Month: April 2012

Washington, 3 Apr (EFE).-the American former Dick Cheney was commissioned today after having been operated ten days of a heart transplant in Virginia, according to a statement released by his office ago. Cheney, of 71 years, underwent on March 24 at Fairfax Inova Hospital, in Virginia, after more than 20 months on the waiting list to receive a heart transplant. In the posted statement today, Cheney reiterated “its deep appreciation to the donor and to the family of the donor”. Former U.S. Vice-President under the leadership of George w. Bush (2001-2009) had suffered several attacks to the heart in the past and lived with a system of heart pumping from surgery which was submitted in July...

IU has requested the appearance of the delegate for the National Plan, Francisco de Asís Babín MADRID, 3 (EUROPA PRESS) Spokesman parliamentary IU in the Health Commission of the Congress, Gaspar Llamazares, has regretted the reduction of 28 per cent suffered by the National Plan on drugs, taking into account the draft of the State budget (PGE) presented this Tuesday in the Chamber of Deputies, would have gone from 25 to 18 million euros. East Plan has a rigid source which does not depend on Budgets that comes from the bottom of property confiscated by illicit drug trafficking, which could inject a quantity that could be around 4 billion, “However, is going to be very during affected by the cut,” as explained to Europe Press. In its opinion, such initiatives, demonstrates that “the Government shrugged prevent and prefers to penalize;” “prefer the criminal State to social State, by making it cross a red line that said he would not hand over eliminating prevention policies”. The National Drug Plan is one of the most important prevention strategies, he has pointed out, given that it includes actions designed to sensitize and inform social sectors on the risks which can lead to drug use, as well as the emphasis placed on everything that has to do with prevention in the fields of education and school. For this reason, and following the presentation...

Geneva, 3 APR ( EFE).-in the year 2050 there will be worldwide approximately 400 million elderly people in 80 years, compared with the 14 million were in the middle of the 20th century, an Aging population that is of concern to the World Organization of the health (who). The ageing of the population is taking place in all countries of the world, although each State is different from this transition phase, and the result is that “in a matter of years” will in the world have more people over 60 than children under age of 5, according to a who report released today. With these data, the World Health Organization warns of the challenge of a phenomenon which is dedicated this year the commemoration of World Health Day (7 April) with the motto “good health add life to years”. The challenge is a consequence that poor and developing countries have climbed on the bandwagon of the ageing of the population they are from years ago Europe, Japan and North America. Are now countries of income low and means “those who are experiencing great change”, according to the who report, which predicts that you by the year 2050 80 per cent of the elderly live in these economies. Chile, China and Iran will have a greater proportion of older people than United States, notes the report for example. What is...