Health & Science

• Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Cruise ship line announces no more COVID-19 protocols onboard

  

  A leading cruise company has announced it will no longer be requiring passengers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or to wear facemasks while onboard effective October 4.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Nobel Physics Prize goes to 3 quantum mechanics researchers

  

  Quantum mechanics researchers from France, Austria, and the United States were awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell's inequalities and pioneering quantum information science,” it was announced in Stockholm by Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Rio de Janeiro records yet another monkeypox fatality

  

  State Health authorities in Rio de Janeiro Monday confirmed the second local death of a monkeypox patient. It was a 31-year-old man who had been hospitalized for over a month.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  Brazilian-developed COVID-19 vax to begin human testing

  

  A drug against Covid-19 developed at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) will begin testing with a group of 432 volunteers, it was announced Monday.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  US: Easier access increases number of calls for assistance against suicide

  

  Suicide assistance lines in the United States are going through an unprecedented 45% increase in activity in the last few months since the three-digit line made things easier por people in distress, it was reported.

• Monday, October 3rd 2022 - 18:20 UTC

  Sweden-born scientist gets Medicine Nobel Prize 40 years after his father did

  

  A Sweden-born scientist who resides in Leipzig, Germany, has been awarded Monday the 2022 Medicine Nobel Prize for his findings on prehistoric DNA.

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  Argentine authorities favor sterilization surgery starting at age 16

  

  Argentina's Health Ministry has launched a campaign aimed at enabling teenagers to have access to sterilization procedures such as a vasectomy or a tube ligation from the age of 16, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Rio de Janeiro says meningitis cases on the rise

  

  Health authorities in the Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro have announced the number of cases of meningitis recorded so far in 2022 already exceeds those detected all throughout 2021.

• Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 10:13 UTC

  Pfizer files for clearance to use booster dose on children aged 5 to 11

  

  US pharmaceutical company Pfizer has filed a request before the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week for an emergency clearance to vaccinate children aged 5 to 11 with a 10-microgram booster dose against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.

• Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Monkeypox has reached Tierra del Fuego and Magallanes Region

  

  Monkeypox has reached Tierra del Fuego and Magallanes Region in Chile. Tierra del Fuego province head of Epidemiology Office confirmed three cases in Ushuaia, one in Rio Grande and four more suspects. On the other side apparently a case has been reported in Puerto Natales, a woman who recently visited neighboring Argentina, while Chilean authorities announced that the country has enough vaccines to begin inoculation in October.