Brain scans show damage in Gulf War
Brain scans of US soldiers who believe they suffer from Gulf War illness indicate that their brains were damaged by chemical exposure during the 1991 conflict, researchers reported
Brain scans of US soldiers who believe they suffer from Gulf War illness indicate that their brains were damaged by chemical exposure during the 1991 conflict, researchers reported
Is AIDS a disaster inadvertently brought on by humans that arose from early testing of a polio vaccine in Africa in the 1950's? This provocative theory seemded farfetched when it came to public
With big industrial nations struggling to agree on a framework for the next round of talks on liberalizing world trade, developing countries, which often balked at such efforts in the past, are
Joseph Stiglitz's resignation as the World Bank's chief economist removes from Washington perhaps the most outspoken voice in the debate over rich countries can best aid economic development in poor
Thousands of people on the Vanuatan island of Pentecost faced food and water shortage after a powerful earthquake followed by a tsunami struck the South Pacific nation, killing eight
Bill Gates, the multibillionaire founder of Microsoft Corp. has announced that his charitable foundation will give $750 million over the next five years to try to improve the health of young children
For most of its 17 years, Operation Smile seemed a model charity. But over the last two years, serious allegations of shoddy medical practices and questions about the charity's direction and conduct
The recipient of the largest amount of American birth control aid is Bangladesh, a Muslim country that languishes among the world's sickest, poorest and most populous. Despite a decision by U.S.
Stirring a furor among doctors and researchers who treat patients infected with the virus that causes AIDS, government officials in Johannesburg have been questioning the safety of the standard
Needle sharing among intravenous drug users has set off an explosive increase in HIV infections, with the number of new cases reported in Moscow so far this year more than four times greater than in