Month: April 2012

Rome (Reuters) – the Pope Benedict XVI walked on Friday in public for the first time at the start of his journey to Latin America, in a sign of his growing physical weakness helped by a cane. The Pontiff, who turns 85 next month, walked to a plane at the Airport Fiumicino of Rome with a cane, said the Vatican reporters accompanying him on his visit to Cuba and Mexico. The Pope last year began using a mobile platform to avoid too much walking on the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica. The Vatican said that the Catholic leader was using the platform to avoid fatigue and that there were no major concerns about his health in general. Benedict XVI intends to rest 24 hours after his arrival to Mexico to recover from lag, in contrast to the busy schedule of his predecessor John Paul II rather than his health deteriorate in the last years of his life. The German Pope was 78 years old when he was elected to the maximum in the Catholic Church and has decided to keep a schedule less exhausting to maintain his health, while John Paul II was 58 at the start of his papacy. John Paul II, who died in 2005, made 19 trips to Latin America, a region in overwhelmingly Catholic majority, the last of them when he was 82 years old....

London (Reuters) – Gold rose on Friday before the advance of the euro but still way to accumulate a fourth straight week of declines, given that irregular consumer demand and growing optimism about the United States Economic Outlook affect the appetite of investors for metal. ** Global shares were under pressure on Friday, after touching the most in eight months previously this week, by the resurgence of concerns about the health of the economies of China and the euro zone and by the return of attention to the debt burden of the Spain and Italy. ** This month the ingot price has fallen nearly 3 percent, as a change in the perception of investors about the US economy made havens such as gold or of the United States Treasury bonds less attractive compared with stocks and currencies of high-income. ** Also felt the pressure of the decline in the price of gold on the investment in funds that are backed by physical metal and are traded in markets, resulting on Friday in the largest daily reduction of holdings in three months. ** Gold spot won a 0.66 cent to 1.655,74 $ per ounce to the 1304 GMT, recovering from minimum of 1.627,68 dollars seen on Thursday, but was still targeting a 0.14 percent decline during the week, which would be the fourth consecutive weekly loss. ** “the strength of...

VALENCIA, 23 (EUROPA PRESS) Pharmacists of Valencia have claimed Friday the EUR 90 million owed them that Ministry of health for the Bill for the month of November, as confirmed in Europe Press sources of the illustrious College of pharmacists of Valencia (Micof). The President of the College of pharmacists of Valencia, María Teresa Guardiola, told Europa Press, denounced a delay in this payment in accordance with the agreed deadlines to meet income. However, the Minister of health, Luis Rosado, explained Thursday that this payment “had been delayed by internal problems” of banks, for a cause “oblivious” to her apartment. In fact, stated that the Ministry of Health issued “a week ago the payment order” corresponding to that amount and assured that this Department has fulfilled “in time and...

Álvaro Mellizo Montevideo, mar 21 ( EFE).- morphine for sleep sick with respiratory problems and inoculate 20 centimeters cubic air in the veins to allow “rest” admitted to intensive care were part of the methods that used two nurses, accused of killing 15 patients in two hospitals in Montevideo. As it can be seen from the judicial indictment released today, two nurses employed these methods in its activities, considered as acts “pious” and “beneficial for humanity”. In their statements to the judge Rolando Vomero, the nurse of 46 years Ariel Acevedo, working at the Spanish Association of mutual aid and which is responsible for the deaths of ten people, said have used a syringe 20 cubic centimeters to inject a number of patients. “How do many?, it is impossible to answer, because it is not a thing to keep track.” “Did it for, what I am about to say is contradictory, but I did for humanity”, said Acevedo in the courts as it picks up the order of the investigating judge. Acevedo, who acknowledged ten people as victims in the list presented after being arrested, confessed that his performance occurred because “it was the limit” of his person by the suffering of the people and that is why he took the decision “to let the people suffer”. but spent so much time and saw that, continued and continued.” “And,...

Singapore (Reuters) – the habit of smoking costs the world of a 1 to 2 percent of its Gross domestic product every year and could kill nearly one billion people this century, said the authors of the fourth edition of the Atlas of tobacco, during the launch of the book in Singapore. Economic losses include direct and indirect costs such as medical costs to treat smoking-related diseases and the value of the lost productivity, said the authors of the book, published by the society American cancer and the World Lung Foundation. The cost of smoking could be even greater, as maintains it one of the authors of the book, Hana Ross, saying that they are difficult to measure intangible costs as the suffering of members of the family or the pain felt by patients. “During the 20th century, smoking killed 100 million people.” “It is estimated that in the 21st century you will kill 1 billion people,” said the lead author of the book, Michael Eriksen, in the presentation during a global Conference of health in Singapore. The world’s population has grown more than four times in the last century, surpassing the 7 billion people last year. Eriksen said that there are about 1 billion smokers worldwide and 360,000 passive smokers die each year from exposure to smoke, of which 75 per cent are women and children. China is...