World Bank dissenter sticks to his guns
The outgoing chief economist of the World Bank has not relented from his criticism of the international financial community, which he accuses of excluding poor countries from the decision-making
The outgoing chief economist of the World Bank has not relented from his criticism of the international financial community, which he accuses of excluding poor countries from the decision-making
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have taken immature cells from the spinal cords of adult rats, induced them to grow and then implanted them in the gap of the severed
Women who take a commonly prescribed combination of the hormones estrogen and progesterone after menopause may increase their risk of breast cancer much more than previously suspected, according to a
The Clinton Administration has released a set of goals aimed at improving the health of the U.S. population over the next decade, even as officials acknowledged that the country had failed to meet 85
A tool against blindness : Scientists have created a strain of genetically altered rice to combat Vitamin A deficiency, the world's leading causing of blindness and a malaise that affects as many as
An international team of surgeons transplanted both hands and forearms onto a young man in a world first, hospital officials in this French city said on Friday. A team of 50 doctors and medical
As a widespread outbreak of influenza swamps hospitals and doctors' offices around the world, officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have warned that doctors appear to the relying too
Hundreds of volunteers and experts worked at cleaning beaches and tried to save endangered birds over the weekend, as oil from a pipeline leak spread over more than 16 square miles of Guanabara Bay.
Faced with rising political opposition to biotechnology, backers often stress the immense promise that the new technology holds for public health. That promise came a step closer to reality this
The Environmental Protection Agency was placed new restrictions on the cultivation of genetically modified corn, a response to concerns that gene-altered crops may be causing ecological disruption.