Health & Science

Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Cases of dengue in mainland Chile are all imported

Chilean health authorities said that dengue fever was on the rise nationwide last week, now totaling 228 confirmed cases, none of them autochthonous (patients with no recent travel history) in Chile's mainland. Nevertheless, local experts underlined that the Aedes Aegyppti mosquito was present in the country as a result of weather abnormalities stemming from climate change.
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Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 09:54 UTC
Brazil opens insulin-producing plant

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Friday participated in the city of Nova Lima, state of Minas Gerais, in the opening of the Biomm recombinant human insulin-producing plant. The Government will purchase the entire output to make it available free of charge nationwide for diabetes patients. The facility is said to have cost around R$ 800 million (US$ 156 million) through loans from public banks. The South American country currently imports 95% of the insulin it uses. Some 15.7 million adults are said to have the malady nationwide.
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Friday, April 26th 2024 - 10:01 UTC
World Penguin Day: 9 out of 18 species breed in UK Overseas Territories, RSPB report

April 25 is World Penguin Day, from the impressive 1.2m tall Emperor Penguins of the British Antarctic Territory to the smaller, agile Southern Rockhopper Penguins of the Falkland Islands – nine out of 18 penguin species breed in the UK Overseas and British Antarctic Territories. Follows a report from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, RSPB.
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Thursday, April 25th 2024 - 06:32 UTC
Falklands' KEM Hospital modernization includes improvement of Pathology Laboratories

Following the approval by the Falkland Islands Executive Council (ExCo) on Tuesday 23 April 2024, the Directorate of Health and Social Service (DHSS) and the Public Works Department (PWD), are delighted to announce that the Phase 1 of the redevelopment of the Pathology Laboratories at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) will begin this initiative.
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Wednesday, April 24th 2024 - 20:24 UTC
PAHO and Argentine authorities join forces to tackle dengue crisis

Argentine health authorities and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have joined forces to devise a strategy to tackle the outbreak of dengue fever after at least 315,000 cases have been confirmed so far this year, it was reported in Buenos Aires.
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Sunday, April 21st 2024 - 16:15 UTC
Wreckwatch Magazine special issue calls for 'decolonization' of San José treasure ship

Wreckwatch, the foremost publication dedicated to maritime archaeology, has released a groundbreaking special issue shedding light on the controversial history and future of the San José, a Spanish galleon lost off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, in 1708.
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Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 19:13 UTC
Expedition Confirms Wreck in Argentine Waters is a Submarine

By Laurence de Mello

In a significant milestone, an international Expedition team headed by the ‘Eslabon Perdido Group’ has successfully pinpointed the location of a sunken submarine, resting 4 kilometers off the Argentine coast of Necochea at a depth of 28 meters.
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Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 10:25 UTC
First shipment of Paraguayan mosquito repellent sent to Argentina

Paraguayan producers Wednesday dispatched the first shipment of mosquito repellent to Argentine, where President Javier Milei's administration opened up the borders to import this product in a move to curb black-market-like prices given the high demand stemming from the onset of a dengue fever outbreak.
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Tuesday, April 16th 2024 - 10:14 UTC
Uruguay reports 80 dengue cases in one day

Uruguayan authorities announced Monday in Montevideo that 80 new cases of dengue fever have been confirmed nationwide, 55 of them autochthonous (i.e., in patients with no recent travel history) and 25 imported.
Monday, April 15th 2024 - 21:22 UTC
Falklands celebrate close bonds with BAS and RRS Sir David Attenborough

A year ago the Falkland Islands Governor Alison Blake CMG and members of the Falklands community were welcomed onboard the state of the art icebreaker RRS Sir David Attenborough. This week the Governor invited some of the crew of the Falklands flagged Sir David Attenborough before they departed for BAS bases in Antarctica.