Vienna airport deaths
Four travellers died last year from blood clots following long flights that landed in Vienna's international airport, the head of the airport's medical services
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Australia backs a blood ban
The Australian government has backed plans by the country's chief medical officer to refuse blood donations from people who lived in Britain within a certain time period and ate beef
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HIV tests ordered in Malaysia
Muslims in the southern Malaysian state of Johor who plan to marry will have to undergo tests for HIV, an official said.
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Poor countries to get medical journals free
Six giant publishing houses were to announce that they would provide free electronic access to about 1,000 medical journals to medical schools, research laboratories and government health departments
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Company hopes cloned embryos will yield stem cells
After more than a year of quiet and careful preparation, scientists at a Massachusetts biotechnology company have started a series of experiments aimed at creating cloned human embryos or embryo-like
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No high-tech food for the low-income hungry?
The agribusiness folks want their genetic technology to relieve malnutrition in the Southern Hemisphere, but last week activists from Greenpeace vandalised a plantation of genetically modified corn
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AIDS vaccine maker loses partnership with Pfizer
After more than a decade of testing, Immune Response Corp. has not produced convincing evidence that its AIDS vaccine, known as Remune, helps patients. Then the pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc.
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Deadly floods follow rain in South Korea
South Korea's heaviest rainfall in 37 years has killed 36 people and left 14 missing after floods and landslides in the center of the country this weekend, disaster prevention officials
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French may cut trees to make roads safer
The classic French image of a twin row of plane trees stretching across the countryside is in danger of disappearing because of mounting claims that they are to blame for the country's high death
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Modified food gets British backing
Britain's deputy prime minister, John Prescott, defended genetically modified food and crops and criticized "violent" protests that hamper development of the technology.