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Infections following treatment in clinics, retirement homes, and long-term care facilities are a grave problem for patients, and resistant germs can be particularly devastating. “High infection rates are in particular ...

A multidisciplinary team from the Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich (ETH) and Lausanne (EPFL) are using field studies to discover the effects of dams on ecosystems in the Zambezi ...

As the first anniversary of the August 2007 subprime mortgage meltdown approaches, and world markets still reel, you would think that the people who have received much of the blame ...

China's Olympic challenge China's big Olympic tests Clegg urges PM: don't endorse these tainted Olympics Leading article: Enjoy the Olympics, and hope Mayor in Beijing to promote London Economic View: ...

LOS ANGELES, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Mark Spitz has rounded on Olympics chiefs for failing to invite him to Beijing for swimmer Michael Phelps' quest to break his record gold ...

There are many disturbing things about the Olympics - the unquenchable desire of male sprinters to show us their bare chests, the pegs on the synchronised swimmers' noses and Sharron ...

On August 8, at the invitation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) whose headquarters are in Lausanne, Couchepin will attend the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. In Vietnam, ...

BEIJING : The International Olympic Committee decided Saturday to disqualify the U.S. men's 1,600-meter relay team that won the gold medal in the 2000 Games because one member, the sprinter ...

More and more Indian tourists are making a beeline for the Swiss Alps -- thanks to Bollywood which has now made the landlocked European nation one of its most favourite ...

BUCHAREST, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) - - Romanian athletes Elena Antoci and Cristina Vasiloiu, who are suspected of using EPO, announced on Friday that they are withdrawing from all official sports ...