News tagged with venezuela
Cholera cases climb to 111 in Venezuela
(AP) -- The number of cholera cases has jumped to 111 in Venezuela as more people tested positive after attending a wedding with contaminated food in the Dominican Republic, the country's health minister said Friday.
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Venezuela passes media, Internet-muzzling law
The Venezuelan parliament passed a law banning for the first time Internet content that promotes social unrest, challenges authority or condones crime, fueling outrage by the opposition.
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Venezuela reports first swine flu case
(AP) -- Venezuela's health ministry is reporting the country's first swine flu case: a 22-year-old man who arrived on a flight from Panama earlier this week.
May 29, 2009 |
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Venezuela unveils 14-dollar mobile phone
Venezuela is to start selling in May a mobile phone it is billing as one of the world's cheapest: a 14-dollar handset that includes an MP3 player, radio and camera.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Mild cognitive impairment is associated with disability and neuropsychiatric symptoms
In low- and middle-income countries, mild cognitive impairment—an intermediate state between normal signs of cognitive aging, such as becoming increasingly forgetful, and dementia, which may or may not progress—is ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Venezuelans line up to switch PIP breast implants
(AP) -- The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, housewives in their 40s, middle-class office workers: nearly all are ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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For most Mexicans, the digital age is still out of reach
Israel Vasquez, 12, has no computer or Internet access at home, but he needs both to do his homework.
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Brazil to pay for removal of defective breast implants
The government said Thursday it would pay for surgery on Brazilian women to remove defective French-made and Dutch-made breast implants.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Dutch urge removal of faulty PIP breast implants
Dutch health authorities on Wednesday recommended the removal of breast implants made by now-defunct French company PIP after conflicting reports about the product's safety.
Jan 11, 2012 |
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New study: Cholera in Haiti tracked more rapidly by social media than traditional methods
Internet-based news and Twitter feeds were faster than traditional sources at detecting the onset and progression of the cholera epidemic in post-earthquake Haiti that has already killed more than 6500 people and sickened ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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French breast implant scare reaches around the world
Hundreds of thousands of women in more than 65 countries, mainly in South America and western Europe, have received breast implants that are at the centre of a health scare.
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Germans, Czechs warn on French breasts implants
Germany and the Czech Republic advised women Friday to have potentially faulty breast implants made by French firm PIP removed, but Britain said it was not convinced of the need.
Jan 06, 2012 |
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France vows probe into breast implant failures
France vowed on Tuesday to investigate failures to detect faults with the French-made breast implants at the centre of a global health scare, as a senior lawmaker urged a full parliamentary probe.
Jan 03, 2012 |
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Paraguay confirms new foot-and-mouth outbreak
Major beef exporter Paraguay confirmed a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease Tuesday in the north of the country, four days after lifting a state of emergency imposed in the region in September.
Jan 03, 2012 |
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