Venezuela

Chavez Threatens to Nationalize Private Hospitals in Venezuela

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to nationalise private hospitals if their owners did not reduce health care costs . Chavez made a nationally televised speech, saying that the privately owned hospitals and clinics would be made part of the public health service if they failed ...

Air Traffic Patterns Predict Swine Flu Spread

...arrivals from Mexico were Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami, Houston and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Of the top-20 destination countries, only one -- venezuela -- had no confirmed cases of swine flu as of May 25, 2009. Japan, Chile and Peru had confirmed swine flu cases, but there was no known association wit...

SOBeFiT Magazine Wins Best Magazine Launch Party at 2009 FAME Awards

... of companies in the financial, oil, cattle and ranching, construction and capital goods sectors. By 2005, the group initiated an expansion outside of venezuela upon becoming majority stockholder in Asesorias e Inversiones, a broker dealer in Colombia. That same year, ABA promoted ABA Global Fund SPC, a Cayman...

SOBeFiT Magazine Promotes its Launch With First Annual 5K Run+Walk & Fitness Festival in South Beach

... of companies in the financial, oil, cattle and ranching, construction and capital goods sectors. By 2005, the group initiated an expansion outside of venezuela upon becoming majority stockholder in Asesorias e Inversiones, a broker dealer in Colombia. That same year, ABA promoted ABA Global Fund SPC, a Cayman...

SNAP! CRACKLE! POP! Untrained Chiropractors Doing Acupuncture!

.... He has performed acupuncture anesthesia while on staff at Catskill Regional Hospital and his patients have come from as far away as Lichtenstein and venezuela after having tried western medicine and many other therapies. His view is that a medical revolution is taking place and that acupuncture is emerging...

Anniversary of Parent's Passing Can Trigger Death

...o have died within hours, weeks, months or years of each other," said the lead investigator of the study, Dr. Ivan Mendoza from Central University of venezuela in Caracas. "Physicians should be aware that mental stress, such as the anniversary effect, may induce sudden death in susceptible individuals," h...

More Vitamin D in Childhood Cuts Later Diabetes Risk

...f type 1 diabetes vary greatly, according to latitude and levels of sunlight. For example, a child in Finland is 400 times more likely than a child in venezuela to develop type 1 diabetes. The fact that pancreatic beta cells and immune cells carry receptors for the active form of vitamin D provide further p...

Medical Cost Increases to Accelerate Worldwide Over Next Five Years, Watson Wyatt Poll Finds

...6.5 % 7.1 % Mexico 12.0 % 12.8 % 12.6 % United States 8.3 % 8.0 % 11.0 % venezuela 31.3 % 25.0 % 25.0 % "Health care is fast becoming the most desired employee benefit worldwide, even in countries th...

Casey Family Programs Appoints Dr. America Bracho as New Board Member

... founder of Latino Health Access in Santa Ana, Calif., a community-based center promoting healthy living and disease prevention. Bracho is a native of venezuela where she practiced medicine for several years until she came to the U.S. to receive training in public health from the University of Michigan. She is...

Vangent, Inc. Awarded Contract to Support Military Health System's Executive Information and Decision Support Program

... as well as Fortune 500 companies. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the company has offices throughout the U.S. and in Mexico, the U.K., Canada, venezuela and Argentina. Additional information can be found at: http://www.vangent.com . ...

Venezuela in Medical Technology

Merck at ASCO 2007: Spectrum of Studies Reinforces Promise of Erbitux for Colorectal and Head and Neck Cancer Patients

...Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, the US, and venezuela for use in combination with irinotecan in patients with EGFR-expressing mCRC who have failed prior irinotecan therapy. Erbitux is also approved for si...

Venezuela in Biological News

DNA-Prokids: Genetic identification against traffic in human beings

...ch scientists and authorities from Brazil, China, Colombia, Dubai, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Spain, Thailand, USA or venezuela have already expressed interest in. DNA-Prokids is an initiative of the UGR Genetic Identification Laboratory, in cooperation with the University o...

Tropical forest carbon monitoring gets big boost

...t will support Asner's efforts to provide training and technology transfer in most tropical forest nations in the Andes-Amazon region, stretching from venezuela and Guyana across to Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia. ...

Scientists find facial scars increase attractiveness

... common with non-Western cultures than previously thought. The perception that scarring is a sign of strength is a view shared by the Yanomam tribe of venezuela for example, who use face-paint to accentuate scars that result from ritualised club fights designed to test a man's endurance against repeated strike...

New catfish species named for museum mail supervisor

...commonly known the Orinoco thicklip catfish, occurs in the Orinoco basin in venezuela and Colombia. It is a secretive fish that hides during the day in hollow lo...sts and their Venezuelan colleagues. Sabaj Prez secured more specimens from venezuela and proved that the species was distinct. Since retiring from the Academ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 28, 2008

...edwardsm@vt.edu ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Keeping beer fresher Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Scientists in venezuela are reporting an advance in the centuries-old effort to preserve the fresh taste that beer drinkers value more than any other characteristic of that p...

Using DNA, scientists hunt for the roots of the modern potato

...ope, a more widely accepted story holds that European potatoes were originally descended from plants grown high in the Andes mountains between eastern venezuela and northern Argentina. According to this theory, Andean potatoes were wiped out during the Great Irish Potato Famine, the 19th-century late-blight ep...

Colombian frog believed extinct found alive

...an species worldwide. So far, 42 of the 113 species of Atelopus found in the Tropical Andes Hotspot that includes parts of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and venezuela have experienced population declines of up to 50 percent. Frogs provide innumerable ecosystem services by consuming insects and serving as indicato...

Venezuela in Biological Technology

Cryo-Cell International, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results

...y entered into a definitive License and Royalty Agreement with Cryo-Cell de venezuela to market its U-Cord program in venezuela and to collect and ship the specimens to the Company's facility in Oldsmar,...

Who is this Adam Bock Person, Anyway?

...e Greatest of Ease Not immediately, of course. I signed up to work at Club Med as a sports instructor, and was sent to St. Lucia , just north of venezuela (that club has since been closed). I spent six months as a G.O. ( Gentil Organisateur) leading activities like rollerblading, soccer, volleyball, and ...

The New Green Revolution offers hope to poor farmers and poor consumers

... Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has donated transgenic technology for controlling the papaya ring spot virus to research institutions in Brazil, venezuela and Thailand, and provided training for scientists there. Japans International Cooperation Agency has built tissue culture facilities at an Indone...

Probe into gas gouging may educate Americans about pressures on oil supply

...ted States and has continued through the Iraq war. Many oil-producing nations are subject to supply interruptions. Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Russia and venezuela are prone to political unrest, labor strikes or government clampdowns. There have been no major crude oil discoveries in more than a decade. Also,...