President loses round in his abortion fight
A House panel has handed US President George W. Bush a defeat, albeit possibly a short lived one, voting to overturn an executive order that the president signed soon after taking office restricting
A House panel has handed US President George W. Bush a defeat, albeit possibly a short lived one, voting to overturn an executive order that the president signed soon after taking office restricting
In a sign that the debate on drug prices in the Third World is shifting from AIDS to other life threatening diseases, Novartis, the Swiss drug company, has agreed to cut the price significantly of a
Prime Minister Tony Blair has declared that Britain was finally "on the home straight" in the fight against foot-and-mouth disease. "We are getting the disease under control," he told a press
Until recently, potassium iodide, the preferred protection against radiation-induced thyroid cancer, has a modest following among nuclear reactor workers, survivalists and those preoccupied with the
Australia and New Zealand lamb producers have won a fight for freer access to their biggest market after the World Trade Organisation determined that U.S. trade barriers were illegal.
The Bush Administration is talking about contributing roughly $200 million to a new global AIDS fund, and wants to pump up U.S. contributions by prodding American corporations to chip in as well.
The government of Mexico is proposing its biggest tourism development in 20 years, a network of upscale marinas around Baja California, which President Vicente Fox says is critical for economic
The plants stretching their leaves toward the hot Kentucky sun in a greenhouse near here look like any other ordinary tobacco plant. They are anything but. Deep inside their cells, they are furiously
The Asian Development Bank has classified a Chinese railroad project linking the cities of Hefei and Xian as part of its anti-poverty crusade. But major beneficiaries of the $300 million loan to
An anonymous donor has pledged $100 million to Johns Hopkins University-the latest in a remarkable series of nine-figure donations to U.S. colleges-to create an institute devoted to finding a new