Month: April 2012

CHICAGO, USA (Reuters) – health authorities of United States launched an advertising campaign of 54 million dollars (41 million euros) on Thursday with gruesome details about the health risks arising from smoking in the last battle of the Government against the cigarette. 12 Weeks campaign, called “Tips from former smokers”, is an effort to counter the us almost $ 10.5 billion they spend per year the tobacco companies to market and promote cigarettes in United States. “This is really a struggle of type David against Goliath”. “The tobacco industry has spent more than 100 billion dollars in marketing and promotion,” said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and the prevention of (CDC for its acronym in English). “Continue spending more than 10 billion dollars per year.” “That’s 1 million per hour” added. Nearly 8 million Americans have with tobacco-related illnesses and up 443.000 die per year from causes linked to smoking. Although health authorities that many smokers give up the habit, recent evidence suggests that the message is not taking effect between young people. Agreed the report of the director-general of public health of United States on smoking among young people, published last week, one of every four senior grades of secondary school students is regular smoker. And because few smokers starting in high school manage to stop the cigarette is expected that 80 percent...

Washington, 14 March (EFE).-tobacco policies have decreased the consumption of cigarettes in United States and avoided almost 800,000 deaths from cancer between 1975 and 2000, according to a report published today the journal of the National Cancer Institute. The Office of the Inspector General of health in the United States.UU. It aired in 1964 its first report on the impact of smoking on health and the study published today points out that if since then would have ceased the consumption of tobacco products “some 2.5 million people had avoided death by lung cancer” in the next 36 years. “These findings provide a clear illustration of the devastating impact of tobacco use in our country and the enormous benefits that are obtained by reducing the rate of smoking,” said Robert Croyle, director of the Division of Control of cancer and population Sciences at the Institute of cancer. Croyle added that “Although there has been great progress not we loosen our efforts”. “The prevention and cessation of tobacco use remained vital priorities in medicine, science and public health,” argued. Researchers used a method of comparative model within which the detailed records of the patterns of use of cigarettes in individuals born between 1890 and 1970 were built. Then viewing those stories with mortality rates for lung cancer in mathematical models that allowed them to calculate the impact of the changes in...

Santo Domingo, 14 mar ( EFE).- the number of deaths from tuberculosis in Dominican Republic was reduced by more than 76 per cent over the past seven years, said today the local Ministry of health, he attributed the situation to the strengthening of preventive programs. The official agency said in a statement, which at least 321 people with pulmonary tuberculosis were cured in the country in the past seven years and the number of deaths from the disease around decreased 76.7%. The number of deaths from this disease in the same period was 101, amounting to 321 cases less than those recorded in 2004, added the Dominican Health Ministry. “These data are very important, because it is estimated that for each patient over the disease prevents the spread of 10 or 30 people who could potentially be passed, said the Government agency. To local Ministry of health this downward trend is of great satisfaction, although they will continue strengthening preventive actions in the diagnosis, study of people at high risk of infection and in the follow-up of the patient until his healing, applying appropriate treatment to ensure the control of TB in the country. “Certainly that we are making headway in the fight against tuberculosis”, added the paper, “Although we must recognize that we have challenges to overcome for the coming years”. The local Ministry of health stressed that...

Conguimi ( Ecuador), 14 mar ( EFE).- ponds of water and mercury are the legacy of illegal mining in the Amazon region of Ecuador, where excavators without permits continue their destruction in search of gold, while the Government tries to recover some of these areas agreements with local communities. In the small village of Conguimi, shuar ethnicity and lost in the Cordillera del Cóndor, which is a green jewel in the Ecuadorian Amazon province of Zamora-Chinchipe, the Government sealed pozas toxic with a yellow ribbon that warning of their danger. Opened excavators to drill into the ground, where water, leaving the miners wore there same to wash the gold with mercury, according to Fernando Luna, the Prefecture of Zamora Chinchipe. environmental engineer Close to there, in a brickpit in Wawintza, Efe was able to observe how about ten machines were the Earth in search of gold, in an area embedded in the middle of the majestic nature and surrounded by several rivers. Is an illegal operation, according to the inhabitants of the region, in which the clutches of bulldozers drilled Earth without contemplation and have come to change the course of the River. Moon explained that often land owners reach agreements so that the miners excaven their farms, but this activity pollutes the water and the same land. The Government carried out operations against illegal farms, at the same...

Washington, 13 mar (EFE).-the Catholic Bishops of Pennsylvania (EE.)(UU.) They called for a day of fasting and prayer on March 30 in protest at a law promoted by President Barack Obama, that oblige employers to offer contraception to their workers. In a letter disclosed today, the Bishops considered that this rule constitutes a “serious and unprecedented violation” against religious freedom. “Cannot stand idly”, bishops, calling all Catholics to dedicate a day of “fasting and prayer” next “preservation of religious freedom” March 30. The original rule, announced by the Government in January and it sparked criticism of the Catholic Church and the Republicans, it was intended to compel the institutions of confession to offer contraception to their employees. After the generated controversy, Obama announced that Catholic institutions can claim religious objections to not provide contraceptives. In this case, the obligation to offer contraceptives will rely on insurance companies. The parishes shall be exempt and the other Catholic schools and hospitals entities will have a transitional period until August 2013 to implement the measure, included in healthcare reform enacted in 2010. Catholics represent a quarter (77 million) of the total population of United States....