Buried in President Bill Clinton's new budget is a cleverly designed proposal to encourage pharmaceutical companies to invent new vaccines for poor countries. The proposal would address a severe

Panama's Healthy Ministry has declaed an emergency in two provinces hit by an outbreak of the Hanta virus and has canceled carnival celebrations there. The provinces concerned are Herrera and Los

Fires have broken out again on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where land-clearing blazes previously caused severe pollution in Southeast Asia, officials in Singapore said Thursday. "IN the past

The German government cleared the way for a resumption of British beef imports Wednesday after a nearly four-year ban prompted by fears of "mad-cow" disease. European Union authorities lifted a

Using a new statistical method and one of the world's most powerful computers, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say that they have traced the origin of the AIDs epidemic to around

A flood wave roaring down the Limpopo River from South Africa hit the Mozambican province of Gaza on Sunday, wreaking more devastation following the worst floods in 50 years, officials said. At least

Bill Bradley has vowed to take on the timber, agribusiness and water industries that he said threaten the ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. He pledged Saturday to stop offshore drilling and

At their annual economic summit in Cologne last summer, leaders of the seven industrialized democracies and Russia pledged to work for common environmental standards to be used by the national

As the death toll caused by flooding and a cyclone began to climb, aid workers warned Wednesday of a pending humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands of people ramained stranded without food and

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first vaccine that will prevent a life-threatening form of bacterial meningitis in young children and that may also have the moe far-reaching