U.S. President George W. Bush is facing new pressure from key allies

Chinese farmers, acting with the approval and encouragement of government officials, have tried to suppress major bird-flu outbreaks among chickens with an antiviral drug meant for humans, animal

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that drug companies have broad exemption from patent infringement during early-stage reseach. The decision, in a case brought by Merch KgaA of Germany

As Western drug companies work on a vaccine for a deadly form of influenza that scientists fear could mutate to pandemic proportions, laboratories around the Asian-Pacific region

A biotechnology company, plans to raise as much as $80 million by splitting off three of its most promising drug candidates into a new company funded by private investors. The complex transaction,

From this Atlantic port city on the western tip of France, Francois Nicot is hunting down ships dumping oil residue as they skirt Brittany. With new legal tools and surveillance aircraft, the Brest

About two dozen disease experts meet every morning at nine in an undergorund room at the World Health Organisation headquarters to scrutinize the latest reports of infectious disease. The 18

China's Ministry of Agriculture confirmed outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease that it had previously denied and offered new details about the spread of avian influenza among migratory birds.

Vietnam has promised it won't unilaterally develop a human vaccine for bird flu, abandoning plans that international health experts had complained were hazardous and could themselves trigger an

In the first detailed review of its pharmaceutical pipeline in four years, Johnson & Johnson said analysts it is replenishing its portfolio of new drugs through improved research productivity, a