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MARIA DEL CARMEN CABEZAS ZAPIEN 5_D
SAFER MEDICINE
Pharmaceutical companies
to privede more information on
prescription drugs and consumers
to be better protected against
counterfeit medicine.
The commission
has tabled proposals to improve how the
European pharmaceutical market operates and ensure that patients
benefit from safe, innovative and
accessible medicines.
One proposal would
allow the industry to post
non-promotional product information on the internet or in health-related publications. Consumers
could then access the information to
find out about the composition , uses and effects of different drugs on the market. At present,
not all Europeans have access to such
information, partly because
standars differ from country to country.
Europeans should be informed about available medicines and treatments since their health is
at stake said vice-president Gunter Verheugen, commissioner for enterprise and
industry.
National
authorities would monitor the information to ensure it does
not violate the Europeans ban on
advertising prescription medicine
. The ban is intended to prevent the inappropriate
consumption of medicine and help contain drug costs.
Other measures-
including mandatory safety features like
serial codes and seals on packages-seek
to protect consumers against counterfeit medicine and unsafe drugs.Counterfeit medicine is a problem
throughout the world.Anyone almost anywhere can come across medicine.
CLAUDIA JULIETA FRANCO RODRIGUEZ 5°D
NOBEL PRIZE DNA REPAIR
CLAUDIA JULIETA FRANCO RODRIGUEZ 5°D
NOBEL PRIZE DNA REPAIR
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancarr, the
3 scientists were chosen for their contributions to the understanding of how
cells repair DNA and safeguard the genetic information that there is It
contains. His research helped us to better understand the functioning of cells
and have applications, for example in the field of oncology. considered the
fathers of DNA repair mechanisms, whose knowledge has allowed, for example, develop
treatments for diseases such as cancer.
The jury considered that the work of the three
researchers have been key to learning how cells repair their DNA and how to
safeguard their genetic material.
Lindahl (Stockholm, 1938) works in the Francis Crick
Institute UK Modrich (1946) is a researcher at Duke University (USA) while
Sancar (of Turkish origin, although US passport) is a researcher at the
University of Carolina from North. As explained by the jury, our cells undergo
every day hundreds of diseases caused by agents such as snuff alterations,
solar radiation or free radicals; "Even without these attacks, DNA is
highly unstable". What the new Nobel Chemistry discovered in their
laboratories from the 70s is that there is a complex system of repair of the
genetic material of cells to prevent these changes translate into a complete
"cell chaos."
Last year, the award went to Americans Eric Betzig and
William E. Moerner and German Stefan W. Hell, all for the development of
fluorescence microscopy which allows the inside of a cell.
This week has already been awarded two Nobel prizes;
Medicine at the William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Chinese Tu Youyou for
his work against infections caused by parasites. And Physics to Takaaki Kajita
and Arthur B. McDonald for his discoveries about neutrinos.
