Web's market in pills is a headache for customs
The US government's seizures of imported drugs soared last year to thousands of parcels containing more than a million pills as consumers turned to on-line drugstores based overseas to seek bargains
The US government's seizures of imported drugs soared last year to thousands of parcels containing more than a million pills as consumers turned to on-line drugstores based overseas to seek bargains
For the first time, the UN Security Council has taken up a health issue-the spread of AIDS, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where the United Nations calls it "the worst infectious disease
In years of meager harvest, the population drops as villagers strike out to hunt for jobs in Bamako, the capital, or in more fertile corners of the basin. That pattern-what people call the seasonal
There is now a direct challenge to managed care in US. The issue comes down to this : Does an HMO, by linking what it pays its doctors with their success in holding down costs, ignore the best
Not so long ago, a Y2K computer catastrophe seemed inevitable. Few believed that the world's businesses, governments and technicians could band together to test hundreds of millions of computers and
With tuberculosis rampant in much of the developing world and immigration from those countries at a record high, public health officials in the United States are calling for large-scale tuberculosis
France called out the army and the state electricity company mobilized retired workers as the country continued to clean up and restore power to millions of homes after the killer storms. At least 70
A haze shrouded Hong Kong with air pollution hitting a record high as slow winds failed to disperse pollutants spewing out of local vehicles and factories in southern
The European Commission and France said they would take their battle over the safety of British beef to the European Court of Justice, placing a new cloud over the future of British meat
Tens of thousands of people in southern and central China will spend the winter in tents or abandoned buildings because they have been unable to rebuild homes destroyed in summer floods, the Red