Trade commissioner urges ministers to take advice from WHO and so break Doha deadlock .

EU and Africa plan co-operation on drug development

Today 39 pharmaceutical companies unconditionally dropped their case against the South African government. A turning point in the case may have been persuasive evidence that the companies have no economic basis for the huge prices they charge for AIDS drugs.

Scientists have compared reading European Union research proposals to coping with Foucault. We make an attempt to understand the latest one.

lites benefit? And what about drug resistance?

As the UK government considers a limited foot-and-mouth disease vaccination programme, there's evidence that the current vaccines aren't perfect but high doses could help stop transmission.

The UK could be preparing to vaccinate farm animals against foot-and-mouth disease. But will the vaccines be effective against the current strain?

. The decay of its genome mirrors an unfortunate collapse in interest in leprosy research, while disease incidence stays stubbornly high.

Epidemiology is the weak leak in understanding depleted uranium, says the World Health Organisation, while offering to plug the gap.

and useful technologies to farmers in the developing world.

Forthcoming WHO and UNEP reports won't answer the question of whether DU weapons have an impact on human health. There's still plenty of research needed, say UN agencies.

that's what's in Craig Venter's mind. Sandia, the US nuclear weapons lab, will make the first step towards his dream, along with Celera and Compaq.