an italian microbiologist who has been monitoring hygiene on the Russian space station, Mir, says that filthy conditions have caused its occupants to suffer from food poisoning and other
there have been mixed reactions in the us over a lady giving birth to seven babies. Only one of the babies - of Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey - was still breathing with the aid of a ventilator.
inexpensive cures: Drugs to combat the HIV virus may become cheaper in Uganda, Cote d'Ivoire, Chile and Vietnam. Pharmaceutical companies, Glaxo Wellcome and Hoffmann-La Roche have decided to cut
Infants who take water in addition to breast milk or formula food may be at a serious health risk, say Paula Scariatt and her colleagues at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta,
Continued food shortage in North Korea has made its population susceptible to disease. The Geneva-based Inter-national Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has sought a us $14.3
Some cardiac arrests may be all in the mind. Researchers in Canada have discovered a region in the brain that controls the activity of heart and blood vessels. According to them, abnormalities in the
According to Bangkok gemologists, hundreds of dangerously radio-active gemstones are circulating in the Asian markets and some have even found their way into finished jewellery. Tests conducted
