Medicine and Health
Nobel Prize for Medicine for gastric ulcer breakthrough
By Perla Astudillo, March 6, 2006
Last year’s Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded in December to two Australian scientists who revealed the bacterial basis for the world’s second most prevalent disease—gastritis and...
Bird flu sparks emergency measures in India, Europe, Africa
By Patrick Martin, February 21, 2006
In the most rapid and far-flung extension of the area of infection since the most recent strain of avian flu was first detected nine years ago, health authorities in India, Western Europe and parts of...
The dangers of a global bird flu pandemic
By Frank Gaglioti, November 4, 2005
Health authorities around the world are warning that humanity could face the first global influenza pandemic of the twenty-first century. The spread of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza through poult...
Lack of government preparation for flu pandemic
By Barry Mason and Chris Talbot, October 20, 2005
Cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus have now been confirmed in poultry in Turkey, Romania and Greece. So far, the virus that is spreading from the Far East, through Russia and into Europ...
EU states downplay risk as bird flu spreads toward Western Europe
By Dragan Stankovic, September 10, 2005
The discovery of avian influenza, or bird flu, among migratory birds and domestic poultry in Siberia during July has triggered fears that the virus will reach Western Europe. Despite warnings by many ...
Research reveals link between tiny genetic structures and cancer
By Perla Astudillo, September 5, 2005
The complex connection between genes and cancer has been further clarified in fascinating findings published in the June 9 edition of the British science journal Nature. Separate studies by three majo...
Nanotechnology and the treatment of cancer
By Perla Astudillo, June 20, 2005
Recent successful medical trials of a cancer treatment involving the use of “nanotechnology” may open up important new avenues for the diagnosis and treatment of other cancers and diseases...
New malaria study reveals huge underestimation of disease
By Barry Mason, March 31, 2005
A new study using epidemiological, geographical and demographic data has demonstrated that there are over 500 million cases of malaria each year. This figure is more than double that previously estima...
New cases of bird flu underscore dangers of a global pandemic
By Dragan Stankovic, March 29, 2005
The appearance of new cases of the bird flu virus HIN5 among poultry and humans in Asia has prompted urgent warnings about the potentially catastrophic consequences of a deadly worldwide pandemic. At ...
Asbestos industry—corporate murder on a global scale
“You will know them by their trail of death”—an investigation into the asbestos industry
Review of a Real Life documentary produced in the UK for ITN television.
September 14, 2004
This documentary, broadcast in August, is about corporate murder, premeditated and on a massive scale. Widows Joan Baird and Pauline Bonney listen to a haunting song about the epidemic of asbestos dea...
As superbug problem mounts, drug companies slash antibiotics research
By Guy Charron, September 11, 2004
Infectious disease specialists have drawn a causal link between an alarming rise in the number of Quebec hospital patients becoming infected with and dying from Clostridium difficile—a bacterium...
Canada: meatpackers profit from BSE crisis
By David Adelaide, August 23, 2004
A recently released report by Alberta’s auditor general reveals that the major meatpacking companies reaped windfall profits from Canada’s BSE crisis, while the social cost of the crisis f...
