Hay fever and the big sneeze
Hay fever season is coming early this year. It’s time for sufferers to ready for battle – but finding effective relief is no sneezing matter.
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Health
Extinguishing old flames: The persistent appeal of smoking
Like someone who hitches up with a despised ex after years apart, I’m kicking myself for having taken up smoking again.
Read MoreAIDS denial on the Nile
Egypt’s rounding-up and incarceration of HIV-positive people is unjust, unrealistic and unhealthy.
Read MoreSleeper cells preying on the young
Statistics reveal that more young people are succumbing to cancer. How do people in the prime of life cope when these sleeper cells go on the rampage?
Read MoreBurning issues on Belgian trains
Belgian trains are about to become off-limits to smokers and the debate over extending the ban to other public spaces simmers on in Belgium – and across Europe.
Read MoreThe threat of depleted geraniums
American and British forces have failed to find any WMD in Iraq, but our reporter has stumbled across a nightmare cache of biological weapons right on his Brussels’ doorstep. He risks life and limb to stop and smell the flowers.
Read MoreEuropean Commission gets tough on illicit drugs
The European Commission has drawn up proposals for stringent new regulations aimed at combating the growing profusion of illicit drugs by targeting the production and distribution of dual-use chemicals, known as precursors.
Read MoreCure needed for sick man of Europe
The European drug industry is looking on with rising alarm as its American rivals pull further and further ahead in
Read MoreTropical diseases ignored by companies
The pharameutical industry’s neglect of tropical diseases has deadly consequences for poor people around the world.
Read MorePfizer buys up rival Pharmacia
The world’s largest pharmaceuticals firm, Pfizer, has agreed to acquire rival US drug company Pharmacia for a reported €52.5 billion in stock, raising speculation that the fragmented industry will be seized by merger mania.
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