Month: April 2012

today called for Rio de Janeiro, 3 Apr (EFE).-the Ministry public Brazil Federal civil court action pay compensation of 20 billion reales (10.952 million dollars) against the American Chevron oil by the oil spill occurred on 4 March in one of their wells in the Atlantic. The request of the Attorney-General in the city of Campos, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, was the second in less than two weeks against the American company and its contracted company Transocean, the Agency said in a statement reported. The past March 21, the public prosecutor’s Office denounced the two companies and 17 executives of both for his responsibility in the discharge of 2,400 barrels of oil occurred last November in the field of Frade and sought compensation for identical amount. In the request, the Office also considered the immediate stoppage of activities in that field and the ban on remittances abroad by the two companies. As in the first request for compensation, the public prosecutor’s Office demanded a revaluation of the Emergency Plan of the company, pointed to as the main cause of spills of oil in the Campos Basin. “Damages environmental and heritage of the State are, at this point, incalculable,” said in a statement the Prosecutor in Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Santos de Oliveira. In the complaint, the Attorney-General also requested that an investigation into the control that...

new YORK (Reuters Health) – A study of Taiwan reveals that men with erectile dysfunction are 63 percent more likely than the rest to also suffer migraines. El doctor Tobias Köhler, the Faculty of Medicine of the Southern Illinois University in United States and specialist in male fertility, said that he had never heard of the relationship between migraines and impotence. “Is an interesting first acknowledgement of the correlation, “ but in no way means that there is a relationship “ causal”, clarified Köhler, who did not participate in the study. Is unknown the explanation of the relationship between the erectile dysfunction (DE) and the headache, although the migraines are associated with female sexual dysfunction according to remind the authors in the journal Cephalalgia. However, “no study so far had explored the “” relationship between migraine and the of”, writes the team of Dr. Huang Chao-Yuan, the Faculty of Medicine of the University National Taiwan. In United States, some 20 million men suffer from helplessness. The team of researchers analysed the information of 23,000 men registered in a national database of benefits of Taiwan. Some 5,700 had been diagnosed with , which is the inability to maintain an erection. Then, be compared with 17,000 men who had not used treatments for impotence. To 4.25 percent of men with of also be you they had been diagnosed with migraines, compared...

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...

Tokyo, 3 Apr ( EFE).-Japan is today maintained on alert by a storm of wind and rain which has led to cancel some 400 flights domestic, many of them in the Airport Haneda tokiota, and to reduce rail services in part of the country. The airline Japan Airlines has canceled at least 209 flights with arrival or departure from Haneda, while All Nippon Airways has suspended 83 in Haneda, Osaka (Center) and Fukuoka (South) and several smaller companies have cancelled other 118 flights, reported the public television NHK. In addition, the Japan Rail East railway company has reduced its services in the metropolitan area of Tokyo and the frequency of its trains bullet in two of its main lines in the East of the country. According to the Nippon Meteorological Agency, the archipelago are affected today by a storm caused by a trough of low pressure with winds and rains that Tokyo could surpass the 100 kilometres per hour. In some parts of the Southwest and West of the country have already registered winds of more than 130 kilometers per hour, which in Western Toyama province have come to dump five trucks whose drivers have been unscathed, said NHK. The alert remains in virtually all coastal provinces of Japan, where also was warned of waves up to ten metres on the West Coast and between six and eight feet...

new YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study suggests that take ibuprofen before traveling to areas of height would help to some people avoid the headache and nausea than produces the so-called “high evil”. But even ibuprofen, “there are many people who do not have “” Symptoms”, said Dr. Robert Roach, director of the center of Research of the altitude of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Colorado in Denver. “there will also be some (people) that ibuprofen not “” serve them too”, said Roach, who did not participate in the study. Team doctor Jeffrey Gertsch, of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of California, San Diego, asked a group of volunteers leading a few kilometres to climb of about 1,200 to about 3,650 meters in the mountains White of California. Half of the participants took 360 milligrams (mg) of ibuprofen three times per day, from six hours before the rise. The other half took placebo (control group). The participants stayed overnight in height. 43 Percent of the group treated with ibuprofen developed bad altitude acute, with a severe headache and at least other symptoms, compared with 69 per cent of the Group’s control. Eight volunteers had severe enough symptoms as to require treatment, six with ibuprofen and two with placebo, according to published Annals of Emergency Medicine. The authors estimated that four people would be...