Health & Science

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Double burden of undernutrition, rapidly expanding in Latin America among children and women

  

  Low and middle-income countries risk seeing their development progress slashed by the double-edged sword of obesity and under-nutrition, both caused by a lack of access to affordable healthy food, a report in The Lancet warned on Monday.

• Monday, December 16th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Antarctica seabed survey identifies the deepest point on earth

  

  A group of glaciologists discovered the deepest point on land under an Antarctic glacier. Among other findings of BedMachine Antarctica, a mapping project for the white continent, glaciologists said one of the most striking ones was finding “the world’s deepest land canyon below Denman Glacier in East Antarctica.”

• Monday, December 16th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Smoke choked Sydney facing a “public health emergency”

  

  Australia's biggest city is facing a “public health emergency” over the bushfire smoke that has choked Sydney for weeks, leading doctors warned on Monday after hospitals reported a dramatic spike in casualty department visits.

• Thursday, December 5th 2019 - 10:58 UTC

  Discovery of WW1 German Battlecruiser SMS Scharnhorst in Falklands waters

  

  The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to announce that the wreck of SMS Scharnhorst has been located off the Falkland Islands. The Scharnhorst, an armoured battle-cruiser and the flagship of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee’s East Asia Squadron, was sunk on 8 December 1914 during the Battle of the Falkland Islands, a crucial naval battle in the early days of the First World War.

• Thursday, December 5th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Suddenly out of the deep sea gloom emerged the mighty Scharnhorst with her great guns poking in every direction

  

  Mensun Bound, the leader of the mission which discovered the flagship of Admiral Graf von Spee's squadron, was born in the Falkland Islands and since a child has been obsessed with the sea, its mysteries, myths and the great Battle of the Falkland Islands, a decisive naval action at the start of the Great War of 1914.

• Wednesday, December 4th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Brazil approves the sale of cannabis-based products for medical use

  

  Brazil's health watchdog on Tuesday approved the sale of cannabis-based products for medical use in pharmacies to people with a prescription. The regulation, which takes effect in the coming months, also allows for the manufacture of such products in a laboratory, the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) said in a statement.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Death rate increase among working age Americans: stress, health care costs...?

  

  After rising for decades, life expectancy in the U.S. decreased for three straight years, driven by higher rates of death among middle-aged Americans, a new study suggests.

• Friday, November 22nd 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  French winemakers' lobby convince Macron to forget about a 'Dry January'

  

  The French government has quietly abandoned a campaign urging people to refrain from drinking alcohol in January after winemakers pushed President Emmanuel Macron to drop a plan they say promotes “total abstinence”.

• Friday, November 22nd 2019 - 07:16 UTC

  Stand up and exercise, WHO tells adolescents in its latest report on obesity

  

  Teenagers worldwide are jeopardizing their health by failing to get enough exercise to reduce their risk of obesity and cardiovascular diseases, a World Health Organization-led study released on Friday warns.

• Thursday, November 21st 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Biogen, Novartis, Teva involved in major kickback controversy with US Medicare

  

  A Florida-based charity will pay US$4 million to resolve claims that it acted as a conduit for companies including Biogen Inc and Novartis AG to pay kickbacks to Medicare patients using their high-priced multiple sclerosis drugs, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.