And they are exacerbated by bad management, says Simon Long AS IT SCOURS the universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, NASA has a motto-cum-mission-statement: “Follow the water”. About 70% of the human
The advertising message in a major U.S. magazine was enticing to millions of women who wanted to lose weight. The advertisement talked of Cellasene a herbal supplement, that miraculously helps in
"How do you inform the public that they're eating shit?" lamented one European Commission official. He meant it literally. In Europe's latest food scare, the French government admitted last week that
There is nothing new in the story of a mining company messing up the environment of a poor country, nor of its being publicly castigated for doing so. But it is at least unusual for said company to
Pelle Rangsten,of Uppsala University, in Sweden and some colleagues from RADI Medical Systems and Hok Instrument have designed an x-ray source small enough to fit on the tip of an endoscope. Using
Poor countries need better access to drugs. They must also take better care of their own health. Of people who are HIV-positive, some 95% are in poor countries. Of the millions who die prematurely of
The AIDS epidemic is leaving a horrifying number of African children without their parents. Estimates of Zambian children under 15 who have lost one or both parents (usually but not always from AIDS)
Until recently, a multinational operating in a less-than-savoury country had nothing to worry about except its image. Damage to that could still be disastrous, as it was for Royal Dutch/Shell when
In humans, studying cocaine sensitisation is tricky since most governments have strong views on giving drugs to the uninitiated, and tend to enforce them with lengthy prison sentences. So instead
A study published in the Lancet, a British medical journal gives a glimpse of conditions in North Korea. Anything from 100,000 to 3m North Koreans have died of starvation since 1995, when famine
Soya growers in Brazil, the world's second-largest producer of the bean, grumble about the high debts and low prices. Unsurprisingly, many hope that they may be able to cut their costs by using
