Dengue diaries

LIKE a thief in the night, mosquitoes that transmit dengue abound in the city this rainy season causing alarm and concern among many Dabawenyo parents. read more

2010 Reith Lecture Series: Scientific Horizons

Part One: Scientific Citizens. In the first of this year's Reith Lectures, Lord Martin Rees explores the challenges facing science in the 21st century. We are increasingly turning to government and the media to explain the risks we face. But in the wake of public confusion over issues like climate change, the swine 'flu vaccine and, more recently, Iceland's volcanic ash cloud, Martin Rees calls ...

CMP Therapeutics Appoints Dr Neill Moray Mackenzie as CEO

LONDON, July 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- CMP Therapeutics (CMPT) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Neill Moray Mackenzie to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Dr Mackenzie brings to CMPT a long record of executive board level management within the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries at companies including Cambridge Genetics Ltd, Oxford Biomedica plc (an LSE listed company ...

Flexible health care spending rules getting trickier in 2011

Items such as allergy pills and heartburn medication will soon be a little trickier to buy via flexible spending accounts.

Health Chat

Do Non-Smokers Get Emphysema? My mother has had a hiatus hernia for many years and now has been diagnosed with emphysema although she never smoked.