News tagged with 'Science'

Bayer must pay two farmer $2 million for contaminating their fields with genetically engineered (GE) rice, which contains a novel protein that resists Bayer's herbicide sprayed after the corn grows. The company profits on both ends, but farmers lost their ability to export to countries that ban GE foods.

XMRV is a retrovirus that embeds in the body and is linked to both chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer. Whether it is a cause or a correlation remains a mystery.

Anyone from a cashier to a surgeon involved in the medical field can opt out of treating a patient under a new rule of conscience, approved in the 11th hour by the Bush administration.  Those expected to be most impacted are low-income women who do not have the luxury of shopping around for the practitioner of their choice, or those in the ER.