It's harvest time for the newly converted tree farmers of Leshan, in China's Sichuan province.Backed by such US investors as Chase Capital Partners plus more than $35million of project financing and

Prescription drugs can help stave off heart attacks, prevent hip fractures and cut the risk of stroke. That's one reason the share of the U.S. health-care bill devoted to pharmaceuticals is now more

There's something missing at Keith Barefoot's 8,000-head hog farm near Raleigh, the stench. Barefoot is one of a handful of farmers who have installed an innovative animal-waste control system from

Is a cure on the horizon? : Six rhesus monkeys playing at the University of Miami are the great hopes of diabetes. In a major advance announced in June, the monkeys were essentially cured of the

Researchers around the world are beginning the first human trials of promising new methods of gene therapy-curing disease at the most fundamental level by correcting the genetic errors responsible

Giving it a rest : Apodaca is on the front lines of a bold, contrarian strategy for fighting the AIDS virus. The idea is to stop drug treatment in carefully monitored breaks lasting from a few weeks

Researchers from the University of South Carolina report that an experimental developed by Boehringer Ingelheim Corp. in Ridgefield, Conn., halved the severity of symptoms in people paid to catch

With no hard evidence that genetically engineered crops is harmful to humans, critics in the U.S. have waged a largely ineffectual war to curb it. But suddenly, foes of bioengineering in the food

Experts say that there has never been a more effective antismoking campaign than Florida's. Over the past year, a series of commercials potraying the tobacco industry as sinister and manipulative

There's nothing like the sweet smell of freshly mown grass. But the chemicals that cause the pleasant fragnance in certain combinations do a lot of harm to the atmosphere. What's more, the emissions