Friday, October 22, 2010

Get Burn Marks Off Iron

Health. motion of "LaDestra" in Region

The Regional Directors of "LaDestra, Francesco Storace and Roberto Buonasorte, submitted a motion for a few days ago President Polverini to take urgent action to allow people with rheumatoid arthritis undergoing to adequate medical treatment through the administration of biological drugs, including the Actemra.

tocilizumab, is now available in four regions (Lombardy, Marche, Campania and Abruzzo), is a new biologic drug that blocks a protein, interleukin, which feeds the fire of the disease, helping to contain the inflammation and to bring the patient into remission. In this way the drug reduces the erosive joint damage and reduces the effects of systemic illness: fatigue and anemia. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation that attacks the joints, skin tissues, lung, eye and blood vessels suffer more than 300 000 Italians, mostly women and usually occurs in a symmetrical manner in the various organs, both hands and both knees, with a disease whose main symptoms are joint stiffness, swelling and difficulty in movement. If poorly treated can cause irreversible damage to joints and internal organs, with the risk of joint injuries that can lead to immobility total.

"We are proud of the work being carried out in our State representatives. The great attention to the Social and Health summarized the sense of the presence of" LaDestra "within the institutions. This motion is nothing more than yet another signal that our party wants launch, in a political scenario that seems increasingly willing to cut the resources for the health protection of citizens' comments on the Secretary Angelo Macaro Municipal and Provincial Director Francesco Ciccone.

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