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Montevideo, November 30th 2025 - 13:50 UTC

Health & Science

  • Thursday, November 27th 2025 - 09:28 UTC

    Brazil approves locally produced dengue vaccine

    Padilha said that the first doses could become available as early as next month

    Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has approved the final administrative step before the formal registration of the single-dose dengue vaccine developed by the São Paulo-based Butantan Institute for people aged 12 to 59, which protects against all four virus serotypes.

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  • Tuesday, November 25th 2025 - 09:04 UTC

    Argentina: Mar del Plata to fine beach smokers this summer

    Mar del Plata's move reflects a rapidly accelerating international trend to expand smoke-free policies

    The Argentine city of Mar del Plata will fine people smoking on its beaches as of Dec. 1, ending a three-year implementation period based solely on voluntary compliance. The new rules will impose significant economic penalties on trespassers outside designated areas.

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  • Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 08:48 UTC

    Argentine province back to pandemic-era measures as Covid-19 resurges

    Formosa maintains systematic Covid-19 testing, unlike the rest of the country

    The Argentine province of Formosa has confirmed a significant resurgence of Covid-19, prompting health officials to re-establish preventative measures associated with the pandemic and leading to an urgent plea to the National Government over delayed vaccine deliveries.

  • Monday, November 17th 2025 - 21:16 UTC

    Avian flu decimates seal elephant population in South Georgia; few survivors emerge in Uruguayan beaches

    Newly born pup Francine, at a beach in Piriapolis along the Uruguayan coast line

    In the last few months there have been at least twenty incidents of elephant seals emerging along Uruguayan beaches, both females and males, and allegedly they belong to “deep South species”, according to local environmental and animal protection organizations such as “FaunaMarinaSOS”.

  • Saturday, November 15th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Dominican Republic boosts border security as cholera resurges in Haiti

    Cholera was declared eliminated in Haiti in February 2022, but new infections re-emerged months later

    Authorities in the Dominican Republic have upped all border security measures after Haiti's Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), backed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and other international agencies, admitted to the spreading of a cholera outbreak, it was reported in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola on Friday.

  • Tuesday, November 11th 2025 - 09:41 UTC

    Uruguay chosen to UNESCO Board

    Montevideo's Foreign Ministry said the appointment reflected Uruguay's “historic commitment to multilateralism”

    Uruguay has secured a seat on the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for a four-year term, following an election held during the organization's 43rd General Conference in Uzbekistan. The South American country obtained 119 votes from the Member States present at the event.

  • Thursday, November 6th 2025 - 21:48 UTC

    Former Argentine VP moots euthanasia bill

    “I believe society is more mature to have this debate,” Cobos argued

    Following the approval in Uruguay of the so-called Dignified Death Act (or Euthanasia Law), former Argentine Vice President Julio César Cleto Cobos, now a Radical Civic Union (UCR) Federal Congressman from the province of Mendoza, pushed a similar initiative across the pond.

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 19:52 UTC

    Discovery Building, a milestone for Rothera Base and BAS in Antarctica

    The Discovery Building at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica. Image credit: BAM

    The 2025/2026 Antarctic season is a landmark for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and its Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization Project (AIMP), as the new Discovery Building begins to take on its operational role. Specialist teams will be on site from this month to check the building’s critical systems are working as expected and to carefully manage the removal of six older structures, the functions of which are now integrated within the Discovery Building.

  • Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:14 UTC

    All eyes on Uruguay's volunteers for euthanasia

    “I don't want to use it yet. I can write, go out when I have a companion, and enjoy a literary workshop. But I know what awaits me, and I am not willing to live through it,” Gelós said

    The cases of Uruguayan nationals Pablo Cánepa, 39, and Beatriz Gelós, 71, have swept under the limelight following the enactment of the so-called Dignified Death Law bill (or Euthanasia Law). They both suffer from conditions recognized as irreversible and have expressed their intention to seek that procedure once it is finally regulated. Their cases were even mentioned in the parliamentary debate leading to the reform.

  • Thursday, October 30th 2025 - 19:57 UTC

    Uruguay: Orsi signs euthanasia bill into law

    Until the regulatory framework is decreed, euthanasia procedures may not go through

    President Yamandú Orsi signed into law the so-called “Dignified Death” bill, also known as the euthanasia bill. Now the Uruguayan Executive Branch has 180 days to draft the decree that will officially regulate the law's application.

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