This week we take a look at re-emerging diseases: illnesses that everyone thought had been practically wiped out, yet are now rearing their heads once again.
Thousands of firefighters, police officers and emergency crews who fought to save lives at the World Trade Center are now fighting to save their own, as they battle ailments caused from inhaling toxic dust as the buildings crumbled. It took the government nine years to pass a bill guaranteeing treatment and compensation for the so-called First Responders from 9/11.
The Mediator affair continues to haunt France's second largest pharmaceutical, Servier. New revelations allege that the company falsified documents to get the pill marketed as a diabetic drug although they were aware of its appetite-suppressant qualities. Mediator was pulled off the shelves in 2009 by French health authorities amid concerns that it had fatal side-effects. We take a closer look at the latest developments.
Jacques Chirac can skip his corruption trial. Proceedings will go ahead without the former French leader due to his poor health. Also, Dominique Strauss-Kahn returns to France hoping to restore his reputation after a sex scandal in the United States. Finally, a team of scientists working just outside Paris has successfully injected a patient with synthetic blood.
A World Health Organisation report has proclaimed the French as the most likely to suffer a depressive episode in their lifetime. This week we investigate whether the French are indeed the world champions of misery and if so, what can be done to change it?
First, there is heated debate in France over euthanasia after a doctor is accused of helping his patients to end their lives. Next up, French bank Société Générale denies speculation that it is in financial trouble. Finally, French investors are snapping up an original piece of real estate.
Four major US tobacco companies have filed a suit against the government's food and drug watchdog over new requirements that cigarette packs, cartons and advertising must display graphic warnings by September 22, 2012.
Thousands of people gathered in front of the municipal government office in China’s northeastern port city Dalian on Sunday to demand the relocation of a nearby petrochemical plant after a violent storm sparked fears of a toxic spill.
We look at how one of the richest country on the African continent is failing to take care of its new mothers. Also, a landmark UN report reveals that the government of Nigeria and oil giant Shell are behind an oil spill which may require the biggest clean-up the world has ever seen. Finally, police in Rwanda save a baby gorilla from poachers and becoming somebody's lunch.
