FRANKFURT— Bayer AG’s big push into the U.S. agrochemical market with its planned acquisition of Monsanto Co. could help it offset a growing problem on its home turf: increasingly stringent European regulation.
A promising new treatment being developed to fight the deadly SARS virus will take an important step forward today when AIDS researcher David Ho meets with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in
Singapore, which hasn't had a new SARS case in the general community since April 27, reported an outbreak of fever among patients and staff at a mental hospital, a development that could dash the
A World Health Organization team gave positive marks to China's SARS containment efforts in its first report from the country's hinterland, though it cautioned that a continuing lack of detailed data
U.S. officials announced plans to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization to over-turn the European Union's ban on genetically modified agricultural products, a move that likely will
Industrial fishing practices have ravaged every one of the world's biggest and most economically important species of fish, according to a new and detailed global analysis that challenges fisheries
The Bush administration's trade record is far from spotless, as we've often pointed out. But its decision this week to file suit at WTO against the European Union's moratorium against genetically
A bizarre set of circumstances, including maintenance work on a sewage pipe and the use of overly powerful bathroom- exhaust fans, allowed SARS to spread through a Hong Kong apartment block with
Talk about fiddling while Beijing burns (with fever). Toronto's SARS relapse over the weekend notwithstanding, most places outside of Taiwan and mainland China seem to have gotton the disease under
Canadian food-inspection officials Wednesday quarantined two more Alberta farms where an animal found to have mad-cow disease had stayed but reported little progress in determining the source of the
After rousing he world's scientific community to help hunt and conquer the SARS virus, the World Health Organization is doing the same with big business, prodding companies to raise $100 million
