Health & Science

• Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Abbot Laboratories will pay US$ 25 million for bribing doctors to prescribe TriCor

  

  Abbot Laboratiories AbbVie Inc will pay a total of US$25 million to resolve allegations that Abbott paid kickbacks to doctors in exchange for prescribing the cholesterol drug TriCor and promoted the medication for unapproved purposes.

• Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 06:35 UTC

  Microplastics found in the human track and stools, says medical forum in Vienna

  

  Microplastics have been found in human stools for the first time, suggesting the tiny particles may be widespread in food. The study by researchers in Austria examined eight participants (from the UK, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Japan and Russia). All of their stool samples were found to contain microplastic particles.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 08:28 UTC

  Scottish government confirms case of “mad cow” in a Aberdeenshire farm

  

  The Scottish government has confirmed a case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) on a farm in Aberdeenshire. Movement restrictions have been put in place at the farm, while further investigations are carried out, the government said in a statement.

• Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Global health organizations commit to new ways of working together for greater impact

  

  Eleven heads of the world’s leading health and development organizations signed in Berlin a landmark commitment to find new ways of working together to accelerate progress towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
  Coordinated by the World Health Organization, the initiative unites the work of 11 organizations, with others set to join in the next phase.

• Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

  Beware of Chinese manufactured vaccines: this time human rabies

  

  A Chinese vaccination firm has been fined US$ 1.3bn after it was found to have illegally produced the human rabies vaccine. Changchun Changsheng had blended different batches of vaccine fluid and used expired fluid to produce some of the batches, according to state news agency Xinhua.

• Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Tasmania “fairy” penguins mauled to death by dogs

  

  Australian Wildlife officials are investigating a suspected dog attack in Tasmania, after 58 penguins were found mauled to death. A member of the public alerted rangers to the dozens of penguin bodies strewn across a beach on the north coast of Australia's island state.

• Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 08:13 UTC

  Left hand fingers' test and a propensity to be lesbian

  

  Women whose left index and ring fingers are different lengths are more likely to be lesbians, a study suggests. Scientists measured the fingers of 18 pairs of female identical twins, where one was straight and the other gay.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 07:44 UTC

  UK Antarctic Heritage Trust announces a new Port Lockroy team for 2018/19

  

  The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) is delighted to reveal details of the quintet who will live and work at Port Lockroy on a remote island off the Antarctic Peninsula during the 2018/19 Austral Antarctic summer (November – March).

• Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 06:52 UTC

  Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft has died aged 65

  

  Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, has died aged 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He had revealed the disease's return only two weeks ago, after previously being treated for it in 2009. Allen had said he and his doctors were “optimistic” about treatment.

• Monday, October 8th 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Double purpose rocket launch: Argentine satellite for farmers and recovering first stage

  

  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Argentine satellite has blasted off from California. The primary purpose of Sunday's mission is to place the SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit, but SpaceX will also try for the first time to bring the Falcon's first stage back to a landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch site.