The Energy Dept. yesterday moved toward creating a system todispose of its excess plutonium by burning it as fuel in civilian reactors. Energy Secretary Federico Pena said the DOE will build

The Department of Family Welfare in the Ministry of Health has ordered a high-level probe into reports of alleged administration of spurious polio vaccines to children in Ghaziabad and other towns of

Leaders of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly M Mallikarjun Kharge has refused to accompany the proposed all-party delegation to World Bank-aided Upper Krishna Project and dubbed the visit as

The European Commission has again postponed a decision on whether to ban toxic chemicals contained in children's toys, raising concerns that eventual measures to protect consumers will be

The US Food and Drug Administration gave its approval for the expanded use of the anti-cancer agent taxotere, according to its manufacturer Rhone-Poulenc Rohrer, the pharmaceuticals subsidiary of

Predictions that the internet will one day encompass the globe came true in a literal sense when Microsoft launched the largest database on the world wide web containing a global atlas of aerial and

United Nations weapons inspectors have uncovered evidence that Iraq put deadly VX nerve gas into missile warheads before the 1991 Gulf War, contradicting claims by the Iraqi government that it was

AIDS is hitting so fiercely that it now rivals history's greatest and deadliest epidemics, United Naitons officials said. They also said the AIDS epidemics would worsen before it improved. The

For the second time in two weeks, the Food and Drug Administration has taken the rare step of pulling a prescription drug off pharmacy shelves, a move that is renewing questions about whether the

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first new tuberculosis drug in 25 years. The FDA said that it has approved rifapentine, which is marketed under the name Priftin by Hoechst