Earlier this year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Obesity Working Group issued its

More than 160,000 people will die prematurely in poor countries this week, many of them women and children. Some of these deaths

Japan, the country that gave the term

Panacos Phamaceuticals Inc. said that its experimental AIDS drug PA

Newmont Mining Corp. urged a court to drop charges against its American director in Indonesia, saying a police investigation that showed dangerous levels of toxins in a bay near its now-defunct mine

Russian officials have quarantined a large poultry farm in Siberia because of a suspected outbreak of bird flu, news reports said. If confirmed, it would be the first major occurrence of the lethal

Drug maker Eli Lilly & Co.warned that Strattera, its new drug for children and adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, may cause serious liver side effects in a small number of

China said it has dismissed and detained officials in the eastern city of Linyi for abuses committed while enforcing the country's one-child policy. The government provided no details and said

Analysts who follow CSL Ltd. are increasingly confident the company will reap windfall profits from a cancer vaccine in development by U.S. partner Merck & Co. After market updates by both companies

Samples of whale blubber by a scientific expedition suggest manmade contaminants have spread virtually world-wide, providing a new indication of how far pollution has spread. Researchers abroad the