World gets warning on flu virus
The World Health Organization said that it had alerted influenza officials around the world to increase their preparedness in response to two human cases her ethis week of an apparently new strain of
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Critics see threat as Bush reinforces environmental stamp
For two years, it has come in bursts, on issues from arsenic to wetlands: the unfolding of what President George W.Bush, as a candidate, promised would be a new era of environmental protection.
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Critics see threat as Bush reinforces environmental stamp
For two years, it has come in bursts, on issues from arsenic to wetlands: the unfolding of what President George W.Bush, as a candidate, promised would be a new era of environmental protection.
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Bayer knew of Baycol's dangers, papers indicate
Newly disclosed company document indicate that some senior executives at Bayer AG were aware that their anti-cholesterol treatment had serious problems long before the German drug-maker pulled it
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Blair lays out an ambitious emissions cut
Prime Minister Tony Blair has laid out ambitious plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions in Britain by 60 percent in the next five decades and gently criticized President George W. Bush for failing to
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Blood-thinning drug found to prevent high-risk clotting
Low doses of a cheap blood-thinning drug can safely prevent dangerous blood clots in the veins of people who are prone to them, according to a new report by doctors. They say the findings should
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Zoloft patent is disrupted
Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd., India's second-challenged Pfizer Inc.'s patents on the antidepressant Zoloft in a lawsuit in federal court in New Jersey. Dr Reddy's, which is seeking to sell its own
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Abortion foes win court appeal of racketeering conviction
The Supreme Court has overturned a federal racketeering judgement against a coalition of anti-abortion groups that conducted a campaign of disrupting and blockading abortion clinics during the 1980s.
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Rich diets, poor health
A report published by the World Health Organisation and the Food and Agriculture Organization makes it starkly clear that the biggest threats abroad in the world are not AIDS or malaria, starvation
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Bayer executive testimony cites early doubts on Bayer
A senior executive AG has testified in court that other company executive sin the United States recommended against selling the anti-cholestrol drug Baycol several years before it was introduced in