The death toll from the outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Kenya’s Wajir District has risen to 52 after four people reportedly died. According to reports, the Rift Valley fever killed three other people in neighbouring Isiolo District.
The infrared-sensitive camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft photographed a 93-mile unbroken range of nearly mile-high mountains on Saturn’s moon Titan last Oct. 25.
An electronic medical health records system launched by five major companies of US, including two Silicon Valley giants, received support from a doctors’ group and two federal agencies.
A big explosion on wednesday morning in a building on Falk Corp.’s property in the Menomonee Valley killed at least three workers. The blast, which is being blamed on a propane leak, also injured 46 workers.
Geology topics of interest include: Two New Zealand supervolcanoes that erupted only days or weeks apart; remarkably detailed K-T boundary evidence from the tropical Atlantic’s Demerara Rise supporting a single impact event; and human impact on continental erosion and sedimentation.
An environmental drama played out on the world stage in the late 18th century when a volcano killed 9,000 Icelanders and brought a famine to Egypt that reduced the population of the Nile valley by a sixth. A study by three scientists demonstrates a connection between these two widely separated events, and is the first to conclusively establish the linkage between high-latitude eruptions and the water supply in North Africa.
Earlier this year, an idea proposed by a local participant of a REACH diabetes support group was made into a Spanish-language community play to raise awareness about diabetes among the local Latino population. The play, which debuted this spring, is now returning, this time to southeast Seattle, an area disproportionately impacted by diabetes.
The veil of mystery surrounding our extinct hominid cousins, the Neanderthals, has been at least partially lifted to reveal surprising results. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) have sequenced genomic DNA from fossilized Neanderthal bones.
Loren F. Hiratzka, M.D., Cincinnati, received the American Heart Association?s 2006 Chairman?s Award, which honors excellence in volunteer service, at Sunday?s Opening Session.
Biologists have invented a chemical-free, hairdryer-like device — the LouseBuster — and conducted a study showing it eradicates head lice infestations on children by exterminating the eggs, or “nits,” and killing enough lice to prevent them from reproducing.