Noticias de Hoy

MADRID/CARACAS (Reuters) – Spain’s influential El Pais newspaper apologized on Thursday for splashing a "false photo" of Venezuela’s cancer-stricken leader Hugo Chavez on its front page, prompting a furious response from the government in Caracas, which vowed to take legal action. Within minutes of posting the image online as a global exclusive, El Pais said it had discovered from social media that the photo was not of Chavez. It removed it from its website and withdrew its print edition. . . .

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties in President Barack Obama’s health care law, according to experts who are just now teasing out the potential impact of a little-noted provision in the massive legislation.

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NEW YORK (AP) ? A new strain of stomach bug sweeping the globe is taking over in the U. S. , health officials say.

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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) ? The U. N. ‘s top population official wants governments to do more to ensure that women have access to family planning.

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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – The jury is still out on the benefits of increasing "good" HDL cholesterol, but the strategy remains worth pursuing, despite recent setbacks, the chief executive of Merck & Co said on Thursday. Confidence in the HDL thesis suffered a fresh blow last month when a major clinical trial of Merck’s Tredaptive medicine failed. That followed earlier failures with two other HDL-boosting drugs from Pfizer and Roche. . . .

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? International scientists who last year halted controversial research with the deadly bird flu say they are resuming their work as countries adopt new rules to ensure safety.

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Smoke like a man, die like a man.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? A group of Utah doctors is declaring a health emergency over the Salt Lake City area’s lingering air pollution problem.

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(Reuters) – Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc said its experimental drug for a rare sleep disorder proved effective in a second late-stage trial, and the company now plans to apply for a U. S. approval for the drug in mid-2013. The study, named Reset, was a 20-patient trial designed to test the maintenance effect of a 20 mg dose of the drug, tasimelteon. Vanda on December 18 said the drug performed better than a placebo in the first of the four planned late-stage trials on the drug. The company’s shares rose as much as 37 percent on that day. . . .

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NEW YORK (AP) ? Opponents of the city’s limit on the size of sugary drinks are raising questions of racial fairness alongside other complaints as the novel restriction faces a court test.

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