Health & Science

Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 00:53 UTC
UK has more obese women than any other European country: 23.9%

The UK has more obese women than any other country in Europe, according to European Union figures. Data agency Eurostat which looked at 19 countries, found nearly a quarter of UK women - 23.9% - were recorded as being obese in the year 2008 to 2009.
Just over 22% of UK men were classed as obese, coming second only to Malta.
Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 13:14 UTC
Ninety years later epic polar explorers set to rest side by side in South Georgia

“He is my other self. I love him like a brother”. Thus Ernest Shackleton spoke of Frank Wild, his friend and fellow explorer, whose ashes are soon to be laid to rest alongside Shackleton’s at the Whaler’s Graveyard in Grytviken, South Georgia, 90 years after their last great polar venture.
Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 02:50 UTC
Scientists find “sunken islands” part of super-continent Gondwana land link

Australian scientists have discovered two huge sunken islands in the Indian Ocean west of Perth. The islands, about the size of Tasmania, were once part of the super-continent Gondwana and are more than 1.5km underwater.
Wednesday, November 16th 2011 - 16:26 UTC
Paraguay criticized for its handling of the FMD outbreak

The Southern Cone Standing Veterinary Committee, CVP, accused Paraguay of not complying with promises related to foot and mouth disease, FMD, control following on the outbreak reported to the north of the country last September 18.
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.