Cayman Islands RVC Rehab Services introduces Acoustic Wave Therapy machine at CTMH
Encourages being “Fit to Take Part” for World PT Day RVC Rehab Services has been creating healthy lifestyles for over 25 years through physical therapy, massage and childbirth services. Now, RVC is pleased to introduce the next generation of non-invasive…
Brain-eating amoeba in towns’ water system
From Sky News Residents are warned as an amoeba that causes a usually fatal illness is detected in the supply of three towns in south Louisiana.10:54pm UK, Thursday 28 August 2014 A deadly amoeba that can destroy brain tissue has…
How the digital revolution can fix scientific publishing and speed up discoveries
By Daniel Marovitz From Techcrunch Editor’s note: Daniel Marovitz is CEO of Faculty of 1000. Prior to that, he was the CEO and co-founder of buzzumi, a cloud, enterprise software company. Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) publishing is big business….
Can this transform the Caribbean?
By Ivan BrowneOp-Ed Contributor From Caribbean Journal In the immortal words of Montserratian singer/songwriter, Arrow, the Caribbean is “…feelin’ hot, hot, hot!” And, that’s a good thing. With a little help from Mother Nature, the islands of the Caribbean are…
New drug makes strides in heart failure treatment, study says
By Kari Paul From Mashable Researchers announced on Saturday an experimental drug that significantly reduces the negative effects of heart failure. Some are calling it “one of the biggest potential advances” against the disease in more than 10 years. Currently…
Orange Anole on Grand Cayman
From Anole Annals This individual might have arrived on Grand Cayman with a shipment of mango trees from Florida. We have some ideas, but want to solicit input from the experts. Anole Annals is written and edited by scientists who…
Ebola vaccine will do little for current crisis
From Daily Beast The National Institute of Health announced today that human trials of the Ebola vaccine will begin next week. But it won’t be ready in time for the West Africa’s crisis. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious…
Here’s what scientists discovered when they conducted a rigorous study of pizza cheese
By Lauren F Friedman From Business Insider Nobody can ever seem to agree on which pizza is the best, so a team of scientists decided to call in an unbiased pizza-evaluation algorithm to determine how to compose a winning pie….
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Cayman Islands Weather Service launches mobile weather app
Getting caught short in an unexpected shower of rain can be a thing of the past thanks to a newly launched Cayman Islands National weather service app. The free-to-download mobile app features a simple interface giving up-to-the-minute updates on weather…
How lizard tails could help scientists study human limb regeneration
By Adam Clark Estes From Gizmodo Prosthetic technology is getting insanely good. But what if we just didn’t need it any more? What if we could simply program our genes to regrow human limbs as easily as lizards regrow lost…
