U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has been weakened and demoralized by tensions with Bush administration officials in Washington, according to some current and former
The California Poppy Reserve closed early for lack of blooms. The Kansas corn is pitiful. New Mexico river rafters have no river left to raft, and at the marinas around Lake Mead, they have had to
The drug tamoxifen, widely prescribed for women, with breast cancer or at high risk for it, may cause a rare but aggressive cancer of the uterus, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Wider application of measures known to stem the spread of AIDS would prevent 29 million people in the world from becoming infected by 2010, according to two new studies. Some of these measures
The European Union is to introduce proposals for an overhaul of the region's 40 year old Common Agricultural Policy that would sever the traditional link between aid from Brussels and what farmers
A large federal study of hormone replacement therapy in post-menopausal women was abruptly halted, researchers say, because the drugs caused a slight but significant increase in the risk of invasive
For almost 18 years, Warren Anderson was the most wanted man in the Indian city of Bhopal. Nearly two decades after what has been called the world's deadliest industrial accident (In 1984, when
The Russian attachment to land is so deep and visceral that efforts to sell off decaying collective farms unsettle even those who understand that the country would work far better with a private
People in China know very little about AIDS, with nearly three quarters unaware that the disease is caused by a virus or able to describe how they can avoid becoming infected, according to the first
The federal government will soon vaccinate roughly a half million health care and emergency workers against smallpox as a precaution against a bioterrorist attack, federal officials said. The
