Health & Science

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 22:04 UTC

  Argentine satellite for regional communications to be launched 2012

  

  Arianespace will launch the Arsat-1 satellite for Argentine satellite operator Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales Sociedad Anonima, or Arsat, in mid-2012 under a contract announced June 28 by the Evry, France-based launch services provider.

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 22:44 UTC

  Soy consumption could help with prostate cancer and baldness, say scientists

  

  Scientists have claimed that eating soy could help prevent men from developing prostate cancer and from going bald. US researchers found a molecule produced in the intestine when soy is digested stops a hormone which can fuel prostate growth or cause baldness.

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 00:33 UTC

  Falklands’ scientists detect North Pacific Ocean species in South Atlantic

  

  Deep sea fish species found in the North Pacific Ocean have mysteriously been caught in the southwest Atlantic in Falkland Islands waters. It is unclear how the animals, a giant rattail grenadier, pelagic eelpout and deep sea squid, travelled so far, according to a report by Matt Walker, Editor of Earth News.

• Friday, May 28th 2010 - 04:42 UTC

  OIE praises Mercosur for its coordinated effort in the eradication of FMD

  

  The joint work displayed by the Standing Veterinary Commission, CVP, from the Southern Cone of the Americas for the control and eradication of foot and mouth disease, FMD, has been praised as an example for other areas in the globe by the World Organization for Animal Health, OIE

• Friday, May 28th 2010 - 04:40 UTC

  Paraguay closer to achieving full free of FMD with vaccination status

  

  The World Organization for Animal Health, OIE, will examine the South American request to consider free of foot and mouth disease with vaccination the border areas of Paraguay with Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia.

• Friday, May 28th 2010 - 04:37 UTC

  Sociologists Touraine and Bauman awarded the 2010 Prince of Asturias awards

  

  French Sociologists Alain Touraine and Polish born Zygmunt Bauman received on Thursday the 2010 Prince of Asturias Awards for Communication and Humanities.

• Friday, May 28th 2010 - 04:31 UTC

  Ancestors of modern squid identified by Canadian researchers

  

  The ancestors of modern squid may have existed half a billion years ago - a lot earlier than previously thought. In a new study, Canadian researchers identified a previously unclassifiable fossil that was long believed to belong perhaps to the shrimp family.

• Monday, May 24th 2010 - 01:48 UTC

  One out of five Brazilian women under 40 have undergone abortions

  

  One out of five Brazilian women below 40 (22%) has undergone at least one abortion, according to a survey at national level by the University of Brasilia. If all the female population of the country is considered the rate drops to one in seven, 15%.

• Saturday, May 22nd 2010 - 00:29 UTC

  Ban on bi-valve molluscs extraction along Buenos Aires province coastline

  

  Argentina’s province of Buenos Aires re-confirmed on Friday the total ban of commercial, artisan and/or visitors’ extraction of bi-valve molluscs along the South Atlantic coast of the province.

• Friday, May 21st 2010 - 02:42 UTC

  Japan extends culling of animals because of ‘explosive’ spread of FMD outbreak

  

  The Japanese government has decided to put down all cows and pigs at livestock farms within 10 kilometres from the heart of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Miyazaki Prefecture, according to official sources.