Health & Science

Monday, November 14th 2011 - 16:38 UTC
Silent killer diabetes strikes 336 million people and keeps advancing

Diabetes will strike one in 10 adults by 2030, hampering economic growth in the world's fastest-growing economies as it kills people in their most productive years, according to a report released on World’ Diabetes Day.
Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:20 UTC
White House officially denies evidence of extraterrestrials contacting humans

The White House has said it has no evidence that extraterrestrials have ever tried to contact humans. In a blow to conspiracy theorists everywhere, a senior Barack Obama administration official also says there is also no credible information to suggest evidence of alien life is being kept from the public.
Friday, November 4th 2011 - 00:50 UTC
Russia to resume beef purchases from Paraguay

Russia has decided to resume purchases of Paraguayan beef and derivates following the foot and mouth disease, FMD, episode detected in an only farm last September and which according to Paraguayan sanitary officials was caused by a ‘human error’.
Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:27 UTC
Canada fears the virulent strain of ISA could be spreading to wild salmon

Wild-salmon advocates in Canada fear that tests showing a serious virus in one Fraser River coho and two wild sockeye salmon mean the European strain of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) could be spreading through British Columbia's wild-salmon runs.
Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 22:45 UTC
Revelations on Chavez health condition were done ‘on request from the family’

Salvador Navarrete the doctor who had to abandon Venezuela after revealing that President Hugo Chavez life expectancy is two years, because of a pelvic cancer, said he proceeded on request from members of the president’s family.
Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 22:18 UTC
Paraguayan FMD outbreak in September was caused by “human negligence”

Paraguay’s Livestock Service has confirmed that negligence in the handling of foot and mouth disease vaccines was the cause for the September FMD outbreak that forced the country to cease exports. The announcement discards doubts about the quality of the vaccines.
Monday, October 31st 2011 - 05:33 UTC
UK campaign to combat teenager over-weight with gastric balloons

British overweight teenagers in South Yorkshire could be fitted with gastric balloons, if a trial is approved. Sheffield Children's Hospital said it wanted to use the balloons to help 10 morbidly obese 13 to 18-year-olds lose weight. Those weighing between 14 and 20 stone (89kg-127kg) will be considered.
Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:41 UTC
Philip Morris shuts down plant in Uruguay because of anti-smoking policies

The US tobacco giant Philip Morris said on Friday it shut down its plant in Uruguay because the country's anti-smoking policies make business unprofitable.
Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 07:06 UTC
Chilean mountains hold the world’ largest space research infrastructure

The Chilean Foreign Ministry officially signed over a total of 213 square miles of land to the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) last Thursday to begin construction of the world’s largest optical telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).
Monday, October 17th 2011 - 06:39 UTC
Red Cross world report says there are more obese people than chronically hungry

The Red Cross has come out with a report which reveals that ironically today there are more obese people in the world compared to those who suffer from chronic hunger. The organization reports that last year there were 1.5 billion obese people compared to 925 million undernourished people.