Month: November 2011

China condemns 113 persons by the adulteration of pork with a carcinogen

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Beijing, 26 nov (EFE).-the Chinese courts condemned 113 people, including 77 servants to various prison terms for his involvement in the adulteration of pork with el chemical clenbuterol, which can cause cancer.

The official Xinhua News Agency disseminated today statements, issued on the evening of Friday and that they vary from several years in prison until punishment death conditional on good behavior.

The chief culprit, Liu Xiang, was sentenced to death with a trial period of two years in which will be able to fail over a lesser sentence if he shows good behavior, according to the judgment of the superior court of Henan province in central China and one of those affected by the adulteration of pork in March.

The illegal Liu factory produced the clenbuterol, a carcinogenic chemical added to feed for pigs to produce a meat more lean.

His factory was intercepted on March 25 in the city of Xianyang in Henan and the authorities inculparon Liu and his collaborator, Xi Zhongjie, sentenced to string perpetua.

Liu and Xi invested approximately 6,000 euros each in 2007 to produce clenbuterol and sell it to pig traders to obtain more benefits.

In March, the sentenced two had sold more than 2,700 kilograms of the chemical in eight provinces including Henan, Shandong and Jiangsu, with revenues of about € 750,000.

According to the statement of the tribunal, all officials involved in the scandal, including of health inspection and food safety, have received “severe” penalties for negligence and abuse of power, with between three and nine years in prison.

Punishments for involved 36 farmers were more lenient, with penalties ranging from probation to one year in prison.

Forgery scandal also splashed Shuanghui Group, the largest processor of meat from China, which suffered a boycott at the national level and an inspection of the food safety authorities, as reported in March the State China Central television (CCTV).

The clenbuterol is a chemical bronchodilator whose use is forbidden to feed livestock and that can cause nausea, dizziness, headaches and heart palpitations in humans. EFE

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A sick woman takes 16 days on hunger strike in Fuerteventura to claim more medical attention

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PUERTO del ROSARIO (FUERTEVENTURA), 26 (EUROPA PRESS)

Maria of the Carmen Quiza, neighboring Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura), brings more than 16 days hunger strike between avenida Primero de Mayo and the Institute of Social Security to claim more medical care and the valuation of their State of incapacity, as reported in a press release the State Association of people affected by syndromes of multiple chemical sensitivitySyndrome of chronic fatigue and Fibromyalgia and for the defence of the environmental health (Altea-SQM).

Diseases suffers Quiza Carmen María are syndrome fatigue chronic encephalomyelitis Miálgica, recognised as a neurological disease by who since 1996 and classified with the code (SFC-EM-G93.3) in ICD-10, and fibromyalgia, also recognized (FM – M79.7) in his review of the 2006 ICD-10.

Altea-SQM has explained that these are “disease crippling, severe by his character multisystem, multiórganica and recognized by the who and in many countries, except Spain”.

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The Association has warned of the danger that runs the lives of Carmen Quiza and deemed it “unacceptable and incomprehensible” that “are violated fundamental rights and human rights, which is happening in the 21st century in the country of the first world”.

Altea-SQM have sent letters to warn of the danger to the health of Carmen Quiza the Mayor of Puerto del Rosario, Marcial Morales; the General Hospital of Fuerteventura; emergency of Puerto del Rosario; to the Ministry of health of Las Palmas; to the Territorial Treasury for Social Security; at the center of health of Puerto del Rosario; Center doctor Virgen de la Peña, and the Centre of specialty medical of Fuerteventura.

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The pre school, a good place to learn how to communicate

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Laura Justice, researcher in charge of a study conducted by the State University of Ohio (United States), says that in general the children with language difficulties are located in the same classrooms and “this is not good for the development of the language.” “We have to pay more attention to as arman preschool classes”. Justice emphasizes that to those guys with a good capacity to communicate is not them affects share Al space with companions to which them costs a little more.

