Sierra Leone: Guinea Extends Ebola Vaccine Trial to Sierra Leone
[Sierra Leone Government] Freetown -The Guinean Ebola Ring Vaccine Trial has been extended to Sierra Leone as a move to stop the transmission across the region. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 26, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
New Indonesian crayfish species escapes the decor market to become a freedom fighter
It might have been an unknown ornamental fish collector and dealer that captured the motley crayfish species C. snowden for the first time by the coasts of the island of New Guinea, but it was a German research team who were the first to recognize, compare, prove it as a new species and give it a name after a controversial 'American freedom fighter'. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 25, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
New Indonesian crayfish species escapes the decor market to become a freedom fighter
(Pensoft Publishers) It might have been an unknown ornamental fish collector and dealer that captured the motley crayfish species C. snowden for the first time by the coasts of the island of New Guinea, but it was the German research team, led by Christian Lukhaup who were the first to recognize, compare, prove it as a new species and give it a name after a controversial 'American freedom fighter'. Their work is published in the open-access journal ZooKeys. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 25, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Carly Fiorina Backs Maternity Leave Policy Worse Than Afghanistan's
WASHINGTON -- GOP presidential contender Carly Fiorina said on Sunday that she opposes changing federal law to require companies to provide paid maternity leave. Her position is at odds with the policies of virtually every developed country on Earth and considerably worse than the maternity leave policy in war-torn Afghanistan. The Huffington Post reached out to other Republican presidential contenders to see where they stand on mandatory paid maternity leave. None of them, including Fiorina, responded with comment by deadline. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have, more ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Liberia: Fourth Border Surveillance Meeting Ends
[NEWS] Authorities of Bong and Nimba counties in collaboration with Global communities have ended a cross border surveillance meeting for Ebola response in the Guinean town of Yomou. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 6, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: Liberia, Guinea End 4th Ebola Border Surveillance Meeting
[LINA] Liberian and Guinean authorities in collaboration with the NGO Global Communities have ended the 4th cross-border surveillance meeting on Ebola response in the Guinean town of Yomou. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 5, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Moral judgments soften with time and distance, UCLA-led study shows
New research suggests that the human mind is disturbingly flexible about moral judgments.
An international team led by UCLA anthropology professor Daniel Fessler studied members of seven disparate societies, from rural New Guinea to urban California. They found that, regardless of where they were from, people judged acts like lying, theft and assault to be wrong — but less wrong if those acts happened far away or long ago, or if an authority figure suggested the acts were acceptable.
“This troubling finding helps explain why a blind eye is often turned to atrocities that occur abroad or are sanctioned by influential in...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - August 5, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
World on the verge of an effective Ebola vaccine
Results from an interim analysis of the Guinea Phase III efficacy vaccine trial show that VSV-EBOV (Merck, Sharp & Dohme) is highly effective against Ebola. The independent body of international experts - the Data and Safety Monitoring Board – that conducted the review, advised that the trial should continue. Preliminary results from analyses of these interim data are published today in the British journal The Lancet. "This is an extremely promising development," said Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization. "The credit goes to the Guinean Government, the people living in the communities and ...
Source: WHO news - July 31, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: ebola [subject], ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola [subject], ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola [subject], ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola Source Type: news
Mental Health and Sexual Violence
July 30, 2015
By Karen Stewart, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Very early one morning a few years ago, nine-year-old Annie appeared in the waiting area at our clinic in Lae, Papua New Guinea (PNG), clutching her mother and staring at the floor. Her mother told the registrar that Annie had not spoken a word, nor attended school, in two years. She didn’t know what was wrong with Annie and wanted her tested to find out if the child had had sex. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - July 30, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Melissa Pracht Source Type: news
13 Photos To Remind Us How Amazing The Ocean Is
Did you know that 71% of the earth is covered by the ocean? Two thirds of which is still undiscovered in terms of wildlife. The ocean does a lot of amazing and essential things for us. Here's a quick short list: - Generates most of the oxygen we breathe - Helps feed us - Regulates our climate - Produces oxygen - Cleans the water we drink - Offers a pharmacopoeia of potential medicines - Provides homes for an incredible array of wildlife If this isn't enough to convince you how important it is for us to preserve the ocean as much as we can, check out these amazing Instagram photos that will. 1. @daviddoubilet - The Gre...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 28, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
One wave of migration from Siberia populated the Americas, DNA shows
Study also reveals some groups in South America have closer genetic ties to indigenous peoples of Australia, New Guinea and the Andaman Islands than to present-day Native AmericansNative American ancestors reached the new world in a single, initial migration from Siberia at most 23,000 years ago, only later differentiating into today’s distinct groups, DNA research revealed Tuesday.Most scientists agree the Americas were peopled by forefathers who crossed the Bering land and ice bridge which connected modern-day Russia and Alaska in Earth’s last glacial period. Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 22, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Agence France-Presse Tags: Evolution Americas World news Genetics Migration Native Americans Russia Science Anthropology Indigenous Australians Australia news Biology Source Type: news
There’s a New Theory About Native Americans’ Origins
New research is turning a centuries-old hypothesis about Native Americans’ origins on its head. A team of geneticists and anthropologists published an article in Science on Tuesday that traces Native Americans to a single group that settled in what’s now America far later than what scientists previously thought.
The researchers looked at sequenced DNA from bones as well as the sequenced genomes of Native American volunteers with heritage from not only the Americas but also Siberia and Oceania, says according to Rasmus Nielsen, a computational geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the ...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - July 21, 2015 Category: Science Authors: tanyabasutime Tags: Uncategorized anthropology Genetics migration Native Americans Research Science Source Type: news
Orphaned Baby Kangaroo Finds New Home With Surrogate Wallaby Mom
This is Makaia. Makaia is an 8 1/2-month-old Goodfellow's tree kangaroo who was orphaned at the Adelaide Zoo in South Australia after a tree branch crushed his mother in November. Attempting to save the little joey, caretakers rushed to transplant him to the pouch of a surrogate mother. In a move the zoo is calling a "world first," they relocated Makaia to the pouch of a yellow-foot rock wallaby, an unrelated species that has shown great success with proxy parenting. The zoo announced on Monday that it had officially saved Makaia, who will be featured in the July/August issue of Australian Geographic. "Adelaide Zoo is...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 30, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
New Guinea Flatworm, One Of The World's 'Worst' Invasive Species, Found In Florida
A worm called one of the world's "worst" invasive species by conservationists has been found in the United States for the first time, an international team of researchers announced on Tuesday. The Platydemus manokwari, also called the New Guinea flatworm, poses a major threat to the planet's snail biodiversity, according to an article published in the scientific journal PeerJ. "It is considered a danger to endemic snails wherever it has been introduced," the report states. The flatworm is thought to originate in New Guinea, but researchers say it has spread to Florida, New Caledonia, Puerto Rico, Singapore, the Solomon ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 23, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Snail-killing worm invades U.S. mainland
New study documents first cases of New Guinea flatworm in Florida (Source: ScienceNOW)
Source: ScienceNOW - June 23, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
