The World Health Organization (WHO) is sustaining its campaign against childhood obesity to prevent the alarming increase of the diabetic population.

My curiosity has been aroused by a newspaper article I read several days ago stating that Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukranian opposition leader, has some health problems because he was poisoned by government agents with dioxin. What is dioxin? What health problems does it cause? — Hector B., Makati City.

A fully-equipped Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) facility at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) located in Alabang, Muntinlupa was inaugurated by the Department of Health last week.

Biotechnology is at the heart of every day consumables from your cosmetic make up, perfumes, fragrances, oils, waxes, dyes, rubber, to what you eat – gelatin, dried mangoes, bread, wine, dairy products, even ice cream, to life savings drugs, diagnostic tests, and even medical equipment. Biotechnology allows us to derive natural components, develop products, manufacture ingredients from plants and animals that are incorporated to our everyday products.

The art of drinking tea relaxes even before the first sip. At first sip, the liquid subtly assails one’s senses. The sense of smell, touch and even sight conspire to allow one to savor that cupful of contentment called tea.

NEW YORK (AP) — Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a seven-year-old girl in Germany, in what’s apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human.