Japan plans to double number of whales it kills in the North Pacific under a program that it describes as scientific research but that American and some European officials say is commercial whaling.
In a desperate scavenger hunt, representatives of ImClone Systems Inc. and Bristol Myers Squibb Co. have been fanning out across the United States to hospitals and doctors officers over the last
A fast growing outbreak of dengue fever is upsetting the daily routine of urban life in Brazil's most sophisticated city leaving many thousands of people ill. Newspapers in contact with local health
Hong Kong health officials slaughtered 7000 chickens at a farm in the territory after a new outbreak of a flu virus that is a potential threat to human health, a government spokesman said.
Applying sophisticated genetic tests to batches of human eggs, doctors in Chicago have helped a 30 year old woman give birth to a baby that is free of her family's curse of early Alzheimer's disease.
As drought intensifies in the northeastern United States warm dry days followed by cold dry days-jurisdictions around the region have begun to make plans for an official drought emergency with
The Japanese government said that it would accept a court negotiated settlement with the families of 20 patients who contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from brain surgery.
Continuing to allow snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park would be a thoroughly misguided and wholly unnecessary policy initiative that favors a small group of people whom George.W Bush has in his
ImClone Systems Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. have met with the U.S Food and Drug Administration about the prospects for ImClone's cancer drug in what is believed to be the first direct meeting
Australia has signed a bilateral agreement on climate changes with the United States, raising the prospect of its formal rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, officials said. The partnership announced in
