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BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS at America’s St Louis University are destroying tumours with genetically engineered viruses that infect cancer cells whilst leaving healthy cells unharmed. Results published in the journal Cancer Research have claimed cancer cells are destroyed when the viruses reproduce themselves.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS at America’s St Louis University are destroying tumours with genetically engineered viruses that infect cancer cells whilst leaving healthy cells unharmed. Results published in the journal Cancer Research have claimed cancer cells are destroyed when the viruses reproduce themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has warned that the number of domesticated livestock breeds worldwide is declining sharply, with 1,350 of the roughly 6,300 FAO registered breeds threatened by extinction or already extinct. The problem has been discussed by a special FAO meeting of national coordinators on animal genetic resources, which is developing a global plan to halt their disappearance.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TREATING low-wage workers well provides substantial benefits to companies according to a recent American corporate study. Conducted for Corporate Voices for Working Families, it highlighted 15 company programmes ranging from subsidised child care at Bank of America to short term employee loans at Levi Strauss & Co.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A SATELLITE based monitor used to track the health of climbers on an expedition to Mount Everest will soon help British nurses better serve their patients.

The Health Monitoring Kit, developed by Canadian company March Networks, allows nurses to monitor their patients externally through a camera and a Internet broadband connection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THEY’RE not to everybody’s taste, we quite agree, but there’s no doubt that flavoured cigars have a very devoted band of followers and can no longer be dismissed as a passing fancy. Indeed after speaking to a number of the big players it is easy to gain the impression that the flavoured, (or aromatic), segment has (along perhaps with filters) been the only one to buck the cigar sector’s trend of falling or stagnant sales in recent years.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
SENDING employees abroad or setting up overseas branches always take some preparation and maybe the most important job is taking care of workers’ health needs. Not only must local employment laws be followed, but companies must ensure that they can manage the alien health risks faced abroad.…

BY MARK WILSON
AWASH with recently-passed legislation and newly-established Financial Investigation Units, the small nations of the Caribbean have transformed their money laundering controls since the mid-1990s. In 2000, five Caribbean island jurisdictions made up one-third of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of fifteen non-cooperative countries and territories, each of them with ‘serious systemic problems,’ in the words of a FATF review published on June 22 of that year.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
WHY do we change our cars so often? Most drivers spend between two to three years with their car before trading in for a new model, long before the average mechanical lifespan. Perhaps it is because every year car manufacturers claim to improve on vehicle performance, reliability, efficiency, safety and handling?…