Liu Xiao spends her weeks visiting sludge and organic waste treatment plants across China. The travel can be tiring but as a technical and policy adviser on waste management she must help implement President
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to speed up its medicines approval process to help pharmaceutical industry productivity and get new treatments to patients more quickly. The change,
Twenty-one months after World Trade Organisation members launched the Doha trade round, they are facing up to an uncomfortable reality : despite jetting to countless meetings around the globe and
The possibility that the World Trade Organisation may start negotiating investment rules at its Cancun meeting in September has alarmed some developing countries. They have produced numerous
Trade mnisters from African, Caribbean and Pacific nations have called on members of the World Trade Organisation to focus on the demands of developing countries at a crucial meeting of WTO ministers
Consider the economic policy craze of summer 2003: legalising reimportation of drugs produced in the US. Prescription drugs in the US are expensive. Prices elsewhere, especially in Canada, are
The most common form of hormone replacement therapy doubles the risk of breast cancer, a study of 1m British women has shown. The alarming findings, published today in the Lancet medical journal, are
A symbolic turning point in South Africa's battle with HIV/Aids came yesterday when its governemnt singed long-delayed grant agreements with the global agreements with the global fund established to
South Africa has reversed its policy on HIV/AIDS and is to develop a national treatment programme of antiretroviral drug therapy to fight the condition.The about-turn in a country with one of the
The loss of public confidence in science threatens to have serious health consequences in Britain. A study published yesterday showed that measles - virtually eradicated int he 1990s by the measles,
Wheat prices in Britain, Europe and the US have been chasing each other to fresh contract highs this week as the heatwave in Europe cuts continental crop estimates, putting pressure on other wheat
