While patients are panicking over shortage of flue vaccines in the United States, vaccination programs in the rest of the world areprgressing normally with a good supply of medicine, health

Hong Kong has decided to outlaw smoking in bars and restaurants, joining cities like New York and countries like Ireland in leading the charge against tobacco, officials said Thursday. The

Environmentalists in China who helped persuade Prime Minister Wen Jiabao earlier this yer to suspend a dam project in southwest China are now fighting plns for another hydropower project they say

A powerful typhoon that struck southwestern Japan has left two people dead and 16 others injured, the police said. Typhoon Tokage lashed the island of Shikoku on Wednesday afternoon with sustained

It is almost unbelievable -and surely unacceptable - that the world's most medically advanced nation should suddenly find nearly half of its expected supply of influenza vaccine wiped out by

The head of the UN World Health Organization, Dr David Nabarro, estimated tlast week that 70,000 displaced people in the Darfur region of Sudan have died since last March solely from conditions in

Harvard University scientists are seeking permission to conduct therapeutic cloning that would involve the creation and destruction of early-stage human embryos to get thir stem cells for research.

For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shwon that it can save children from infection or death. The vaccine, tested on thousands of chldren in Mozambique, was hardly

A strong earthquake in the Pacific off Taiwan rocked the island's northeast on Friday, damaging buildings and injuring several people, officials said. The quake, the strongest since one in 1999 that

Japan's agriculture minister on Friday proposed relaxing testing standards for mad cow disease in amove that could lead to the end of an eight-month ban on US beef imports. The minister, Yoshinobu