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Conservation involves much more than reducing deforestation

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New drug combination ‘speeds TB recovery’

Adding the antibiotic moxifloxacin to a TB drug combination could reduce treatment to just four months, say researchers.

28/09/07

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Science journalism faces ‘new rules’

Science journalists are battling against moral and political agendas, say reporters at the World Conference of Science Journalists.

17/04/07

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Wood stoves are big culprits in climate change

Wood stoves produce twice as much soot as previously thought, contributing more than expected to global warming, say scientists.

27/10/06

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Great demand for ‘ask the expert’ health website

The team behind a Spanish-language website that answers readers' questions about HIV/AIDS and hepatitis say the initiative should be ...

04/07/06

Paula Leighton

Paula Leighton

Profile

Paula Leighton is a journalist based in Santiago, Chile and since 2004 writes articles for SciDev.Net. She was assistant coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean for seven years in editing and coordination tasks.

Currently, she works for the Health, Science and Technology page at newspaper El Mercurio. She has also worked as editor for the Health, Science and Technology section of newspaper La Tercera, and also as a reporter and scriptwriter for TV series about science in Chile, like Enlaces for Televisión Nacional, and Discovery Channel-Latin America.

Paula holds a master of science degree in electronic media from Oxford Brooks University (UK), as a Chevening Scholar from British Council.

Contact details: [email protected]

Location: Santiago (Chile).

Languages spoken: Spanish, English.

Areas of interest: Health, science, environment.

Local/Demographic Interests: Chile, Latin America.

Professional memberships: Chilean Association of Scientific Journalists; Board Member of the Citizen Science Foundation.

Job Title: Freelance journalist