Rich governments must provide the financial incentive for drug companies to develop an effective malaria vaccine. The cost would be a fraction of their total aid budget. Nobody knows the exact extent

The European Commission said the United States was wrong to criticize the European Union's latest report on beef hormones, which claims that some hormones used by the U.S. beef industry pose a health

Bausch & Lomb Inc. said it withdrew some advertising claims for its new PureVision contact Lens in response to a warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Introduced in March, the new lens

The death toll in an outbreak of an Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever in the rebel-held northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has risen to 72, state television reported Wednesday. A spokesman

The govenment will spend Rs 250 crores on a malaria eradication programme in 1999-2000 out of which Rs 130 crores will be taken from the World

The opposition Conservative Party will set out to win the support of Britain's smokers with a surprise decision to fight the government's planned rise in tobacco duty. The Conservatives will

A new gene therapy treatment has been used successfully to reduce prostate cancer in men, scientists reported. The news represents an important advance for both treatment of the deadly disease and

A new gene therapy treatment has been used successfully to reduce prostate cancer in men, scientists reported. The news represents an important advance for both treatment of the deadly disease and

The opposition Conservative Party will set out to win the support of Britain's smokers with a surprise decision to fight the government's planned rise in tobacco duty. The Conservatives will

Clinical tests will soon start on attacking cancer cells by irradiating a substance injected into them with neutrons, creating microscopic nuclear-fission reactions inside the cells to destroy them.