No birth-weight link from AIDS drugs found
American doctors routinely prescribe anti-retroviral drug cocktails to pregnant women infected with the AIDS virus, despite nagging fears that the medicines might result in premature of low
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Eye drops found to aid in glaucoma
Prescription eye drops used to treat elevated pressure inside the eye can delay or possibly prevent the onset of glaucoma, according to a new study. While many ophthalmologists have been giving the
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Blaming 'the bureaucracy'
Poor President Bush. First his own campaign staff thoughtlessly included atmosphere warming carbon dioxide in a list of power plant pollutants he promised to seek to control through mandatory caps of
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Soviet report appears to reveal open-air test in 1971 of smallpox as biological weapon
In the summer of 1971, the Soviet Union apparently conducted an open-air test of a biological weapon containing smallpox virus. The experiment caused a smallpox outbreak massive vaccination campaign
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Pakistan's bonded labor-brutal, illegal and pervasive
Covered with sweat and grime, the teenage boys, old men and women who stoked the kiln were working almost literally in an inferno as they lifted the cover off a small hole and dropped in coal. This
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The rebel : For Honda, it's easy being green
When it comes to fuel economy and the environment, there is Honda Motor Co. and there is the rest of the auto industry. The gap has come into sharp relief as battles rage over how to curb a swelling
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Bush proposes a break for utilities on air pollution controls
The Bush administration has proposed changing air pollution rules to allow utilities to upgrade power plants without being required to improve their pollution-control equipment. The utility industry
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Early 'adult' diabetes triggers serious ills
People who develop adult-diabetes as children - a once unknown condition whose prevalence is rising rapidly-can develop severe, and occasionally fatal, complications as early as their 20s, a new
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Illegal logging topples Cambodia's forests
Cambodia's forests were one of the few remaining valuable resources of a country impoverished by a generation of civil war, Khmer Roughe tyranny and Vietnamese occupation. Yet they have been
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Virus fells children in Hong Kong
More than 30 children in a Hong Kong kindergarten have contracted hand, foot and mouth disease, a Health Department spokesman said. The department was first told of the outbreak, and the number of