Tobacco blamed for predicted 50 per cent rise in cancer cases

The aggressive marketing of cigarettes in the developing world is a key factor in a predicted rise of global cancer rates over the next 20 years more »

First Case of Mysterious SARS Disease Confirmed in Germany

International health experts are hunting for the virus that causes SARS, the flu-like disease that has killed 61 people worldwide more »

NASA Launches New IT R&D Programs

NASA has awarded $19.4 million in funding for 20 new IT research and development programs more »

The academy for ex-communist states

Cyber-savvy Estonia, an ex-Soviet republic that has embraced information technology with the velocity of a Baltic Sea storm, will now teach other former communist states to do the same more »

Global Pandemic

Russia is on the brink of an AIDS catastrophe, experts say, that could lead to infection rates rarely seen outside sub-Saharan Africa more »

The greatest paleontological discoveries of the past 100 years

Skulls Found in Africa and in Europe Challenge Theories of Human Origins more »

Human Development Report 2002

Lithuania Among the World’s Fifty Three Most Developed Countries more »

Tibetan medicine to be taught at Harvard University

A Tibetan graduate student is scheduled to lecture on Tibetan medicine at Harvard University for three months starting from early September more »

Lifestyle linked to Alzheimer's

Having a healthy diet, exercising and not being overweight can not only reduce the risk of developing heart disease, but may also protect against Alzheimer's, new research claims more »

The discovery

AIDS researchers have announced a possible breakthrough with the discovery of a naturally occurring gene that effectively blocks the disease's progress more »