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Clinics throughout Asia and sub-Saharan Africa offering ineffective remedies for serious illnesses, putting lives at risk, researchers sayBritish scientists have appealed to the World Health Organisation to publicly condemn homeopathy as a treatment for serious diseases, such as HIV, TB and malaria.The researchers, many of whom have worked in developing countries, called on the WHO to act amid fears that vulnerable patients are dying after turning to homeopathic preparations instead of effective medicines.The WHO works with national organisations that promote homeopathy and other alternative medicines in their public health programmes.Homeopathy practitioners have opened clinics throughout Asian and sub-Saharan Africa and offer to treat patients with HIV, malaria, influenza and childhood diarrhoea, none of which have been shown to respond to homeopathy. Many patients are told that conventional drugs work only temporarily and that homeopathic preparations are cheap and effective alterna

CHAPTER 1 LOIS ROMANO: Welcome, Valerie Jarrett VALERIE JARRETT: Thank you. ROMANO: Senior Advisor to President Obama. Thanks for joining us today. JARRETT: Oh, my pleasure. ROMANO: Your portfolio includes Public Engagement, Women and Girls, and Intergovernmental Affairs, not to mention that yo...

Monday marks the end of the public comment period on land use changes proposed for the Main Post of San Francisco's Presidio - a deadline that may sound bureaucratic but in fact signals the next round in an acrimonious battle unlikely to end anytime soon. The...

NASA has found hundreds of planets within, and outside our solar system. Public release of this information has not been issued.Source: Justin MitchellPublished: May 31, 2009

CEO of NetEase.com William Ding and CEO of Blizzard Entertainment Mike Morhaime have jointly issued a public letter to the Chinese users of Blizzard Entertainment's online game World of Warcraft, saying that the game's new operator in Chinese mainland, NetEase.com, will open the first batch of its servers in late June 2009 and the remaining [...]

Yes, Susan Boyle actually lost 'Britain's Got Talent.' Just like Adam Lambert, who seemed destined to win 'American Idol,' Susan Boyle lost the public vote on 'Britain's Got Talent' and came in as the runner-up. The winner? A dance troupe...Source: saul relativePublished: May 31, 2009

Susan Boyle continues to make headlines after her shock defeat in the final of 'Britain's Got Talent' with papers suggesting the singing sensation was the victim of a public backlash as millions switched their votes to winning dance act Diversity. But Boyle could now be on her way across the Atlantic to 'conquer the U.S.'

The debate over Guantanamo and the use of torture was the subject of a heated debate at a conference held by New York University's Center on Law and security in Florence, Italy, last weekend. Europeans called for a public airing of the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies.

Iran executed in public three men convicted of involvement in a deadly mosque bombing in the southeast of the country, the official IRNA news agency reported yesterday. 'Three people convicted of being involved in the recent terrorist...

bernieS writes 'The Washington Post describes what happens when a construction backhoe accidentally cuts buried fiber so secret that it doesn't appear on public maps — and what happens when the Men in Black SUV's appear out of nowhere. Apparently, the numerous secret fiber and utility lines used by government intelligence agencies are being dug up with increasing frequency with all the increased construction projects in the DC area. It's amazing how quickly they get repaired!' of this story at Slashdot.