Month: March 2012

Havana (Reuters) – the Pope Benedict XVI called on Wednesday in his farewell from Cuba to the limitation of the fundamental freedoms in the Island is not obstacle to achieve a change in the island and returned to criticize the embargo United States maintains against the Socialist Government from five decades. After a visit of three days to the Caribbean country, Sumo Pontiff requested “a Cuba of all and for all, banishing the positions fixed to achieve a great national reconciliation at a time when the nation lives their greatest moment of transformation since the triumph of the revolution in 1959. “It is possible to build a broad horizons, renewed and reconciled society.” “That no one is prevented from joining this exciting task by limiting their freedoms fundamental, nor exempted it by laziness or lack of material resources”, said the Bishop of Rome at the airport. In addition, the Holy Father called the end of the embargo that Washington imposed on the country 50 years ago to overthrow his ideological enemy, to compound the difficult economic situation and “weigh negatively on population”. Since his arrival to Santiago de Cuba on Monday, the Pope has insisted that the Government of Raúl Castró will need the help of the Church in the search for new ways and models to deal with “smooth” transformations to come. The Cuban representative thanked Pope Benedict...

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned Thursday morning to Caracas after receiving in Cuba the first cycle of radiotherapy for cancer suffering from and which will obligate you to maintain a virtual presence in the Government and lower the pace in his career for re-election in elections in October. Socialist leader began Saturday in Havana, which in its first phase required five days consecutive application and treatment which marked the start of a season of “comings and goings” to and from the island, while approaching the start of the election campaign that will seek to be...

(Reuters) – the total number of Americans who are diagnosed or die of cancer is declining, but certain types of obesity and inactivity-related cancer are on the rise, according to the annual report of the situation of cancer in United States. United States cancer rates fell by 0.6 per cent per year between 2004 and 2008, according to the report, based on data from the National Institute of cancer, Disease prevention and Control centers and other sources. For men, the incidence of prostate cancer was reduced by an average of 2.1 per cent per year, while lung cancer rates fell by 2 percent. In women, lung cancer rates fell by 1.2 per cent a year, while the incidence of breast cancer, which is associated with obesity, remained equal. “the incidence of breast cancer was reduced when the hormones retreated, but now it has stabilized,” said Dr. Powell Brown, President of the cancer prevention in the Department of medical oncology in cancer MD Anderson Center at the University of Texas in Houston. Brown referred to the discovery of several years ago that the hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women increased the risk of breast cancer and heart disease. El Dr. Brown also explained that the trend of the lung cancer in women has followed men for about 10 years, reflecting the widespread use of tobacco among women. Smoking is responsible...