May 16 Senate Passes $15 Billion AIDS Bill The U.S. Senate passed a $15 billion White House-backed bill on Friday aimed at slowing the AIDS pandemic ravaging the developing world in what one senator called "the greatest humanitarian crisis in the 21st century."… Continue reading
May 16 Taiwan Health Minister Resigns Over Mishandling of SARS Taiwan's health chief resigned Friday over the worsening SARS crisis that has infected 274 people. The government moved quickly to fill the post, naming a noted, U.S.-educated epidemiologist. Continue reading
May 15 China Threatens Execution of Those Knowingly Spreading SARS As part of its effort to prevent the spread of SARS, the Chinese government announced on Thursday that anyone deliberately spreading the deadly respiratory illness would be punished by imprisonment or death. Continue reading
May 14 Guidelines Warn More Americans to Lower Their Blood Pressure Revised federal guidelines released Wednesday advise the 22 percent of American adults in a newly-created "prehypertension" category to lower their blood pressure through lifestyle changes in order to decrease their risk of heart disease and stroke. Continue reading
May 08 Watch Background: Coping With SARS The worldwide death toll from SARS rose above 500 today. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
May 07 China's Rural Areas Not Ready to Tackle SARS As Chinese officials voiced concern Wednesday over the possibility of severe acute respiratory syndrome spreading to rural areas, a WHO team prepared to visit one particularly vulnerable province. Continue reading
May 05 SARS Sparks Protest in China, Who to Help Taiwan Battle Disease As the number of severe acute respiratory syndrome cases in Taiwan and mainland China continued to rise, villagers in eastern China rioted Monday over their government's handling of the virus. Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch Coping With SARS in Toronto Betty Ann Bowser reports on how Toronto has been coping with the SARS outbreak. Continue watching
Apr 29 SARS-Related Travel Advisory for Toronto Lifted The World Health Organization announced Tuesday that starting Wednesday it would lift its warning against unnecessary travel to Toronto imposed last week amid fears over the spread of the SARS virus. Continue reading
Apr 29 Watch Coping with SARS in the U.S. Susan Dentzer reports on how the U.S. health care system treated the first person in the country to become ill with SARS and how through a combination of luck and vigilance that person recovered and did not spread the disease… Continue watching