Afghans tackle iodine deficiency
In the villages of Afghanistan, they call it the sadness sickness. Some say it is the water that causes the disease. But few people in Afghanistan really know what causes a goiter, the big, bulging,
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Preventive SARS strategy is found
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts say they have discovered a promising strategy for arresting future epidemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome
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Sonar tied to whales' deaths from the bends
Scientists have long suspectd alink between mass whale stranding s and the navy's use of powerful sonar systems, but the evidence
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China on alert for new SARS outbreak
Chinese disease control officials said that the deadly disease SARS will definitely come back, but the scale of the next outbreak will depend on prevention measures. Zeng Guang of the China Center
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Halting breast cancer trial
Are scientists engaging in ethical over kill when they stop a clinical trial early so all women can benefit quickly form the findings? That disturbing possibility was raised by the decision in the
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Where anti-clone collides with pro-baby
Doctors in China have become the first in the world to make an infertile woman pregnant with an experimental technique devised in the United States for women who have healthy genes but defects in
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U.S. Navy will limit use of sonar for whales' sake
The U.S. Navy has reached an agreement with environmental groups that restricts the use of a powerful new sonar system that could injure marine life to an area in the western North Pacific Ocean.
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Thirsty states pay the rainmaker
With a severe drought parching Colorado and much of the American West in recent years, Denver's water department decided to take a gamble in the hope of squeezing more precipitation out of the
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Cancer study finds widely used drug ineffective
A drug widely prescribed for anemia in cancer patients and believed to help radiation work better did not prolong life and might have even impaired cancer treatment in some patients, a study in
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EU affirms ban on U.S. beef
The European Union said that it had permanently banned the importation of U.S. hormone-treated meat and asked the Bush administration to drop tariffs imposed in retaliation for loses caused to U.S.