Bone from skin : Taking a less-traveled path in the quest to replace damaged organs with parts grown in the laboratory, a professor at the University of California reports that he has changed human

Medical services in South Korea were disrupted as tens of thousands of doctors closed their clinics and walked out of hospitals to protest a government reform they feared would deprive them of a

IBM slims a billion bytes : Plunging deep into the world of pocket sized personal computing, International Business Machines Corp. introduced a version of its tiny Microdrive hard drive with a

Dietary supplement companies in the United States have begun aggressively targeting children and parents as consumers of their products, among them powerful chemicals designed to help children gain

Among the many things that people in industrialized countries today take for granted is that we will not die of a sore throat or infected scratch from rosebush. Effective protection provided by

Some of the Amazon's business and political interests have begun to carry the flag fo environmentally friendly economic development projects.According to Joao Capiberbe, the governor of Amapa, one

In imitation of pirate radio stations and offshore casinos, a Dutch doctor is raising money to outfit a ship to bring abortion services to international waters just outside countries where they are

In eastern Nebraska, in a swath of the Gulf Coast from Florida to New Orleans, in the hills of West Texas and in Georgia and Alabama, pockets of extraordinary drought, by some measures the worst in a

German nuclear plants could start shutting in 2002 following an agreement by the government and the power industry to end the country's use of atomic energy, the environment minister said. A deal

Scientists have pinpointed a highly toxic bacteria as the cause of a mysterious illness that has killed at least 35 heroin addicts, public health officials said. The source of the outbreak, which