Gene therapy successes reported for 2 children
Two children born with a life-threatening immune system disorder appear to have been cured after being given new genes, marking the second pair of successes in two years for the long-beleaguered
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Bleak new for smokers
It is hard to believe there is anything new to be learned about the evils of tobacco. But a depressing new analysis by a team assembled by the World Health Organization has found that tobacco is a
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Diverse uses of blood pressure drug
For 20 years doctors have used ACE inhibitors to control blood pressure in heart patients. But now it is becoming increasingly clear that these drugs - with names like ramipril and capoten -can do
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Hormone replacement raises heart patients' risk
In women with heart disease, taking hormones after meopause does not protect against heart attacks or strokes and it increases the risk of dangerous blood clots and gallbladder disease, according to
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Death rate from AIDS will surge, UN warns
AIDS will claim an additional 65 million lives by 2020, more then triple the number who died in the first 20 years of the epidemic, unless more countries vastly expand their prevention programs,
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Calculating the murky concept of risk
The information provided by advocacy groups is blunt. Y-ME a national breast cancer organization, states that breast cancer is 'the overall leading cause of death in women between the ages of 40 and
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No to nicotine water
Nicotine-laced bottled water, which is being marketed as a dietary supplement, is an unapproved drug and cannot be sold in the United States without federal clearances as a drug. U.S. regulators have
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Nuclear waste roils a tropical island
An island in Taiwan is one of the most troubled nuclear waste dumps. As many as 20000 barrels of radioactive debris are cracking and coming apart because of chemical reactions inside, the site's
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Scorched-earth politics
A third dry summer is a row has brought another wave of forest fires to the American West. With 2 million acres already gone and summer just begun, it would seem logical for everyone to set
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For psychiatrists, New Mexico law is better medicine
In his annual report to the nation's psychiatrists in May, the medical director of the American Psychiatric Association rallied American's psychiatrists 'to stop this plague from spreading across the