World health care
At the special UN session on AIDS last week, one of the biggest challenges the countries discussed was the creation of working health care systems. High drug prices remain a primary obstacle to
At the special UN session on AIDS last week, one of the biggest challenges the countries discussed was the creation of working health care systems. High drug prices remain a primary obstacle to
House Republican leaders have urged President George W. Bush to prohibit the spending of federal money on biomedical research that uses cells derived from human embryos. The research, they said,
Washington and Hanoi have agreed to joint research into one of the most emotive issues left between former foes, the contamination caused by wartime chemical defoliant Agent Orange, the U.S. Embassy
Surgeons in Louisville, Kentucky have announced that they had placed the first fully implantable artificial heart in a human being. The patient, whose name and gender have not been disclosed, was
As President George W. Bush nears a decision on whether the government should pay for research on stem cells derived from human embryos, his advisers are struggling to mold a compromise to satisfy
Just when America was focussed on Vice President Dick Cheney's electronic defibrillator, heart surgeons in Louisville took a much more dramatic step forward by implanting the first self-contained
Western Hemisphere nations have released the negotiating test of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas in an effort to defuse criticism that the agreement is being drafted in secret. The
New regulations expanding the legal use of medical marijuana will allow people in Canada with terminal or debilitating illnesses to possess and cultivate the drug, or to designate someone to do it
The death toll from a typhoon's rampage through the Philippines has risen to 121, with 130 injured and 44 people missing, civil defence officials
The Bush Administration has drafted a new policy that would allow states to define "an unborn child" as a person eligible for medical coverage under the Children's Health Insurance