New stem cell techniques may alter ethics debate
Scientists have devised two new techniques designed to alleviate ethical concerns. In one, the cells are derived without the need to destroy an embryo, the principal objection of anti-abortion
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Many in former Soviet states still face poverty
Forty million people moved out of poverty in Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union from 1998 through 2003, leaving 61 million people still poor, according to a new World Bank
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West told to divert flu shots to Asia
To head off a global pandemic of avian flu, some virologists have proposed a novel front-line strategy: Poultry workers and farmers in Asia, they argue, should be given the same flu shots that
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A devastating earthquake
The images from Pakistan this week are heartrending, even more so since they come while Americans confront the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. That storm's damage seemed unimaginable, yet
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U.S. blames EU as talks on farm subsidies falter
The United States has blamed the European Union for the failure to reach a deal this week on an overhaul of the system for agricultural subsidies, a main sticking point in global trade talks. Hopes
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Hong Kong, the invisible harbor
As China's economy booms, pollution from factories in neighboring Guangdong Province is drifting across to Hong Kong, mixing with the emissions of a growing number of cars and driving smog levels to
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Roche is pressed to ease curbs on its bird flu drug
Roche, the maker of the main drug that would be used against a possible bird flu epidemic, is under growing pressure to allow production of generic versions of the medicine, with a senior Taiwanese
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Why U.S. shifted subsidy policy
It was described as a listening tour to figure out how to write the 2007 farm bill. But when the U.S. agriculture secretary, Mike Johanns, visited 17 farm states this summer, he was preparing the
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A Thai remedy for high health costs
The crisis in American health care is turning into very good news for Bumrungrad Hospital.Bumrungrad treated more than 350,000 international patients last year, up from 161,000 in 2000. This year it
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New disease is not SARS, China says
China denied that a mysterious disease that has killed at least 17 people in southwestern China was either SARS or bird flu and said it was probably caused by a bacteria spread among pigs. An