WHO acts on food terror
The World Health Organisation issued guidance to its 192 members on how to strengthen their food safety and disease surveillance systems to guard against terrorist threats to food. The potential
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
-
-
Virus sickens nearly 250 on cruise ship
Nearly 250 passengers and crew members of the Sun Princess cruise ship came down with a gastrointestinal illness during a voyage from Los Angeles to Hawaii, Princess Cruises said.It was not known if
-
Anti-smoking drive advances in Africa
President Yoweri Museveni said recently that his prayers would be answered if a thousand major cigarette companies operated in Uganda instead of just one. The one, British American Tobacco, provides
-
New drug's approval: shot in arm for Biogen
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Amevive, the first drug from the biotechnology industry to treat psoriasis, a sometimes debilitating skin ailment.Doctors say it will open a new era
-
A serious response to AIDS
President George.W.Bush's decision to ripple spending to fight AIDS overseas, announced in the State of the Union address on Jan. 28, finally provides a response from Washington commensurate with the
-
Video images can now track Alzheimer's
Scientists have developed a technique that allows them to watch the spread of Alzheimer's disease through the brains of living patients
-
Australia drought cuts dairy output by 9.5%
Australian milk production fell 9.5 percent in December from a year earlier, an industry group said, the biggest drop in 22 months as farmers were forced to reduce their milking herds as drought
-
A victim considers survival a miracle
Plague has claimed more than 30 million lives through its black history. It seemed eager to claim two more in November, when doctors confirmed that Tull, 53 and his wife Lucinda Maekre, 47 has the
-
A way to reduce risks of premature births
Doctors have for the first time found a treatment to reduce the rate of premature births in women at risk of having their babies too early. The treatment, weekly injections of a form of the hormone
-
Many in South Africa see hope in AIDS battle
Every Monday morning, patients infected with the AIDS virus come to the redbrick clinic in this impoverished community of dilapidated shacks. In the waiting room, babies wail, nurses hustle and young