What lies ahead for mad cow?
The human form of mad cow disease may peak at 100 cases a year and kill no more than a few thousand people in coming decades, according to new estimates from a highly respected group of
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Tuberculosis can go if we care
Four people die every minute somewhere in the world from tuberculosis. The ancient disease killed almost 2 million people last year.Its toll is growing rapidly in Africa and Asia because of its link
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14 patients exposed to Creutzfeldt germ
Fourteen patients at two hospitals may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the ailment that is the human form of mad cow disease, , according to an alert issued to hospitals in
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Plea ignored in China's 'Cancer Village'
Those cancer deaths in 1974 hardly seemed suspicious at the time. But over the next 27 years, almost every family in this hamlet high in the mountains of central China would lose someone to
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For India's drunks, doses of shame
Alcoholics and drug addicts are in for bad days ahead in the northestern Indian state of Manipur, where women's vigilante groups have turned to public punishment to humiliate them. Alcoholics are
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Help on AIDS
Rich countries have been so indifferent to the developing world's AIDS crisis that it is easy to overlook an instance in which they have done the right thing. In a speech Robert Zoellick, the
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Firm's Stem cell rights at risk
The University of Wisconsin's patent licensing foundation is threatening to revoke Geron Corp's exclusive commercial rights related to human embryonic stem cells, a development that could throw the
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Striking a balance on patent rights
For years now, Washington has been the strongest defender of the patent rights of multinational companies, as developing countries have increasingly challenged them-most recently to procure cheaper
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China cautions on food safety
Consumers in China have been warned to take extra care with food safety after tests showed high levels of pesticides and nitrates in some products, the official China Daily newspaper reported.
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Malaysia opposes HIV testing
The Malaysian AIDS Council opposes a plan by the southern state of Johore to carry out mandatory premarital HIV tests on Muslim couples.The council feared the plan was not scientifically sound,