AIDS drug battle deepens in Africa
An Indian maker of generic drugs has asked South Africa to give the company the right to sell eight AIDS drugs currently available only from their patent holding multinational corporations at high
An Indian maker of generic drugs has asked South Africa to give the company the right to sell eight AIDS drugs currently available only from their patent holding multinational corporations at high
A recent, preliminary estimate puts the population of endangered mountain gorilla in Volcano National Park, Rwanda at 358, up from 324 in 1989, when the last full census was possible. The increase
A dozen elephants from Lampang (Thailand) village had already been killed by land mines as encroaching farmland edged loggers and their beasts of burden deeper and deeper into the jungle battlefields
To regain protected forest land, loggers may have deliberately wiped out 22 million Monarch Butterflies that migrate annually from Canada to Mexico for the winter, according to a prominent
Heavy users of methamphetamine-the highly addictive stimulant that can be made at home in a kitchen sink-are doing more damage to their brains than scientists had thought, according to the first
This would-be city of the future has begun construction on what it hopes will be the world's first commercial rail road to make successful use of magnetic levitation. The new line is intended to
The US Senate has voted to repeal new rules that President Bill Clinton issued four months ago with the aim of protecting tens of millions of Americans from workplace injuries.
Thirteen more cases of foot-and-mouth disease have been confirmed in Britain, bringing the national total to more than 120, the chief veterinary officer said.
A European Union panel concluded that depleted uranium in armor-piercing weapons used by NATO in Kosovo had no detectable effect on human health. The conclusion concurred with the alliance's own
The New England Journal of Medicine published the disheartening results of a careful study to determine whether fetal nerve cell transplants can help patients with Parkinson's disease. It is a