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(Reuters) – European Space Agency scientists faced an anxious wait on Friday to see if a probe landed on a comet has enough power left to send results of a drill down into its surface back to Earth 500 million km (300 million miles) away. Time was getting tight after the probe, released by the Rosetta spacecraft on Wednesday after a 10-year odyssey from Earth, floated away from its planned landing site. The washing machine-sized […]
In United Kingdom, a horticultural firm succeeded in developing a plant that bears both tomato and potato (tomtato). This and other news from the lighter side.
Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said that the country is ready for Ebola, adding that the Philippines has an adequate supply of protective gear.
(Reuters) — The Philae probe on Wednesday (November 12) released a close-up image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the European Space Agency (ESA) said on-board instruments are working despite the anchors not working as planned. The picture, taken with the lander’s ROLIS camera, was taken 3km away from the target during the craft’s descent. Philae’s landing marks a first in space exploration and the climax of a decade-long mission to examine up close the remnants of the birth […]
(Reuters) – The death of a nurse in Mali from Ebola promoted on Wednesday the quarantine of more than 90 people in the West African country’s capital, as the World Health Organization said the disease had now claimed at least 5,160 lives. The worst outbreak of the virus on record has ravaged the impoverished West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea and led to a global watch for cases outside the region. […]
(Reuters) – A New York doctor who has recovered from Ebola left the hospital on Tuesday and urged support for U.S. health workers treating patients in West Africa so they do not face “stigma and threats” when they return home. The discharge of Dr. Craig Spencer, who worked with Ebola patients in Guinea and had been held in isolation at Bellevue Hospital Center since he was diagnosed with the virus on Oct. 23, means no one […]
SAN FEERNANDO CITY, Nov. 11 (PIA) – The regional health department here is eyeing to put up temporary quarantine facilities for residents suspected to have contracted the ebola virus or those found exhibiting symptoms of the disease. Dr. Myrna Cabotaje, Department of Health director in Region 1, said protocol mandates that ebola suspects must be transferred to the nearest DOH ebola-referral hospitals namely the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, San Lazaro Hospital and Lung Center […]
(Reuters Health) – U.S. poison control centers received more than 17,000 calls – or about one per hour – about children who’d been exposed to chemicals in laundry detergent pods in 2012 and 2013, a new study found. Over 700 of the children were hospitalized, and one child died, researchers said. “This caught us by surprise,” said Dr. Gary Smith, the study’s lead author from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s […]
(Reuters) – U.S. and European authorities have arrested 16 suspected members of underground drugs and weapons cybermarkets this week, in addition to the alleged operator of the website known as Silk Road 2.0, Europe’s police agency Europol said on Friday. U.S. authorities said on Thursday they had shut down Silk Road 2.0, the successor website to Silk Road, an underground online drugs marketplace, and charged its alleged operator, Blake Benthall, with conspiracy to commit drug […]
(Reuters) – BMW has developed street lights equipped with sockets to charge electric cars, it said on Friday, and will run a pilot project in Munich next year that uses existing local authority lighting networks. BMW said it has made two prototype “Light and Charge” street lights which combine efficient Light Emitting Diodes (LED) with the company’s ChargeNow recharging stations for electric cars. “Seamless charging infrastructure is essential if we want to see more electric […]
Doctors and health workers formed rapid response teams that will be sent to remote areas if ever the Ebola virus enters the country.
MANILA, Oct 31 — The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday clarified that the statement “800,000 people with mental health conditions” made by the World Health Organization (WHO) was based on an estimate that is usually used in case of calamities. “During a calamity, the number of people with depression or other common mental health disorders is estimated to increase by half from a baseline of 10-20% of the affected population,” Acting Secretary Janette Loreto-Garin […]
