Noticias de Hoy

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it’s possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? It’s one part of the new health care law that seemed clear: free coverage for preventive care under most insurance plans.

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CHICAGO (AP) ? Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher wearing 3D glasses can do all that and more.

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ATLANTA (AP) ? You may not be a disease detective, but now you can play one at home.

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CHICAGO (AP) ? Robotic surgery is increasingly being used for women’s hysterectomies, adding at least $2,000 to the cost without offering much benefit over less high-tech methods, a study found.

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CHICAGO (AP) ? Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Take another sip of that Diet Coke – a new study suggests diet soda drinkers don’t eat any more sugary or fatty foods than people who stick with water instead. Some researchers have proposed drinks sweetened with fake sugar might disrupt hormones involved in hunger and satiety cues – causing people to eat more. Others hypothesized diet beverages could boost the drinker’s preference for sweet tastes, translating to more munching on high-calorie desserts. . . .

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CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro would win a presidential vote should his boss Hugo Chavez’s cancer force him out, according to the first survey this year on such a scenario in the South American OPEC nation. Local pollster Hinterlaces gave Maduro 50 percent of potential votes, compared to 36 percent for opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Chavez made a surprise return to Venezuela on Monday, more than two months after cancer surgery in Cuba, to continue treatment at home for the disease that is jeopardizing his 14-year socialist rule. . . .

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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, Feb 19 (Reuters) – A tearful funeral was held on Tuesday for model and law school graduate Reeva Steenkamp, with mourners calling for a harsh penalty for her boyfriend, Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius, who has been charged with her murder. Steenkamp’s body was transported in a black hearse to a crematorium in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth for a private ceremony. “Without a doubt. He’s a danger to the public. He’ll be a danger to witnesses. He must stay in jail. . . .

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LONDON (Reuters) – A new virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and has killed five people is well adapted to infecting humans but could potentially be treated with drugs that boost the immune system, scientists said on Tuesday. The virus, called novel coronavirus or NCoV, is from the same family as the common cold and as SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. There have been 12 confirmed cases worldwide – including in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Britain – and five patients have died. . . .

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