The resurgent wave of polio making its way across Africa has reached Ethiopia, which is now trying to raise $15 million to stop it, according to World Health Organisation officials. Ethopia is one of

Two large studies presented at a cardiology conference have offered mixed news for the U.S. drug maker Pfizer's two best-selling drugs, the cholesterol lowering medicine Lipitor and the hypertension

China's rising demand for wood threatens to devastate timber stocks in countries from Indonesia to Russia, the environmental group WWF, formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund, said, calling for

China's rising demand for wood threatens to devastate timber stocks in countries from Indonesia to Russia, the environmental group WWF, formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund, said, calling for

The World Trade Organisation struck a huge blow for poor countries the world over last week when it upheld a ruling that the billions of dollars America spends to subsidize its cotton farmers violate

President George W. Bush's Clear Skies initiative appears dead for this session of Congress this is no great loss. Clear Skies is a bad bill, which in the name of streamlining current law would offer

India's Parliament is about to take up a proposed law that could affect sick people the world over. India is the leading supplier of low-cost generic AIDS medicine. The country's huge generic

Initial tests for a bird flu vaccine on monkeys in Vietnam have been successful, medical officials said. Vietnamese researchers injected three monkeys with a vaccine based on a weakened H5N1 bird flu

When a government advisory panel concluded that the painkillers Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx, could all be safely marketed despite evidence of cardiac risks, the decisive votes were cast by experts who

The Bush administration has contributed to suffering and death through the so-called global gag rule, which prohibits Washington from giving money to any group that performs