The assessment of the Newborn Hearing Screening Program in the Region of Murcia from 2004 to 2012.

Objectives: Newborn (NB) auditory deficit has a prevalence of 1-2% in the world. Since the 1990s different screening programs have been put into practice. The Newborn Hearing Screening Program has been in operation since 2002 in our hospital (HCUVA) in Murcia (Spain) and two years later it was introduced into the whole of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia as part of universal healthcare.

[Lemierre's syndrome. An unusual variant].

Lemierre's syndrome or postanginal septicaemia is described in the literature as an unusual complication of oropharyngeal infection. In most cases the syndrome is caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum. This disease usually occurs in young healthy individuals with an oropharyngeal infection, implying high fever, cervical tumefaction, and cervical pain, frequently associated with septic lung embolization.