Funding for stem cells
As the politics of embryo research squeezes President George W. Bush ever more tightly, there is talk of a compromise which would assuage both the anti-abortion groups that oppose such research and
As the politics of embryo research squeezes President George W. Bush ever more tightly, there is talk of a compromise which would assuage both the anti-abortion groups that oppose such research and
A U.S. proposal to ban blood imports from Europe has alarmed European suppliers, who say it would upset a decades-old trans-Atlantic system that provides blood to New York city and would cast a pall
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has declared a health emergency to fight dengue fever after officials confirmed hundreds of cases of a potentially lethal form of the illness.
As President George W. Bush and Congress struggle with the question of regulating embryonic stem cell research, one fact is being overlooked: Nearly two dozen states have already have laws that
Most Americans carry detectable amounts of plastics, pesticides and heavy metals in their blood and urine, a government survey has shown for the first time. Nearly all of the 27 chemicals in the
The number of Americans developing AIDS and dying from the disease appears to have leveled off, ending a dramatic drop in the toll the disease had been taking in the United States, federal health
A dozen tribesmen with picks and shovels climbed Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) on a dangerous mission to drain a crater lake that threatens their villages with massive floods. Tugging a leashed pig
Pianma 2,400 kilometers southwest of Beijing on the far edge of Yunnan Province, is one of China' s gateways into the forests of northern Burma, where for the last several years a massive,
In the battle against AIDS, it was considered a bold step, Zimbabwe would impose a 3 percent tax on personal and corporate income to pay for a national AIDS trust, which would help care for the
Senior Bush administration officials are putting pressure on the European Union to abandon new restrictions on genetically modified foods that they say could cost U.S. companies $4 billion a year and