KOLKATA - During last year s post September 11 anthrax attacks in the US, Charles Schumer, the senior senator from New York state, made two international calls. The first was to the German town of Leverkusen, where he spoke with Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant, about supplies of the anthrax-fighting drug, Cipro.
SYDNEY - A looming cash crisis threatens to unravel much of Asia s recent success in stemming the spread of the AIDS virus, with the biggest impact probably being felt by the three most populous nations in the region. Position papers presented at the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, which ended on the w
BEIJING - As an administrative official of a major news organization here in Beijing, Liu Jie has become used to multi-tasking. But for the past few years, one particular item in her list of duties had become quite a challenge to accomplish: family planning, largely because she has to introduce contraceptive use to the
NEW DELHI - When Indian Health Minister C P Thakur confirmed on Tuesday that pneumonic plague had killed four in northern Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal states last week, he touched off concerns about India s readiness to combat communicable diseases and the state of its public health system. As with the plague outbr
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