Liu Xiao spends her weeks visiting sludge and organic waste treatment plants across China. The travel can be tiring but as a technical and policy adviser on waste management she must help implement President
Fresenius Medical Care the German kidney dialysis company is to co-promote Aranesp, an anemia drug produced by Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology company after ending its marketing relationship
Allergan, the US medical group is to spin off its eye care division in a move that will turn it into a pure pharmaceuticals company. Allergan plans to distribute optics, which makes contact lens
The Royal society, Britain's national academy of sciences publishes a strong defense of the use of animals in research. It continues a scientific counter attack, launched last week by BioIndustry
Investors have stepped up pressure on BP(the oil group) to clarify its position on drilling in the Alaskan Arctic Wildlife Refuge and other environmentally sensitive areas.
Eastern European diplomats Yesterday expressed dismay at draft European Union plans for holding back on agricultural subsidies to future EU
The European government wants to replace production subsidies with funding for biodiversity schemes. But taxpayers may take some convincing of the merits of this : A report.
A dispute over a chemical treatment plant has caught the Asian Development Bank in a cross fire between environmental protesters and the Thai officials : A
Migros, Switzerland's largest supermarket chain, has become the first European retailer to commit itself to buying palm oil exclusively from ecologically sound sources. Tropical forests are being
The British Government's mobile phone safety task force unveiled 15 research projects Yesterday aimed at finally providing answers on the possible health risks of the handsets. Scientists hope the
"Hope is born," Bernard Kouchner, the French health minister, claimed grandiloquently yesterday as the long-awaited Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was inaugurated. Just eight
