Month: April 2012

new YORK (Reuters) – circumcised men have a risk slightly less than developing prostate cancer than males that preserve the foreskin, according to a study done in United States. The World Health Organization (who) recommends circumcision after evidence in favour of that reduces the risk of heterosexual men to contract HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. A group of scientists also said last year that wives and partners of circumcised men had lower rate of infection with the virus of human papillomavirus or HPV, which in some cases can cause cervical cancer and other types of cancer. And last week, some researchers said that African men who were circumcised were less likely to be infected with a particular herpes virus. The new study, published in the journal Cancer, coincided with those findings but could not demonstrate that a child to remove the foreskin decreases your future risk of developing cancer, said Dr. Jonathan l. Wright, lead author of the research. “Would not defend the widespread use of circumcision to prevent prostate cancer”, said Wright, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, Seattle Center. “We note an association, but that does not prove causality,” argued. Although most of United States men are circumcised, the procedure has become less popular over the last decade and several groups have felt against him. In September, the Royal Dutch Medical Association discouraging the circumcision, as...

Santo Domingo, 16 mar (EFE).-Dominican Republic today banned lobster fishing in the country for the next four months in order to preserve its existence seriously threatened in recent years, official sources said. The local government issued a decree that explains that the measure prohibits the capture, processing and meat or undeclared mass tenure and commercialization of the crustacean species, shrimp, stone and MOM lobster. The Ordinance said that the ban applies from March 1 to June 30 of each year, “in line with the regional ban within the framework of Sica-Ospesca agreements”, signed by Central America and many nations of the Caribbean. The official measure grants within five days to persons and entities possessing mass of lobster or lobster living in captivity, to make his statement of existence before the Dominican Council of fisheries and aquaculture (Codopesca), for purposes of control. Between the motivations of the provision, laying down that populations of lobster in Dominican Republic show “clear signs of overexploitation”, which has caused a decrease of copies offered for sale to the public. The Ordinance said that the ban applies from March 1 to June 30 of each year, “in line with the regional ban within the framework of Sica-Ospesca agreements”, signed by Central America and many nations of the Caribbean....

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez announced Friday that was about to return to Venezuela after three weeks in Cuba, where operated a new tumor cancerous a few months before the elections in which aspirará for re-election convalesce. representative of 57 years, which had been declared cured last year, will in the coming weeks to radiotherapy treatment to combat the relapse of cancer was diagnosed and which has forced him to slow down its usual pace after three surgeries. “Good afternoon, good world.” We are now taking off from Jose Marti International Airport. “Heading south, towards La Patria”, published the President on the social network Twitter, without giving details on his health. “Raul (Castro) came to say goodbye to the airport and also send a martiano and Bolivarian greeting!” Viva Cuba! Viva Venezuela! “, said Chavez in another message, after reporting that he had eaten with former Cuban President Fidel Castro. “ Meanwhile, uncertainty reigns in the oil country, given that the Government saves the details about the disease and the treatment of the President with Hermeticism and speculation about his condition multiply. Analysts and physicians indicate that a radiotherapy treatment often cause side effects that could curb the momentum of the loquacious representative, who has become accustomed to Venezuelans to Marathon speeches and daily interventions in public events. It can play him against representative, favourite for the October...

avilés (Asturias), 16 mar ( EFE).- the candidate Forum for the Presidency of the Principality, Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, said today that his party is the only one that advocates a “public, free and excellence” health versus a PP who opts for the co-pay for finance and a PSOE whose management in this area has been based “on default”. During a rally in the Hall of the Institute of Carreño Miranda, Álvarez-Cascos has pointed out that in a moment that is being debated on the formulas of financing of health spending his party proposes allocating to health a proper “with resources saved in other non-essential expenditure” budget. , Has pointed out that money in Asturias “not be wastes” since the arrival to power of forum dedicated to pay health, education or social services while in other communities “is not paid to pharmacies, close outpatient or cut the salary to teachers and the functions here not”. For the candidate for re-election, in the debate on the financing of the health the PSOE “comes out to deceive a hypocritical opinion” that, after twelve years of Government, a debt hidden 262 million euros “that referred to as displaced debt and illegal” left as an inheritance in Asturias. “El PSOE – said – said now that it is capable of solving the problem he created and aggravated by providing health with insufficient resources”. Helmets has...

Atlanta, 15 mar ( EFE).-the bilingual immigrants are healthier than those who speak only one language, according to a study by Rice University today disclosed. “Find that immigrants Latino and bilingual Asian reported improved mental health and physics compared with those who speak only English or their native language”, he told Efe Ariela Schachter, one of the researchers who participated in the study. According to the researcher, the advantage of bilingual immigrants is maintained even after taking into account factors such as socioeconomic status. The report, which appears in the March edition of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, suggests that the domain of the English at the expense of the native language may not be as beneficial for the State of health of the immigrants. “It is very important for immigrants to maintain their native language in addition to learn English,” said the researcher. The study analyzed the relationship between the command of the English language and the mother tongue and health among more than 4,649 immigrants from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, China, Philippines and Viet Nam. “Found some evidence that bilingual immigrants are more likely to maintain their social ties with their families in their country of origin, and to also develop positive in United States social networks, and that this is part of the health benefits that brings the bilingualism”, said Schachter. Report says that...