PARIS The traders sell an array of bushmeat: monkey carcasses, smoked anteater, even preserved porcupine.But this isn't a roadside market in Africa — it's the heart of Paris, where a new study has found more than five tons of bushmeat slips through the city's main airport each week.Experts suspect similar amounts are arriving in other European hubs as well — an illegal trade that is
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (AFP) A US health panel Thursday voted unanimously to allow the sale of a controversial French birth control pill, which can prevent pregnancy for up to five days after unprotected sex.The final decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not expected for several months, but the so-called morning-after pill Ella got the nod of approval by 11 medical experts on
GENEVA (Reuters) The first international standard to tackle discrimination against HIV/AIDS sufferers in the workplace won overwhelming approval from the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Thursday.The non-binding recommendation urges countries to set up AIDS prevention programs in places of employment and help infected workers be productive for as long as possible.Government officials, e
WASHINGTON ConAgra Foods is recalling all Marie Callender's brand cheesy chicken and rice frozen meals after they have been possibly linked to a salmonella outbreak in 14 states.The company said it was recalling the meals after it was informed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of a possible link between the meals and 29 illnesses.Eight of those sickened reported eating th
NEW YORK (Reuters) Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG won wider U.S approval for its leukemia drug Tasigna to treat a rare form of the blood cancer at an earlier stage of the disease, the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.Tasigna had previously been approved to treat adults with chronic myeloid leukemia, or CML, in patients who could not tolerate or were no longer responding to treatment w
The organic label skews people's perceptions about food in ways that might promote obesity, a new study finds. The results show people sometimes assume organic foods are lower in calories and so it's OK to indulge in organic cookies more often than regular ones.Exercise was also deemed less necessary after eating organic desserts. The findings are in line with previous work showing food label
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) A new, longer-lasting emergency contraceptive pill moved closer to the U.S market on Thursday after U.S medical advisers unanimously backed the one-dose drug as a safe and effective option to prevent an unplanned pregnancy.Data for the drug, made by the French drugmaker HRA Pharma but to be sold by Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc in the United States, was compelling
NEW DELHI (Reuters) Indian drugmaker Dr.Reddy's Laboratories said a U.S court has granted a preliminary injunction against the company from distributing a generic version of allergy drug Allegra-D.Dr.Reddy's disagrees with the court's decision and intends to appeal, the company said in a statement over the weekend.The injunction was sought by Albany Molecular and Sanofi Aventis against the Indi