Health & Science

• 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.

• Thursday, October 13th 2011 - 05:40 UTC

  Chile ranks last for income and education in OECD report

  

  Chile was ranked last for income, education and the quality of environment, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or OECD report on well-being released Oct. 12.

• Wednesday, October 12th 2011 - 21:25 UTC

  Argentine president improving from hypotension bout resumes activities Thursday

  

  President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner showed “improvement” after suffering from a bout of hypotension Tuesday and will resume presidential activities as of Thursday, said doctors from the Government House.

• Wednesday, October 12th 2011 - 05:48 UTC

  Argentine president suspends activities because of low blood pressure

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner decided on Tuesday to cancel her attendance to a political rally due to a case of low blood pressure, her spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro announced.