Researcher Angel Yanagihara captures some Hawaiian box jellyfish off the shores of Oahu. She and co-author Christie Wilcox, a postdoctoral fellow at the medical school, found that rinsing the sting ...

WAIKIKI (HawaiiNewsNow) - At least 88 people were stung by box jellyfish Wednesday morning, before Ocean Safety officials decided to close the attraction for the day. Meanwhile, about 3 people were ...

"I was really horrified at this waste of medical expertise on behalf of jellyfish stings," she recalls now. "I remember thinking, this probably wasn't the most sophisticated approach." So Yanagihara, ...

Dr. Angel Yanagihara is Hawaii's box jellyfish expert. She's researched them for 18 years and is the brains behind an innovative skin-relief product called Sting No More. "We've developed technologies ...

You may think that sharks are the most dangerous animal you’ll encounter at the beach. But in places like Hawaii, sharks, which only cause 10 human fatalities a year, are not the marine creature to ...

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Angel Yanagihara of the University of Hawaii reveals what makes the venom of the box jelly so deadly. Angel Yanagihara is Director of the Pacific Cnidaria Research Lab ...

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII University of Hawaii jellyfish researcher Angel Yanagihara, center, who accompanied swimmer Diana Nyad on her previous attempt at swimming from Cuba to Florida, helped Nyad ward ...

A new UH study is searching for the best ways to treat painful jellyfish stings. They’re looking for people willing to be paid $100 to get stung. “I just remember crying a lot and I remember they put ...

A sting from the Australian box jellyfish, the largest jellyfish species, can lead to death in as little as five minutes. A study by two University of Hawaii researchers says commonly recommended ...

An insightful cross-disciplinary team of University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa researchers, working for over a decade, published a study recently revealing that a key number of hours of darkness during ...