Health & Science

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 18:54 UTC

  Mensun Bound will lecture on the discovery of “Endurance” onboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2

  

  Mensun Bound, who as Director of Exploration of the team that on March 5 discovered Sir Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ship Endurance in the Weddell Sea, will deliver talks onboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 in 2022 and 2023.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Constitutional Court greenlights medically assisted suicide in Colombia

  

  Colombia's Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled by 6 votes to 3 to decriminalize medically assisted suicide. Euthanasia in Colombia is already legal, but in this case, it is the patient and not the doctor who executes the action to end his or her life.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Buenos Aires health minister warns of possible new, milder covid-19 wave

  

  Buenos Aires City Health Minister Fernán Quirós Wednesday warned the recent increase in covid cases might be heralding “the beginning of a new wave.”

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 09:07 UTC

  Hepatitis of unknown cause: 28 cases under scrutiny in Brazil

  

  Brazil's Health Ministry Thursday announced it was following 28 cases nationwide of acute childhood hepatitis of unknown origin, which are “still under investigation.”

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  More BA.2 subvariant cases in Uruguay, but fewer deaths

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Tuesday told a group of opposition lawmakers at the Parliament that the latest data showed a sustained growth of the BA.2 subvariant of the SARS-Cov-2 Omicron strain detected in the country since February.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 07:15 UTC

  Belgian researchers find new angle to tackle SARS-CoV-2

  

  Belgian scientists have developed a mechanism that could potentially prevent the SARS-CoV-2 virus from infecting humans, according to a paper published Tuesday in Nature.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  British scientists support NASA rocket mission to uncover atmosphere secrets

  

  The British Antarctic Survey, BAS, Space Weather team are supporting a new NASA experiment which aims to uncover unique features of our atmosphere that enable life on Earth.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Slight increase in COVID-19 cases in Argentina

  

  Health authorities in Argentina have reported that the number of fatalities due to COVID-19 has tripled in Buenos Aires, while total infections have almost doubled in a week as temperatures take a downward turn.

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Cases of Covid-19 on the rise in Argentine – “monitoring” required

  

  Argentine health authorities mentioned during the weekend that the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide has been on the rise in recent weeks.

• Saturday, May 7th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  New lineage of Omicron variant circulating in Peru

  

  Peru's Health Ministry officials reported this week the finding of a new lineage of the SARS.CoV-2 Omicron variant called BA.1.22.