Noticias de Hoy

SANTIAGO/CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has overcome a respiratory infection, but is still being treated for breathing problems after cancer surgery in Cuba last month, a government minister said on Saturday. Official statements have sounded upbeat about the socialist president’s condition in recent weeks, following rumors he was gravely ill in a hospital in Havana and might be unable to keep governing after being re-elected in October to a third term. . . .

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Jan 26 (Reuters) – An attorney for Lance Armstrong said the disgraced cyclist will not meet the U. S. Anti-Doping Agency’s deadline for him to answer questions under oath, and suggested his client would rather participate in international efforts to “clear the air. ” In a letter to the USADA dated on Friday, attorney Timothy Herman said that while the athlete is willing to cooperate with the agency, its request to interview him in the next two weeks “cannot be accommodated. ” Herman blamed pre-existing obligations. The USADA set a Feb. . . .

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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Beef containing horse DNA that was supplied by an Irish company to major food companies like Tesco and Burger King originated in Poland, Ireland’s agriculture department said on Saturday. The British food industry has been rocked by the revelation retailers sold beef products that contained horse DNA, a scandal that has also left Ireland’s 2 billion euros ($2. 6 billion) beef industry reeling from the knock-on effects. Results of tests showed that Polish ingredients used by Irish burger manufacturer Silvercrest contained 4. . . .

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NEW YORK (AP) ? Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die?

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A new strain of norovirus that wreaks havoc on people?s stomachs is so vicious that it?s being called a ?superbug? by doctors. Though it was first identified in Australia, this norovirus ? also called the Sydney strain ? is quickly spreading across the United States. . . .

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A California jury heard opening statements Friday in a lawsuit that accuses Johnson & Johnson of knowingly marketing a faulty hip implant that lawyers say left thousands of people with crippling problems or in need of replacement surgeries.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Gay people in the United States are just as likely as heterosexuals to experience domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking, and bisexual women are more likely than other women to be abused, federal health experts said on Friday. Until now, little had been known about how often violence occurred among gays and bisexuals in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said of its findings. The CDC said its report offered the first national data on the issue. “We know that violence affects everyone, regardless of sexual orientation. . . .

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ? Cambodia on Friday reported three new human cases of bird flu, two of them fatal, in the first three weeks of this year. That’s as many cases as the Southeast Asian country reported in all of 2012.

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chicken sold to KFC’s parent Yum Brands Inc in China contained excessive levels of chemicals, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, escalating a month-long food scare that has hit Yum’s sales in its biggest market. The Shanghai Municipal Food Safety Committee said KFC’s checks on its suppliers were lax, and that it found excessive levels of chemical residue in some of the fast food chain’s supplies, the report said. The investigation has now been passed to authorities where the suppliers are based, Xinhua said, without elaborating. . . .

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