Mandela urges action on AIDS epidemic
Former President Nelson Mandela of South Africa called for urgent action on HIV and AIDS as he closed the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa describing the worldwide epidemic
Former President Nelson Mandela of South Africa called for urgent action on HIV and AIDS as he closed the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa describing the worldwide epidemic
In unusually blunt language, Pentagon officials acknowledged the failure of their ambitious policy to inoculate all military personnel against the deadly anthrax virus. At a hearing of the Senate
Among the ravages AIDS has brought to Africa is a wave of orphanhood that will continue to grow for at least a generation, according to a U.S. government study that was released. Ten years from now,
An experimental vaccine for Alzheimer's disease reverses some damaging effects of the devastating brain disorder in animals and appears safe in the first tests on humans, according to a report by
Results of three small experiments in Africa have raised hopes that state-of-the-art treatments now available only in the world's richest countries might prove usable for larger, poorer AIDS-infected
The Philippine government called an urgent meeting to discuss how to solve the country's mounting waste problem after a mountain of garbage collapsed onto squatters shanties at Manila's largest
The vast majority of cancers are not caused by inherited defects in people's genes, as many have come to believe in this age of genetics, but by environmental and behavioural factors like chemical
Scientists at the 13th international conference on AIDS are debating what to do about one of the most puzzling but potentially important findings in AIDS, namely that circumcised men are less likely
World tourism is booming, with the best known European monuments overrun and tropical islands at risk of being spoiled, Francesco Frangialli, secretary general of the World Tourism Organization says.
Federal regulators have shut down all government-funded human medical experiments at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Tulsa amid evidence that researchers there broke rules