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BY MONICA DOBIE
AN IN-DEPTH world analysis has concluded that although nurses taking on doctors’ duties provide a high quality care, they may neither save health care costs nor reduce a doctor’s workload.

The assessment for the UK-based Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews probed 16 studies involving more than 25,000 patients in Britain, the United States and Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED negotiations on promoting the mutual recognition (of qualification) agreements, which could cover the legal profession, should be launched following an European Union (EU)-United States summit in Washington next month, the European Commission has advised. In a detailed policy paper, preparing for the June 20 meeting in Washington, the Commission said negotiations should focus on sectors where an “economic interest or need” for such agreements “has been substantiated”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH hair-care giant L’Oréal has launched an alliance with United Nations (UN) cultural and scientific organisation UNESCO to train hundreds of thousands of hair stylists in passing on health advice about HIV/AIDS: not catching it and not passing it on.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S crime-fighting great and good met in Bangkok in April, at the United Nations’ 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. They decided rich countries should better help the poor to fight organised crime. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH hair-care giant L’Oréal has launched an alliance with United Nations (UN) cultural and scientific organisation UNESCO to train hundreds of thousands of hair stylists in passing on health advice about HIV/AIDS: not catching it and not passing it on.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has admitted “great relief” that the independent committee probing the Iraq Oil-for-Food programme scandal found no evidence of his wrongly influencing the award of a contract to a firm employing his son Kojo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representative report on trade barriers criticises Mexico’s 20% tax on beverages and syrups made with sweeteners other than cane sugar as a “violation” of world trade law, discriminating against US products including high fructose corn-syrup.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE STUDENT drinks market in the United States could be more lucrative than official statistics have suggested. A study in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research concludes college students underestimate volumes when asked how many drinks they consume, because the measures they pour are larger than standard amounts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of glycerol ester of gum rosin to adjust the density of citrus oils used in manufacturing beverages. The FDA, said a memorandum released by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has also ordered that the additive’s concentration may not exceed 100 ppm (parts per million).…

BY MARK ROWE
THE YEAR 2007 will be a significant one for Romania. It is the year that the country is scheduled to join the European Union (EU); it is also the year that Romania’s second nuclear power unit is expected to come on line.…