Health & Science

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Saturday, April 13th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

  Ecuador's govt issues guidelines for application of euthanasia

  

  Ecuador's conservative government of President Daniel Noboa Friday issued the guidelines for the implementation of euthanasia following the Constitutional Court's (CC) instructions in a ruling granting the request of 42-year-old amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient Paola Roldán who died on March 11. The malady is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2024 - 11:05 UTC

  “God Particle” Nobel prize winner, Professor Higgs has died at 94

  

  The University of Edinburgh reported on Tuesday that Nobel winner Peter Higgs, the man who gave rise to the “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94.