Photo: Health Protection Agency/AP A 39-year-old man has died from a SARS-like disease, becoming the first British fatality from the illness. The victim, the sixth person to die from novel coronavirus worldwide, was one...
Seed giant Monsanto has won more than $23 million from hundreds of small farmers accused of replanting the company’s genetically engineered seeds. Now, another case is looming – and it could set a landmark...
Photo: ALAMY Relative of a British patient who recently contracted a potentially fatal SARS-like virus has also become infected with the disease, health experts say. The patient, who has not been named, is receiving...
http://www.euronews.com/ A bionic man complete with artificial organs, synthetic blood and robotic limbs has gone on display at the Science Museum in London. Costing some 600,000 euros he is expensive but not as pricey as...
Photo Credit:(Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images) In a patient’s fight against tuberculosis—the bacterial lung disease that kills more people annually than any infectious disease besides HIV— doctors have more than 10 drugs from which to choose....
http://www.facethefactsusa.org – Americans spend more than $20 billion each year on dietary supplements, many of them questionable products.
A major trial of a new booster vaccine has ended in failure, marking a major setback in the fight against tuberculosis (TB). It was the first big study in infants since the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin...
The European Commission has proposed that member states restrict the use of certain classes of pesticide that are believed to be harmful to bees. Sprays that use neonicotinoid chemicals should only be used on...
CNN’s Nick Valencia reports on a new strain of norovirus found in the U.S. and the symptoms it causes.
Pneumonia seen in one of the lungs. Photo: ALAMY A warning has been issued over a killer strain of pneumonia that is striking otherwise healthy flu sufferers, after half of cases for a whole year...
