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Marina Lemle
World needs renewed focus on ‘neglected diseases’
Medicines to treat common diseases in poorer countries tend to be old and are often ineffective. But the pharmaceutical industry has little incentive to research new drugs:…
Brazil stands to lose more than 40% of rainforest
Unless Brazil enforces existing conservation laws, it will lose more than 40% of its Amazon rainforest by 2050, say scientists. The predictions are among the first to emerge from…
Circumcised men less likely to get HIV, says SA study
Heterosexual men who are circumcised are less likely to contract HIV/Aids from their female partners, according to ground-breaking South African research. In 2002, the scientists…