U.S. debates cost of emissions plan
An analysis by economists at the Environmental Protection Agency has found that a Senate plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming could achiever its goal at very little
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Testing for prostate cancer
It seems hard to believe, but a widely used screening test for prostate cancer in men is probably missing a vast majority of tumors. An analysis published in The New England Journal of Medicine
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Plumbing the depths, there's less to plumb
Most of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans, and their vastness and biological bounty were long thought to be immune to human influence. But no more. Scientists and marine e xperts say decades
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Ad race is escalating on cholesterol drugs
Drug companies are escalating the advertising race in one of the industry's hottest categories: cholesterol-lowering drugs. Entering an already crowded field, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals is preparing
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30 countries to expand gauging of environment
Officials from more than 30 countries have agreed to expand monitoring of the atmosphere, the oceans and the land and to create a system for sharing the resulting data. At a meeting organized by the
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Heat and drought scorching large swath of China
A devastating drought gripping large parts of China has left 8.6 million people short of drinking water and laid waste to large tracts of arable land, state media said. Across the country, record
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Fast-food firms focus on children
McDonald's wants to be everywhere that children are. McDonald's calls promotion and brand extension. But growing number of nutritionists call it a blitzkrieg that perverts children's eating habits
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Experts want data from China on SARS
China's crash research program into SARS yielded important new clues. But little of that information has been widely shared, dismaying World Health Organisation officials, who worry that
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King cotton's long reach
If it weren't killing them, people in Burkina Faso might get a good laugh at America's unprofitable cotton-growing obsession. But those American subsidies are killing the Burkinabe farmers, so the
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First Italian dies of mad cow disease
Italy has recorded its first fatality from human version of mad cow disease.A 27-year-old woman from Sicily died in a hospital in Milan on Wednesday, a hospital official