Bioscientist held by US said to be ill
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BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi lawyer said yesterday that one of Saddam Hussein's former top scientists, known as "Mrs. Anthrax," has cancer and is dying in US custody, where she has been held for more than a year.
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NEW YORK, May 26 -- An American student arrested last year in London on allegations of providing al-Qaeda fighters with equipment to attack U.S. soldiers was in federal custody Saturday.
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"My concern is that it's biologically plausible that the MMR vaccine causes or contributes to the disease in many children, and that nothing in the science so far dissuades me from the continued need to pursue that question"  The British doctor who sparked a health scare by suggesting a childhood vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella is linked to autism faces a hearing on Monday into charges of professional misconduct during ... via The Sydney Morning Herald
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is preventing an agency scientist from presenting the largest, most up-to-date study of popular painkillers like Bextra, Celebrex and Vioxx during an FDA meeting next week on heart risks posed by the drugs, a US senator charged.
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A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the U.S. government after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month, health officials said Tuesday.
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Tories say government negligent over bio-security at laboratory where disease leaked.
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The State Department is seeking clarification from China about the status of Zhao Yan, a New York Times researcher who reportedly was arrested in Shanghai on charges of passing state secrets to foreigners.
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LONDON -- Doctors working for the US military in Iraq collaborated with interrogators in the abuse of detainees at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, profoundly breaching medical ethics and human rights, a bioethicist charges in The Lancet medical journal.
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An opposition member of parliament has alleged that a government scientist who cast doubt on intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction may not have taken his own life.
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The acting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner on Monday disputed a published report that said agency officials knew before Oct. 5 that British health authorities might suspend
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Nobel Prize-winner James Watson is suspended by his research institution after making comments on the subject of race and intelligence.
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The leader of US Muslim organisation Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, reveals that he is seriously ill.
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The US government on Thursday confirmed that the head of Apex Digital, a US electronics distributor, had been detained in China, amid allegations of financial wrongdoing.
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Dr. David Graham, the Food and Drug Administration scientist who publicly criticized the agency&#39;s approach to drug safety during a congressional hearing last week, said
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The US trial of a Briton accused of offering to sell weapons to bring down planes may be delayed due to illness.
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A body part allegedly stolen in the US has been implanted in a patient in the UK, a hospital confirms.
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U.S. authorities conceded on Wednesday they made mistakes that worsened an international health alarm over an Atlanta lawyer who flew to and from Europe with a dangerous form of tuberculosis.