Africa's woes limit reach of AIDS drugs
There are millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 70 percent of the 36 million people worldwide who are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Their lives illustrate the
There are millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 70 percent of the 36 million people worldwide who are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Their lives illustrate the
A major pharmaceutical company, Pfizer will build a center to train African doctors in the most advanced drugs available to treat AIDS, while arranging antiretroviral treatment for as many as 50,000
The South Korean government has ordered water rationing and called in 110,000 troops, a fifth of its army, to help farmers battle the worst drought in a century.
The death of an elderly Atlanta woman from the West Nile virus was the South's first reported fatality from the mosquito spread
A Greek tanker ran aground off the southeastern coast of Greece, damaging one tank and spilling 118 cubic meters of gasoline into the sea, the Merchant Marine Industry said.
President George W. Bush has threatened to veto the patients' rights bill, now on the Senate floor.
Swiss scientists say they have devised a test they could spot the human form of mad cow disease before its symptoms start to show, the British weekly Nature reports in Thursday 's
Hungary's 960,000 farms tend to be relatively small; the average farm size in the country is 163 hectares (403 acres). The large number of small farms can be credited with the profusion of storks,
Lyme disease is very difficult to catch, even from a deer tick in a Lyme-infested area, and it can easily be stopped in its tracks with a single dose of an antibiotic, a new study shows. Two other
For pushing through an ordinance banning cigarette vending machines from the streets of his small town a few hundred kilometers north of Tokyo, the World Health Organization wanted to bestow an award