Six months after American Home Products Corp. recalled Redux over safety concerns, the company is releasing new data suggesting that the diet pill is far less dangerous than previously thought. Last

AIDS deaths in the U.S. are declining sharply as a direct result of powerful drug cocktails first introduced in early 1996, according to a provocative new research report. AIDS activists and

Officials now fear the nutria as big as a cat, with a long rat's tail and the webbed rear feet of a duck poses a threat to Thailand's lush, rice growing wetlands. When they're free, nutria use their

Japan's deregulation measures for the domestic power sector will likely result in wider use of fuel oil and coal, counter to an agreement reached in Kyoto late last year to reduce greenhouse gas

Franco-Italian semiconductor maker SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said it has developed a technique to build global positioning by satellite navigation systems using only two microchips. The

They keep anthrax bacteria in the basement of a faded red brick building, not far from the yellow fever virus, the botulism bacteria and some of the hundreds of organisms that cause the common cold.

Glaxo Wellcome PLC continued its cautious march back into the vaccine business by unveiling a DNA vaccine collaboration with Powderject Pharmaceuticals PLC, a fledgling Oxford, England land based

A breakthrough in chip manufacturing at the University of Texas at Austin could boost semiconductor performance while saving the industry billions of dollars in retooling and research costs, industry

A group of 20 anti-smoking activists and self described nicotine addicts filed a class action suit against a Japanese affiliate of the U.S. tobacco giant Philip Morris Co., demanding it stop sales

An industry panel selected Apple Computer Inc.'s QuickTime technology as a standard in a new multimedia specification for the Internet, providing a psychological boost to the beleaguered computer