Ig Nobles: Studies exploring use of pigeon to guide missiles among the winners
A study that explores the use of pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at separating drunk worms from sober worms were among the winners of this year’s Ig ...Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement. (AP Video shot by Rodrique Ngowi). Read more: https://bit.ly/3XF9QeS
Ig Nobles: Studies exploring use of pigeon to guide missiles among the winners
A study that explores the use of pigeons to guide missiles and one ...
A study that explores the use of pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at separating drunk worms from sober worms were among the winners of this year’s Ig ...Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement. (AP Video shot by Rodrique Ngowi). Read more: https://bit.ly/3XF9QeS
South Africa's traveling 'health train' offers rare free care to many
A passenger train transformed into a mobile health facility is ...
A passenger train transformed into a mobile health facility is offering care to communities in need across South Africa. The train, known as Phelophepa — or “good, clean, health" in ...the Sesotho language — circulates the country for much of the year, providing medical attention to the sick, young and old who often struggle to receive the care they need at crowded local clinics. Read more here: http://apne.ws/5h2YNCo
Nearly 2,000 drug plants are overdue for FDA checks after COVID delays, AP finds
An Associated Press analysis of FDA records found that government ...
An Associated Press analysis of FDA records found that government inspectors have not returned to nearly 2,000 factories due for a safety surveillance inspection. (AP Video: Shelby Lum; Mary Conlon; ...Ajit Solanki. Production: Shelby Lum). Read more: https://bit.ly/4gbCMlQ
Patients in eastern Congo are desperately waiting on mpox vaccine
As an mpox outbreak rages in the eastern Congo, patients at a clinic ...
As an mpox outbreak rages in the eastern Congo, patients at a clinic in the town of Kamituga say they are desperately waiting for vaccines. Several patients lie in agony ...in the clinic, their bodies covered in lesions.
In South Africa's richest area, mother-to-baby HIV transmission is a concern
It's a worrying question for health officials in one of the richest ...
It's a worrying question for health officials in one of the richest and most developed areas of the African continent: Why are babies being born with HIV when free medication ...is available to prevent mother-to-child transmission? In the first half of this year, 232 babies were born with HIV in South Africa's Gauteng region, which includes Johannesburg and the capital of Pretoria and is home to at least 15 million people. (AP Video by Nqobile Ntshangase) Read more here: http://apne.ws/CbDweKI
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Large-scale polio vaccinations begin in war-ravaged Gaza
Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday ...
Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that ...has been ravaged by the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. (AP Video by Abd Al Kareem Hana / AP Production by Wafaa Shurafa) Read more here: http://apne.ws/aivRtTK
From California to Israel, companies are aiming to grow cocoa in ...
From California to Israel, companies are aiming to grow cocoa in laboratories in a bid to buffer chocolate's key ingredient from climate change, which is expected to damp cacao supplies ...around the equator as soils grow drier. (AP Video/Terry Chea) Read more here: http://apne.ws/GHgz98z
Polio has been eliminated in most parts of the world, but the ...
Polio has been eliminated in most parts of the world, but the infectious disease is still spreading in a small number of countries. The recent polio infection in an unvaccinated ...baby in Gaza is the first time the disease has been reported in the territory in more than 25 years. Read more: https://bit.ly/3T60B4F