And they are exacerbated by bad management, says Simon Long AS IT SCOURS the universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, NASA has a motto-cum-mission-statement: “Follow the water”. About 70% of the human
In an apparent act of defence, Mother Nature decided to dump snow across the mid-west on April 7th
In the district of Rohtak, a fairly well-off town in northern India's farm belt, it is estimated that one in every six girls conceived is aborted. Modern ultrasound technology, coupled with a
Dozens of protesters block the entrance to a Cape Town hotel, peering into passing limousines, hoping to find Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the minister of health. Their posters proclaim that the
Malaria is unsurprisingly the most troublesome disease in Iwaya. As Anwan Soulu, a local health worker, observes, the dirty water is a breeding ground for mosquitoes. On the plus side, in Nigeria, as
While Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) grips the world's attention, the Netherlands has its hands full with a different, and even more deadly, epidemic: avian influenza. Admittedly, as the
It has been known for a long time that some cancers are caused by viruses. The idea that a virus might be used to cure a cancer, though, is a novel one. Dr Fueyo's experiments were on a type of brain
America has made no secret of its growing annoyance with the European Union's attitude to genetically modified (GM) crops. With many European consumers revolted by the thought of
A retrovirus belonging to the family of recently discovered human T-cell leukaemia viruses (HTLV), but clearly distinct from each previous isolate, has been isolated from a Caucasian patient with
That the seas are becoming overfished has been known for years. What Ransom Myers and Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have shown is just how fast things tare changing.
William Osler, one of the founders of modern medicine, observed that the best means of diagnosis was one finger in the throat and one in the rectum. Things have moved on since then, at least in rich
