HIV/Aids is having a crippling effect on the workforce of many countries, a report by the International Labour Organization for World Aids Day says.
The ILO said HIV/Aids killed almost 3.5 million people of working age in 2005.
Scientists believe they have uncovered why some arthritis drugs such as Vioxx can cause heart attacks and strokes.
They found Cox-2 inhibitor painkillers were stopping an enzyme producing blood-thinning agents - leading to a greater chance of blood clot
Your brain may figure out what you'll snatch up for this season's holiday gifts even before you check your lists, according to new research presented today.
Well-known commercial brands have now been proven to get a positive emotional reaction from the
The ABC News/Washington Post Consumer Comfort Index stands at +1 on its scale of +100 to -100, matching its high for the year -- likewise, its best since April 2002. It's risen sharply from a recent low of -19 in late August.
Among the components of t
The European Union is to establish carbon limits for the second phase of the carbon trading scheme, a key way to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The Global Carbon Project says that emissions were rising by less than 1% annually up to the year 2000, but are now rising at 2.5% per year.
It says the acceleration comes mainly from a rise in charcoal consumption and a lack of new energy efficiency
The sections of liver were created using stem cells from umbilical cords by a team at Newcastle University. A more realistic short-term use would be to replace some of the testing on humans and animals of pharmaceuticals.
Thanks to advances in DNA technology, scientists can now reconstruct new copies of old viruses. Last year United States government scientists reconstructed the virus that caused the influenza epidemic of 1918. Now a team of French scientists has rebuilt a
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