Reaching remote areas still in need of aid
Despite increasing amounts of humanitarian aid reaching typhoon-hit areas of the Philippines, MSF teams are still finding villages and towns that have not yet received any aid. MSF’s teams are working in hospitals, running mobile clinics, providing mental healthcare, distributing essential relief items and clean drinking water. In Guiuan, Samar Island, MSF set up a 40-bed tent hospital, distributed 1,200 tents and is providing potable water to over 20,000 people. In the city of Tacloban, Leyte Island, MSF set up a 45-bed inflatable hospital. Philippines © Yann Libessart/MSFSetting up the MSF inflatable hospital in Ta...
Source: MSF News - November 26, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Philippines NEWS Frontpage Natural Disaster Source Type: news

Uganda: Kagoya Has Birthed Hope for Mothers in Buyinja
[New Vision]When Aida Kagoya joined Buyinja health centre, deliveries were done by the light of tadooba and mobile phones popularly referred to as katorchi. Six years later, she has transformed it into a place expectant mothers are eager to come to, George Bita writes
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - September 10, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news

Intracoronary ReoPro No Help at 1 Year (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- For patients with an acute ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI), intracoronary administration of abciximab (ReoPro) in the catheterization lab does not improve clinical outcomes, 1-year results of the AIDA STEMI trial confirmed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - July 11, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Tim Peake: Next stop Mars! | Aida Edemariam
It's been quite a week for Britain's first official astronaut. Meeting the prime minister, a press scrum at the Science Museum; and an agonising interview with Jeremy Paxman. How did he cope?There is something about human space flight that simultaneously feels both entirely futuristic and of the past; a future written into stories and dreams of the mid-20th century, rather than of the 21st. Britain's first official astronaut, after all, was born two years after the moon landing in 1969. "Eugene Cernan was the last person on the moon," adds Major Tim Peake, who was chosen this week for a mission to the International Space S...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 25, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Aida Edemariam Tags: The Guardian Features UK news International Space Station Interviews European Space Agency Science Source Type: news

Argentina to Legalise Surrogate Motherhood
Argentina is set to become the first country in Latin America to legalise surrogate motherhood as an option for heterosexual and homosexual couples or single people who cannot conceive but want to have a child who is biologically their own. “It’s been one of the hardest topics in family law,” Marisa Herrera, a lawyer who participated in a thorough reform of the civil code created in 1869, told IPS. Groups of experts worked on redrafting it under the direction of the Supreme Court, following a proposal by President Cristina Fernández. The project was presented to Congress in early March, and if approved a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Stephanie Wildes Tags: Development & Aid Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Latin America & the Caribbean Population Regional Categories Women's Health Reproductive Rights Surrogate Pregnancy Source Type: news

Asteroids and how to deflect them | Stuart Clark
Friday's Russian meteorite strike gives studies of ways to knock dangerous asteroids off course an added urgencyScience fiction author Larry Niven once joked: "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space programme." He meant that if we see an asteroid heading our way, we can launch a rocket to intercept it. But just how do we deflect an asteroid?Alan Fitzsimmons, University of Belfast, is part of a European Union project called NEOShield. It studies the ways in which dangerous asteroids could be deflected."There are three ways to deflect a dangerous asteroid: the gently pull, the swift kick and nuking it,...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 18, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Stuart Clark Tags: Nasa Astronomy guardian.co.uk Meteors Editorial Asteroids European Space Agency Science Source Type: news

The genius of Jodie Foster's speech
Jodie Foster's 'coming out' speech at the Golden Globes was beautiful. And it wasn't just what she said that impressed her audience, but the clever, elegant way she used the power of rhetoric to get her point acrossReading this on mobile? Click here to view the videoIt's a considerable thing to deliver a speech that is at once artfully put together and emotionally affecting. At the Golden Globes – where in accepting the Cecil B DeMille award for lifetime achievement, she made the first public acknowledgement of her sexuality – Jodie Foster managed both. What's striking is not what the speech gave away, but the control ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 14, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Sam Leith Tags: The Guardian Sexuality Awards and prizes Culture World news Jodie Foster Society Language Features Film Golden Globes 2013 Source Type: news

Aida Edemariam: Let's not link eye colour with intelligence
A brown-eyed person such as myself could feel stupid for not seeing the link between a person's eye-colour and their mental capacity - except that it seems the scientists involved can't see it either. "It is just observed, rather than explained," says Joanna Rowe, professor emeritus (eye colour unknown). "There's no scientific answer yet."This "research" calls to mind a famous exercise conducted by an Iowa schoolteacher called Jane Elliott the day after Martin Luther King was killed. She divided her class of third graders into a blue-eyed group and a brown-eyed group, and informed first one and then the other that they wer...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 21, 2007 Category: Science Authors: Aida Edemariam Tags: Science Source Type: news

The question: Do moles mean you will live longer?
It is, on the face of it, a frankly random connection, as random as the distribution of those highly pigmented blotches - yes, often on faces (see Scarlett Johansson) - tends to be. But the answer, according to researchers at King's College, London, is yes. The effect is even quantifiable: if you have always resented your 100-plus moles, you can now take comfort from the fact that you will probably live six or seven years longer than someone with only 25 or so of the pesky things. That is, if a malignant melanoma doesn't get you first.For that was where the connection was first observed - among clinical dermatologists look...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 12, 2007 Category: Science Authors: Aida Edemariam Tags: Ageing Genetics Science Health & wellbeing Life and style UK news Society King's College London Education Higher education Research Source Type: news

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