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Madrid, 7 APR ( EFE).-the World Health Day is celebrated today under the slogan “good health add life to the years” and is dedicated to ageing, but also to the quality of life of which can boast more than half of the eight million Spaniards that have surpassed 65. The average age of Spanish citizens stood at 41.1 years in 2010, while the life expectancy at birth rose to 81.9 years, data showing a gradual ageing of the...
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Paris, 6 APR (EFE).-the condemnation pronounced against the multinational oil company Total France for his responsibility in the oil slick in 1999 resulting from the sinking of the oil tanker “Erika” may be annulled, as revealed today the gala press. The trial to Total, who appealed the sentence to pay fine of 375,000 euros, the increased penalty provided in France for an ecological crime, could be annulled by the way, and not by the Fund, should so decide on 24 May the French Supreme Court. “Ouest France” and “Libération” newspapers reported today that so it will happen if the Court follows the opinion of the Attorney general and the conclusions of a report exempting liability to prisoners on the grounds that the collapse of the “Erika” did not occur in French waters. According to this opinion reported by the newspapers, the “Erika”, which was sailing under a Maltese flag, poured the oil transported in the exclusive economic zone (ZEE), i.e., outside the territorial waters of France. Therefore, and given that the French State, according to international regulations, can only be applied its law outside territorial waters if the ship of which concerned has Gallic Pavilion, would be that in the case of the “Erika” the Gallic law would be inapplicable. Would lead to the annulment of the sentence to Total since, according to the line proposed by the Prosecutor...
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Tokyo, 6 APR ( EFE).- the season of cherry blossoms, known in Japan as “sakura”, has rescued, one year after the tsunami that struck the country, the spirit of festive and lively million Japanese these days enjoyed one of its greatest traditions. Last year, with Japan still shocked that was its worst disaster since World War II, local authorities called to avoid the large common celebrations in the “sakura” out of respect for the more than 19,000 deaths and missing. A year after the tragedy, sadness has given way to normalcy and Japan has gradually recovered its pulse, which has allowed the capital gardens amanezcan these days with perfectly aligned blue tarpaulins that warn of a reserved space for the “hanami”, the great feast of the “sakura”-trimmed. Are days in which the usual rigor gives way to a greater spontaneity and groups of friends, co-workers and families gather to celebrate mass “hanami” or under cherry blossom picnic. According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency, today is the day that the cherry trees are in full bloom in Tokyo, a week later than expected before the cold which has plagued the capital last month, while in the northeast of the country it will be delayed a week. While picture a cherry tree in downtown Havana Hibiya park, Kenji Tokumono, 45, says EfE that this spring “hanami” is a party, unlike last...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – A study on hundreds of families with autism revealed that spontaneous mutations can occur in the sperm or the egg of the parents that increase the risk of a child developing the disorder. Parents are four times more likely than mothers to move these mutations to their children, reported scientists. The results of three new studies published in the journal Nature, suggest that mutations in the part of the gene that encodes proteins – called the exoma – play an important role in autism. And while these genetic errors can occur in the genetic code, and many would be harmless, can cause major problems when they occur in parts of the genome necessary for the development of the brain. One of the three teams found that these errors would lead to between five and 20 times higher risk of developing autism. “These results confirm that it is not the size of the genetic anomaly that bestows the risk, but its location,” said Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental health, part of the national institutes of Health’s United States, it funded a research. Among other findings, the team – led by Mark Daly of the Massachusetts Institute of technology, Dr. Matthew State of Yale University and Evan Eichler of the University of Washington in Seattle – identified several hundred new suspicious gene that...
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parents are four times more likely that mothers to move these mutations to their children, reported scientists. The results of three new studies published in the journal Nature, suggest that mutations in the part of the gene that encodes proteins – called the exoma – play an important role in autism. And while these errors can occur in the genetic code, and many would be harmless, can cause major problems when they occur in parts of the genome necessary for the development of the brain. One of the three teams found that these errors would lead to between five and 20 times higher risk of developing autism. “These results confirm that it is not the size of the genetic anomaly that bestows the risk, but its location,” said Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental health, part of the national institutes of health of the United States, it funded a research. Among other findings, the team – led by Mark Daly of the Massachusetts Institute of technology, Dr. Matthew State of Yale University and Evan Eichler of the University of Washington in Seattle – identified several hundred new suspicious gene that could lead to new targets for the treatment of autism. Many of the researchers were part of the so-called collaboration for the sequencing of autism, the greatest effort in its kind for using advanced genetic...
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