"Health officials paused a vaccination program in the English city of Coventry today after a 14-year-old girl died a few hours after being vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer. NHS Coventry said it stopped the program for two days to give staff administering the vaccine training in how to answer questions from anyone concerned about its safety. “We fully expect to resume the program in the coming days,” the health authority said in a statement. Natalie Morton died in a hospital Monday, a fe..."

"On August 20, 1998 Bill Clinton launched 79 cruise missiles at seven defenseless targets in the Middle East. One was a pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan called El Shifa. A pair of outstanding articles in Covert Action Quarterly (CAQ, Winter, 99) illustrates what a colossal crime was committed by this act of terrorism from our now-unimpeachable president. According to a well-researched article written by Richard Becker, Sara Flounders and John Parker in CAQ, the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant was responsible for o..."

"WASHINGTON — The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium...."

"Scientists have pinpointed a possible reason why pancreatic cancer is such an aggressive disease. A University of Liverpool team found a family of proteins involved in controlling cell movement could be key. The study, which appears in the journal Gut, could offer a new lead on a disease which is hard to treat...."

"Picture a spider web coated with sugar. But instead of luring in unsuspecting creatures, this spider web pulls in deadly anthrax spores, rendering them harmless. Clemson University chemist Ya-Ping Sun and his research team have developed such a countermeasure strategy to weaponized anthrax, a biological agent used by a terrorist or terrorists that killed five Americans in 2001. The Clemson team’s findings are published online in the “Journal of the American Chemical Society.” ..."

"A decade ago, in a publicity stunt to convince the world that mad cow disease couldn't infect humans, British Agriculture Minister John Gummer fed his 4-year-old daughter a hamburger on the steps of Parliament. Later it became clear that the message in that photo op was terribly wrong. The girl never got sick, but dozens of other people did, succumbing to an invariably fatal disease that riddled parts of their brains with microscopic holes. The ensuing mad cow crisis has cost Britain alone some $ 7.5 billion and pr..."

"BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- A deadly new strain of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB (for extreme drug resistant tuberculosis) has been discovered in South Africa, according to media reports Thursday. The super bug is likely to have spread beyond the rural area in South Africa where 52 of the 53 people diagnosed with it have died, said Dr. Tony Moll who discovered XDR-TB. The extent of the outbreak in the Kwazulu-Natal region of eastern South Africa is unknown because tests are expensive and specialize..."