Saturday, November 7, 2015

Last Top Stories: Tensión política en Hialeah por presunto cruce entre concejal y empresario inmobiliario | El Nuevo Herald

  • Tensión política en Hialeah por presunto cruce entre concejal y empresario inmobiliario | El Nuevo Herald

    Cuando la presidenta del Concejo de Hialeah, Isis García-Martínez, se acercó a saludar al empresario Martín Caparros, la noche del martes, durante el festejo por la reelección de los concejales José Caragol y Vivian Casals-Muñoz, un hombre le cerró el paso y le dijo que no la querían ahí.García-Martínez retrocedió y luego Caparros levantó el pulgar y le apuntó con el índice a manera de un ‘disparo’ simbólico contra la concejal que hace casi cinco meses votó en contra del millonario proyecto inmobiliario de ese empresario, describieron tres fuentes municipales que pidieron no ser identificadas.Poco después, García-Martínez optó por retirarse del patio donde se realizaba la fiesta. Acompañada ..
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  • Politicians and Dade Medical College's Perez: friends to the end

    Five weeks before for-profit Dade Medical College collapsed, the liquor was still flowing.It was open bar at a ribbon-cutting for a new outdoor terrace at Dade Medical’s smaller affiliate school, the University of Southernmost Florida. The location: downtown Coral Gables.There were hors d’oeuvres. There was paella. And there were politicians.Ernesto Perez, Dade Medical’s principal owner, donated big to scores of political campaigns, sometimes backing both candidates for the same seat. He steered jobs and contractual work to nearly a dozen local politicians, and invited them and their colleagues to events like this one. In those moments, Perez made it a point to shootphotosof himself with the..
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  • Senate Offers To Add Support For Kids With Disabilities

    Senate Offers To Add Support For Kids With Disabilities
    Follow CBSMIAMI.COM:Facebook|TwitterTALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) — A Florida Senate panel is looking at ways to help Early Steps, a program that serves young children with developmental disabilities, yet has been struggling to keep up with the growing demand for its services in the state.A new report, presented this week to the Senate Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee, shows that job cuts at Early Steps have kept the program from meeting federal standards for timely and quality services.Those benchmarks are crucial because the younger that children are diagnosed and treated for disabilities and delays, the greater the chance they’ll reach school age ready to learn.“Experts conside..
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  • Junk Food: Obesity Not Caused By Junk Food, Researchers Say

    Junk Food: Obesity Not Caused By Junk Food, Researchers Say
    Junk Food: Obesity Not Caused By Junk Food, Researchers SayResearchers found that eating junk food did not influence a person's body mass index.BySuzette Gutierrez| Nov 06, 2015 11:47 PM EST The results of the study surprisingly showed that eating junk food was not responsible for the study participants' weight gain. (Photo : Google Commons) Junk food is often viewed as the reason behind the obesity epidemic in the U.S. However, a new study conducted by researchers from the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab found that junk food is not the primary reason for obesity,HealthDay reported. The researchers said that, contrary to popular belief, junk food..
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  • Most Allergy Sufferers Not Getting Relief from Over-the-Counter Meds

    Most Allergy Sufferers Not Getting Relief from Over-the-Counter Meds
    Most Allergy Sufferers Not Getting Relief from Over-the-Counter Meds by Cari Nierenberg, Live Science Contributor Date:06 November 2015 Time: 02:09 PM ET Many hay fever sufferers are turning to over-the-counter allergy medications to relieve their symptoms, but they may not be happy with the results they are getting from these medicines, a new study reveals. By comparison, fewer people treat theirseasonal allergieswith prescription medications, the researchers found. However, these patients report slightly higher levels of satisfaction with these medications, compared with users of over-the-counter al..
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  • FDA approves single-pill HIV treatment

    FDA approves single-pill HIV treatment
    SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov. 6 (UPI) --The U.S.Food and Drug Administrationannounced today its approval of a new all-in-one pill to treatHIVpatients that includes a new version of the drug tenofovir, which researchers think will help reduce side effects from the multi-drug regimens used for HIV.The pill, called Genvoya, includes doses of elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide and is meant especially for patients over age 12 who weigh at least 77 pounds and have not previously been treated for HIV.In addition to reducing side effects, the drug also was associated with less kidney toxicity and fewer reductions in bone density credited to other drugs that contain tenofovi..
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  • Massachusetts Woman Gives Birth, Didn't Realize She Was Pregnant

    Massachusetts Woman Gives Birth, Didn't Realize She Was Pregnant
    BySheila Cosgrove Baylis@sheilabot11/06/2015 AT 03:40 PM ESTA woman in Massachusetts gave birth to an 8-lb. baby girl Wednesday after going to the hospital for abdominal pain. Judy Brown had no idea she was in labor when she arrived at the hospital. But that's when doctors told her, " 'It's good news: There's no blockage. You are pregnant and you are going to have her now!' " according toWCVB Boston. The first-time mom, 47, told the news station she had odd symptoms but didn't know what they were. She thought her baby bump was just added weight, a side effect of getting older. "I felt like I was turning into my mother," she said. Brown and her husband, Jason, married 22..
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  • Cancer-Ridden Tapeworm Gave Man Tumors, CDC Determines

    Cancer-Ridden Tapeworm Gave Man Tumors, CDC Determines
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received an urgent call in 2013 that would forever change the way scientists think about cancer. Doctors in Medellin, Colombia, reached out to the agency for help in understanding bizarre cells they had found in biopsied lung tumors of a 41-year-old HIV-positive man.The cells, which were lumped together and melding into one another, appeared to be cancer-like in nature but none of them looked like human cancer cells.CDCParasitic tumor cells"The patient was not doing well and the Colombian doctors asked, 'can you please help us with your lab,'" Dr. Atis Muehlenbachs, a pathologist at the CDC in Atlanta, told The Huffington Post. "So we were speed..
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  • University returning $1M Coke contribution for health group

    University returning $1M Coke contribution for health group
    NEW YORK (AP) - The University of Colorado School of Medicine is returning a $1 million contribution from Coca-Cola to start a group that says it’s dedicated to ending obesity.The money was provided to establish the Global Energy Balance Network, which says it is working on an “evidence-based approach to ending obesity.” Since a New York Times story noted its funding from Coke in August, the group has been criticized for trying to play down the role sugary drinks play in fueling weight gain and instead playing up the importance for physical activity.The group’s president, James Hill, is a professor at the university.“While the network continues to advocate for good health through a balance o..
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  • Study: Teen obesity surgery benefits last at least 3 years

    Study: Teen obesity surgery benefits last at least 3 years
    The largest, longest study of teen obesity surgery shows huge weight loss and health gains can last at least three years, and many say it’s worth the risks.“I feel awesome. It’s like a new life,” said Miranda Taylor, a Cincinnati nursing student in the study who had surgery when she was 16 and weighed 265 pounds. She lost more than 100 pounds, along with severe depression, pre-diabetes and an obesity-related hormonal condition.Although she has since gained about 20 pounds, she’s still healthy and has surpassed her initial goal of fitting into size 16 jeans — she wears size 14.“I knew that this might not get me down to like model-size, which I wasn’t concerned about. I just wanted to be able ..
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