Zika virus and Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Link between two US cases and the neurological disorder ‘Looks Strong’
From Medical Daily It’s not just microcephaly we should be worried about when it comes to the Zika virus, a new reveal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests. This past Thursday, the CDC told Time it had confirmed the…
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Cayman Islands Health City donates science equipment to local schools
Health City Cayman Islands, a state-of-the-art tertiary referral hospital, recently donated science equipment to two Grand Cayman high schools, John Gray High School in South Sound and Clifton Hunter High School in Frank Sound. The equipment, which included high quality…
GM mosquito expansion announced
From BBC A company producing GM mosquitoes says it is to open a new factory in Brazil as it expand its operations. Small-scale studies in parts of Brazil, Panama and the Cayman Islands suggest engineered sterile mosquitoes can reduce wild…
The Caribbean Voice backs call for integrated health care to tackle mental health
From Guyana Times The Draft Mental Health Strategy of Guyana 2015-2020 has confirmed that there are minimal numbers of general health human resources with the necessary mental health competencies to provide mental health services at any level of general healthcare…
10,000+ year-old mammoth bones found beneath OSU football stadium endzone
By Max Knoblauch From Mashable If a touchdown is six points and an extra point is one, how many points is the discovery of ancient mammoth bones? A construction crew renovating Reser Stadium at Oregon State University made a surprising…
First look at 2016 Hurricane Season: unusually big question marks
By Bob Henson From Weather Underground Even more than one might expect, the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up with both high- and low-end possibilities, based on preliminary thoughts released Thursday by a team at Colorado State University. The…
The truth about sex after 50/Why making love may help to fight dementia
The truth about sex after 50 From Reader’s Digest Judging from the images the popular media puts forth, you’d think sex was only for twenty somethings. Nothing is further from the truth. Sex at midlife and beyond is a subject…
Watching Coral in Little Cayman — and what It means for Caribbean reefs
From Caribbean Journal When sea temperatures rise, so-called coral bleaching can occur — that is, when corals turn pale or even white, threatening their existence. But a new project in Little Cayman in the Cayman Islands sought to explore how…
Blast from the past: Plant that once grew in Caribbean 45 MILLION years ago found in amber
By MARK WAGHORN From Daily Express UK AN extinct golden-coloured plant that grew on a Caribbean island up to 45 million years ago has been identified – trapped in amber. The fabulous flowers were intact when they were encased in…
Scientist: Caribbean whales speak with an accent, mon!
By GEOFFREY GILLER/HAKAI MAGAZINE From Virgin Islands Free Press If you want to know where someone comes from, you might listen to how they speak. Their accent or use of particular words may give you clues to their provenance. As…
