety of the patient and the sanitary staff. These actions are often necessary for a correct medical attention, but coercive chemical or physical measures can raise situations of infringement of the patients´ rights.
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Health Science and Technology
Lunes, 05 de Diciembre de 2005
The UGR starts a scientific campaign in Antarctica to analyse the seismic activity of Deception Island
One more year, the scientists of the Universidad de Granada will travel to the Antarctica to puzzle out the secrets of the ice continent. The expedition, composed of the researchers of the Andalusian Institute of Geophysics and Seismic Disaster Prevention Inmaculada Serrano Bermejo and Benito Martín Martínez, will set a course tomorrow Tuesday, 6th of December, for Deception Island, where they will analyse its volcanic evolution and supervise the level of seismic activity, in order to minimize future damage in the ...
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Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics
Jueves, 01 de Diciembre de 2005
Wrong ideas and attitudes make adolescents the highest-risk group for AIDS contagion, according to a UGR study
The UNESCO estimates that in the year 2030, more than forty million adolescents all over the world will become infected by the HIV. The data provided by the National AIDS Registry reveal that the highest number of cases diagnosed from 1981 to June 2005 have been in the interval between 25 and 34 years old. The higher incidence of unwanted pregnancies in young women under 19, the consolidation during preadolescence and adolescence of attitudes, values, beliefs and habits that may influence the adoption of unsafe sex and the fact that the incorporation of the young in sex with more couples is becoming more and more frequent ...
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Lunes, 28 de Noviembre de 2005
Speeding and alcohol consumption are the more influential factors for motorcycle collisions
Excessive or inadequate speed for the existing conditions, alcohol consumption and the age are the most influential factors on mortal accidents with motorcycles or mopeds, according to a study developed by scientists of the Universidad de Granada. The work analyses all the collisions registered by the State Traffic Office from 1997 to 2002 and will be completed with the assessment of the influence of the environmental elements on the seriousness of the accident.
The sample only considers the data of the ...
The sample only considers the data of the ...
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Health Science and Technology
Viernes, 25 de Noviembre de 2005
The UGR pays homage to the historian José Szmolka Clares with a book written by more than sixty experts
In love with Granada and Ceuta, the places where he spent his childhood and adolescence, José Szmolka Clares was first a student and afterwards a professor of the Universidad de Granada, which today pays homage in a book with more than 900 pages, to his works as professor and researchers in the area of history.
This volume, which has just been published by the UGR Press, has been coordinated by professors Antonio Luis Cortés Peña, Miguel Luis López-Guadalupe Muñoz and Francisco Sánchez-Montes González, who ...
This volume, which has just been published by the UGR Press, has been coordinated by professors Antonio Luis Cortés Peña, Miguel Luis López-Guadalupe Muñoz and Francisco Sánchez-Montes González, who ...
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Social, Economic and Legal Sciences
Jueves, 24 de Noviembre de 2005
The twentieth world conference of the International Union of Nutrition Societies (IUNS) will be held in the UGR
Promoting the advance of nutritional science, research and development through global cooperation, getting a good communication and collaboration between scientists devoted to nutrition and spreading information about nutrition sciences through communication technology, particularly in Latin American countries and the Mediterranean basin, are the main objectives of the 20th World Conference of the International Union of Nutritional Societies (IUNS) that will be held in Granada in 2013, becoming the first Spanish city that hosts this meeting, which has already been held in cities like Basel, Amsterdam, Paris, Edinburgh, Washington, Prague and Kyoto.
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Viernes, 18 de Noviembre de 2005
The Universidad de Granada publishes a postcolonial view of the History of Medicine at the dawn of the 21st century
The difficulty about setting works in motion to define the fundamentals of a discipline like History of Medicine (this is, which are the theories, methodological proceedings, models and tendencies, views and present problems useful to understand this field of work) is a consequence of the social and intellectual atmosphere of the change of century. With these premises, professor of the department of Pathological Anatomy and Science History of the UGR, Rosa María Medina Doménech, deals ...
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Health Science and Technology
Jueves, 10 de Noviembre de 2005
UGR researchers are working on an ecological, effective, non-toxic and low-cost detergent
Tensioactives world production (compounds exerting the wash function in detergents) amounted to two million tons in 2001, including soap. The expectations of future growth are from three to four per cent, an increase closely connected with the world demand of detergents, which is higher and higher. In parallel with this increase, concern is growing too, as far as these products must be ecological, non-toxic, cheap and, in addition, effective. A research team of the University of Granada is working on the design of biodegradable detergents respectful with the environment, which adapt to the needs ...
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Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics
Miércoles, 09 de Noviembre de 2005
Alarm among researchers for the growing spreading of toxic chemical components
Recent scientific studied show that chemical components industrially produced can be found in humans and animals. A research work carried out in Europe by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF-Adena) proved that in the blood of three successive generations there is a mixing of up to seventy different chemical substances, which are not produced naturally in the environment. Some of them, like brominated flame retarders, reach their highest levels in children. In other study by WWF-Adena, they did research into chemical components in blood from the umbilical cord of newborns and they found out ...
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Health Science and Technology
Lunes, 07 de Noviembre de 2005
UGR study reveals that the consumption of ecstasy affects the encephalic weight and eye development of embryos and foetus
Liquid ecstasy is at present one of the most consumed drugs by the young due to its euphoric effects (which can remain for about an hour), its reasonable price and because it is easy to get. Its unhibitor nature can favour pregnancy in teenagers, a circumstance that opens a new study channel for researchers, who must observe not only the effects in consumers, but also in the embryo or foetus in the short and long term. A team of scientists of the Universidad de Granada is precisely working on the determination of such ...
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