Panel accepts U.S. Farm Bill
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved an $88 billion farm bill that would place no limits on subsidies to America''s wealthiest farmers and would increase spending for conservation and food
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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U.S. reverses its stance on destruction of smallpox
The Bush Administration, reversing a course set two decade ago, has decided that the world's remaining stocks of smallpox should be retained until scientists develop new vaccines and treatments for
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From China, a sad harvest
Three years ago in New York one of Dr. Thomas Diflo's patients on a long waiting list for a kidney transplant showed up with a new problem she no longer needed a kidney but suddenly needed after
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Few Chinese AIDS patients get needed drugs
China's first national conference on AIDS will focus on prevention, while the hundreds of thousands of patients, rich and poor, already suffering from HIV in this country are receiving little in the
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Anthrax may have domestic source
The discovery of a second letter to a Democratic U.S. senator apparently containing anthrax has strengthened federal investigators belief that the attack through the mail is the work of domestic
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A World Trade deal
The 144 nations of the World Trade Organization defied expectations and their own protectionist instincts by approving an agenda that over the next three years could produce an invaluable array of
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Cholera kills 60 in Mozambique
At least 60 people have died of cholera in Mozambique since the since the disease broke out in
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Living under a cloud the sheltered forests
The problem scientists say is deforestation but not within Monteverde's vast network of reserves. Instead in a new report in Science researchers offer evidence that deforestation in the lowlands is
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Disease and Starvation: North Korean toll growing
The top executive of the World Health Organization said that North Koreans were dying at a rate that was approximately 40 percent higher than in 1994 when the country was hit by the first of a series
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What now, Mad Cow? The scare for people ebbs
Panic over Mad Cow Disease swept across the European Union a year ago amid fears that a related disease would infect and kill hundreds of thousands of people. In fact, a little more than a hundred