The oil tanker Erika, which sank off the French coast a month ago and sparked a major pollution crisis, was in bad condition, with a weakend rust-corroded structure according to an official report

A tool against blindness : Scientists have created a strain of genetically altered rice to combat Vitamin A deficiency, the world's leading causing of blindness and a malaise that affects as many as

An international team of surgeons transplanted both hands and forearms onto a young man in a world first, hospital officials in this French city said on Friday. A team of 50 doctors and medical

As a widespread outbreak of influenza swamps hospitals and doctors' offices around the world, officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have warned that doctors appear to the relying too

The Environmental Protection Agency was placed new restrictions on the cultivation of genetically modified corn, a response to concerns that gene-altered crops may be causing ecological disruption.

Like humans, microbes now can cross international borders and vast distances with jet-borne speed. That is the not-s-hidden subtext of rising concern among international public health authorities

Because of a European Commission ban imposed last month on common petroleum-based chemical agents in toys, the Hong Kong baby-toy industry has been forced to use a more expensive substitute, raising

Imagine 40 million hungry and destitute orphans in sub-Saharan Africa by the year 2010-roaming the streets without the schooling or work. This is the kind of nightmare that prompted the United

To make room for flu victims, overburdened hospitals in Britain are postponing operations, doctors in Israel are treating patients in cafeterias, and health officials in other parts of the Middle

Philip Morris Co. announced that it had developed technology that might reduce the number of fires started by cigarettes, a move that comes more than a decade after lawmakers and fire safety experts