Month: March 2012

Washington, 30 mar ( EFE).-the President of United States, Barack Obama, today defended its reform health as an example of the “change” that he promised before arriving at the White House, but kept silence about the hearings of this week in the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of the law. “Change is health care reform that we adopted after more than one century of attempts,” said Obama during a rally before hundreds of supporters at the University of Vermont, Burlington. Such a reform, passed by Congress and promulgated by Obama in 2010, says that in the United States.UU. “nobody will go to the bankruptcy to be sick,” emphasized the Chairman of electoral tour today in the States of Vermont and Maine with a view to the elections on November 6. Also remarked that “some 2.5 million young people now have health insurance” and that “millions of older Americans are paying less for their medicines”. However, Obama not made no reference to the hearings held between Monday and Wednesday in the Supreme on the constitutionality of its reform, called the affordable health care Act. 26 States, most Republicans, have filed lawsuits against the law, the greatest achievement of the mandate of Obama and the most maligned by the opposition. Hearings this week demonstrated that the Division of views within the Supreme, where five of the judges were appointed by...

Washington, 28 mar ( EFE).-A Committee of experts in the United States.UU. Today recommended the publication of two studies on variants of the influenza viruses avian (or H5N1) will spread among mammals, after having advised in December not to disclose them for fear that they were used to develop a bioweapon. “the data described in the revised manuscripts seem not to provide information that would immediately allow the misuse of research in a way that could endanger public health or national security”, explained in a statement the National Advisory Council of biosecurity in the United States.UU. (NSABB, for its acronym in English). The same Council had recommended in December that studies, ready to be published by the magazine “Nature” and “Science”, were not disclosed for fear that the details were used to develop a biological weapon terrorist purposes by States or armed organizations. After this recommendation, United States authorities stopped the publication, prompting complaints from the scientific community and the magazines, that pan called the extent of censorship. Studies, carried out by scientists from the universities Erasmus of Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Wisconsin (EE.)(UU.), collect findings in laboratory on mutations genetic of the H5N1 virus can spread between mammals and, therefore, human. One of the main objectives of these studies was to obtain the information necessary to prevent a possible pandemic caused by this variant and create a vaccine...

Montevideo, 26 mar (EFE).-the Uruguayan Government suspended today the release of horses abroad and careers in racetracks in the country by the outbreak of a respiratory illness among copies pura sangre, a measure considered excessive by the affected employers and inadequate by veterinarians. In a resolution of eight points to which he had access Efe, the Directorate General of livestock services indicated that measures were taken following the discovery “of an illness of acute respiratory symptoms, high morbidity and low mortality in horses”. Even if the entity, dependent on the Ministry of livestock, agriculture and fisheries, reported that still no a “diagnosis” laboratory of disease, he pointed out that “there are similar cases in countries of the region (sudamericana) compatible with influenza or equine rinoneumonitis”. Precautions affect full horses thoroughbred racing but also in lesser extent to “all horses entering premises of concentration of animals”, such as auctions (auctions), evidence of horse riding, fairs and other centres or e entertainment. In such cases, the animals must have a special veterinary certificate. Next weekend begins in Montevideo the Criolla, a famous equestrian fair held at Easter and whose core activities, the jineteadas (a kind of domas), remain standing, although with these latest restrictions will suffer. On behalf of one of the undertakings concerned, the Hippodrome Maroñas of Montevideo, the Manager of the institution, Oscar Bertoletti, expressed Friday his “surprise” and...