Noticias de Hoy

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is improving after a cancer operation in Cuba and has started exercising, officials said on Monday, amid doubts over whether the former soldier is in good enough health to continue governing. Vice President Nicolas Maduro said he had spoken by phone with Chavez, who was walking and doing exercises as part of his treatment. "We’ve gotten the best present we could get this Christmas: a phone call from our commander president," Maduro said on state television. . . .

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CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s condition has "improved slightly" after a cancer operation in Cuba, the information minister said on Monday, amid doubts over whether the former soldier is in good enough health to continue governing. "The patient has shown a slight improvement in his condition," Venezuelan Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said during a terse televised statement, adding the president has maintained contact with family members. . . .

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COMMENTARY | New research has uncovered that mutations in the PPM1D gene is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Unlike BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, the PPM1D mutation is not inherited. Instead, the mutation only shows up in the blood when breast cancer or ovarian cancer is present. Medical News Today quotes professor Nazneen Raham as saying, “This is one of our most interesting and exciting discoveries. ”

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China plans to change the law to crackdown on "malicious" trademark registrations, state media said on Monday, after a series of cases in which well-know international brands and individuals have had their names or copyright misused. Foreign governments, including the United States, have for years urged China to take a stronger stand against intellectual property rights violations on products ranging from medicines to software to DVD movies. . . .

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Explainer: Naming of Parts for an Instrument of Civilian Slaughter

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OLD BRIDGE, N. J. (AP) ? For more than a month, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that the recent superstorm didn’t cause significant problems at any of the 247 Superfund toxic waste sites it’s monitoring in New York and New Jersey.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some lawmakers voiced concern on Sunday that the country would go over "the fiscal cliff" in nine days, triggering harsh spending cuts and tax hikes, and some Republicans charged that was President Barack Obama’s goal. "It’s the first time that I feel it’s more likely that we will go over the cliff than not," Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, said on CNN’s "State of the Union. " "If we allow that to happen it will be the most colossal consequential act of congressional irresponsibility in a long time, maybe ever in American history. . . .

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(Reuters) – Former President George H. W. Bush, who has been hospitalized for a month undergoing treatment for bronchitis, may not be released from a Houston hospital in time to celebrate Christmas at home as doctors had hoped. Bush, 88, remained in stable condition and doctors were optimistic he would make a full recovery, George Kovacik, a spokesman at Methodist Hospital, said in an emailed statement on Sunday. But doctors were being "extra cautious" with his care and no discharge date had been set, the statement said. . . .

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Reported by Dr. Amish Patel: Researchers have found that more than 2,000 different species of bacteria live in our umbilicus ? the medical word for belly button.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The "fiscal cliff" deadline is days away and the U. S. Congress and President Barack Obama have left town for Christmas. But even if they were still here, it wouldn’t have mattered, according to Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives. He says they were going nowhere to resolving the disagreement over how to fix the nation’s fiscal problems. Last month’s dreams of a "grand bargain" of tax hikes and spending cuts seem long gone. . . .

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