Published in the journal Child Development, the research was conducted with 338 boys attending 49 different pre-primary schools. At the beginning of the academic year each small volunteer made a series of tests designed to measure your language skills. These tests were used to check your grammar, vocabulary and ability to talk about what they saw in a book of drawings. Justice repeated these tests to half of the year to check whether they had improved or worsened their ability to communicate.

At the same time, the experts were set if children with language problems were going to a class with colleagues who shared this difficulty, or if they were in a classroom with kids who speak correctly.

Justice observed that children with difficulties in language that extended its school year in classes with companions who shared this problem failed to overcome it. On the contrary, they won many best results which were in classrooms with guys who possessed good language skills.

And those who already had a great capacity to communicate, maintained and improved even if they shared their time by colleagues that they cost a little. According to Justice, separated in different classrooms from preschool children according to their ability to communicate prevents that they receive assistance when they need it.

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UNEP: controlling temperature global requires acting against gas industrial.

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Nairobi, 21 nov (EFE).-controlling the rise of global temperatures requires urgent action against a group of chemicals increasingly used, as the industrial gases known as HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons), warned today the United Nations programme for the environment (UNEP).

Los HFCs, which could make the temperature to rise by more than two degrees in the 21st century, used “air conditioning, refrigerators, material against fire and insulating foams machines”, and replaced more and more often to those who have been banned to protect the ozone layer, UNEP said in a statement issued from its headquarters in Nairobi.

UNEP today presented a report according to which by the year 2050 HFCs could cause the emission of 3.5 billion tons and 8,500 million tons of carbon dioxide, comparable to the current annual issue of the means of transport (about 6,000 or 7,000 million tonnes).

This report, entitled “HFC: link key in la protection of the climate and the layer of ozone”, is the first of the three that it intends to present UNEP this week, on the occasion of the Summit of climate change (COP 17) UN to be held in Durban (South Africa) from November 28 to December 9.

“More than 20 years of international effort to save the ozone layer is one of the best examples of cooperation between Nations,” which meant the removal of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) in 2010, said today the executive director of UNEP, Achim Steiner.

However, said Steiner, Nations now have come to use HFCs, “Although not damaged and practically the ozone layer, yes causing a greenhouse effect”.

According to the head of UNEP, “the good news is that today there are alternatives,” do not use HFCs, as designing homes for the air conditioning is not necessary to use fiber instead of foam to insulate buildings. EFE

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The pharmaceutical Gilead acquired Pharmasset by 8.164 million.

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FOSTER CITY (United States), 21 (EUROPA PRESS)

Gilead Sciences and Pharmasset pharmaceutical companies have reached a definitive agreement whereby Gilead will acquire Pharmasset by 11 billion dollars (8.164 million euros) in cash, amounting to 137 dollars per share, as reported by the company in a statement.

Operation, scheduled to conclude in the first quarter of 2012, has received the unanimous support of the Board of Directors of Pharmasset, a pharmaceutical company specializing in treatments for hepatitis C (HCV).

The price paid by Gilead is an 89% more in comparison with $69,02 in which closed last Friday Pharmasset actions, as well as a premium of 59% compared to its historic maximum.

Gilead intends to finance this operation with cash that is available, with bank debt and unsecured senior bond and provides for the operation, once completed, affects the benefits until 2014 and raise them in 2015 and years later.

“The acquisition of Pharmasset represents an opportunity important and attractive to accelerate the efforts of Gilead change the paradigm of treatment for patients infected with HCV through the development of regimes by mouth for the treatment of the disease,” said the President and CEO of Gilead, John C. Martin.

Also, he stressed that this operation will serve to boost your business’s long-term growth and showed their confidence in that can work closely with the team of Pharmasset to move towards a more comprehensive hepatitis C. clinical program

For his part, President and Chief delegate, Pharmasset, Schaefer Price, was satisfied to Gilead, who shares his commitment to provide new oral therapies for high efficiency HCV patients. Furthermore, stressed that the company can benefit from “the experience and the leadership of Gilead in the development and commercialization of antiviral drugs”.

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips