Health & Science

Friday, January 15th 2010 - 06:16 UTC
Jobs of the future: space pilot, human body part maker or climate change averter

Tomorrow's job hunters could be applying for the position of space pilot, human body part maker or climate change averter, according to a British government commissioned report.
Wednesday, January 13th 2010 - 21:38 UTC
Falkland Islands: Ocean Watch ‘Around the Americas’ scientists moor in Stanley

AROUND the Americas yacht Ocean Watch moored in Stanley on Monday as part of its 24,000 nautical mile journey aimed at collecting data sets in a bid to raise global awareness of the oceans.
Monday, January 11th 2010 - 13:17 UTC
Vargas Llosa calls for the decriminalizing of drugs’ consumption

Peruvian renowned writer Mario Vargas Llosa proposed “decriminalizing” consumption of drugs as a way to stop the narcotics trade, in a column published in Lima’s most influential daily El Comercio Sunday edition.
Monday, January 11th 2010 - 12:46 UTC
China will construct Bolivia’s first satellite; Morales travels to Beijing

Bolivian president Evo Morales will be travelling to China next March to sign an agreement for the construction and launching of the country’s first telecommunications satellite, reported Bolivian government sources on Sunday.
Sunday, January 3rd 2010 - 20:07 UTC
Antarctica: Sir Douglas Mawson's monoplane found

An historic monoplane - a relic of Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911-14 expedition - has been found in Antarctica thanks to freakish luck after a three-year search.
Wednesday, December 30th 2009 - 15:46 UTC
The day a young rookie doctor saved the life of super star Maradona

The Uruguayan doctor who ten years ago played a crucial role in saving the life of Argentine football star Diego Maradona, collapsed under the effects of an overdose of cocaine, revealed details of the emergency evacuation of that day, a day he will never forget.
Wednesday, December 30th 2009 - 15:31 UTC
Cannabis by product helps reduce effects of Parkinson disease medication

Researchers from Brazil’s prestigious University of Sao Paulo have discovered that marihuana contains substances which can help ease the collateral effects of medicines prescribed to patients suffering from Parkinson disease.
Tuesday, December 15th 2009 - 07:58 UTC
Dengue “yellow alert” in north-east Argentina next to Paraguay

Argentine sanitary officials from the north-eastern province of Misiones declared a “yellow alert” following reports of several cases of the mosquito transmitted dengue disease in several locations of neighbouring Paraguay.
Tuesday, December 15th 2009 - 07:57 UTC
Indigenous “medicinal plant” tourism a few miles from Punta Arenas

When most of us need digestive, analgesic, anti-inflammatory or antibiotic medicinal treatments, we walk down the street to the nearest pharmacy. When the indigenous Huilliche in the south of Chile need medicine, they stroll into the forest.
Thursday, December 10th 2009 - 07:28 UTC
Outbreak of Q-fever in Netherlands forces massive culling of goats and sheep

An estimated 15 to 20,000 goats and sheep in the Netherlands are to be slaughtered in connection with Q-fever. Dutch Ministers of Health Ab Klink and Agriculture Gerda Verburg have agreed that on infected farms where animals have not been vaccinated, all pregnant animals must be slaughtered, whether or not they have the virus.