The multinational company Trafigura did a nifty deal in 2006, buying a large amount of coker gasoline from Mexican oil…
In March 2006 six healthy men, all under the age of 40, signed up as volunteers in a drug trial…
Towards the end of 2002 reports began to emerge from China of a virulent and potentially fatal respiratory disease that…
Meningococcal meningitis is a bacterial infection of the slender lining that envelops the spinal cord and the brain. Even if…
When the Zaragoza Clinic’s electron accelerator malfunctioned and was repaired in early December 1990, it was fortunate that the machine’s…
In scientific terms Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) are Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs). Put simply this…
Nothing goes to waste where people are living on the breadline, and few opportunities to make a little extra money…
It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the AIDS epidemic began. The first death assumed to be caused by Acquired…
It started with the death of eight-year-old Jaime Garcia in his mother’s arms on the way to hospital. When doctors…
Described as ‘the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS’, the tainted ‘Hemofil’ blood product that was used…