It’s estimated that millions of people worldwide take part in clinical trials, but when things go wrong in medical research there can be tragic consequences. Annabelle Quinceinvestigates the ethical dilemmas of testing drugs on humans. In January, a clinical trial in France went badly wrong. One young man died and several others suffered brain damage. The drug for treating mood ...

In a dream world we’d get to choose exactly which areas on our body we shed excess weight from first. It seems to make sense: you want to get rid of trouble spots on your thighs, so you take up jogging. Carrying some excess baggage around the midsection? Must be time to increase the sit-ups and throw in some planks ...

One person was shot during a high school basketball game here Friday night. The shooting occurred around 6:20 during a game between two out-of-town teams. Two people reportedly got into a disagreement. One person is in custody, Palestine Assistant Police Chief Jeffrey Powell told our sister station KYTX in Tyler. Palestine Police Capt. James Muniz said that the person shot ...

Standard & Poor’s released its latest update on a number of oil- and gas-producing nations yesterday, slashing credit ratings left right and center. But one energy giant stood out with a glowing report and no action taken: Qatar. Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman were all cut, while Russia’s rating was maintained, but with a negative outlook. Even with much ...

Iran is helping the Houthis and supporters of the ousted president commit “heinous crimes” in Yemen. This is according to Mohammed Abdul Majid Qubati, Yemen’s information minister, who also thanked his counterparts from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for discussing the Yemeni situation at their third extraordinary meeting in Riyadh. “The Houthis and supporters of the deposed (president Ali Abdullah) ...

With next week’s calendar full of economic data releases and speeches by economic policymakers, investors have been poised to watch the Federal Reserve for clues about the U.S. central bank’s next move, but an unexpectedly hot reading on inflation on Friday will further sharpen that focus. After coming into 2016 with an expectation of three or four interest rate hikes ...

Lebanon will fully mobilize its political, financial and judicial resources to complete the battle against terrorism financing, Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil said Friday. “Our endeavor doesn’t aim to target any entity but merely to clarify matters concerning Lebanon’s stance on terrorism and money laundering, which are very critical at this stage,” Khalil said as he addressed the World Union ...

Egyptians have always been ill-served, at best, and brutalized, at worst, by their leaders, whether Ottoman, British, Nasserist or under President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. So instead of asking why Egypt’s revolution of five years ago failed, let’s point a finger at the sorry parade of post-revolutionary leaders who have presumed to lead but failed just as their predecessors did. ...

High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. International food commodities trader Bunge said it still intended to deliver a cargo of wheat to Egypt after the government rejected it in a case closely watched in the grain market. The New York-listed company this week ...

Thousands of doctors in Egypt have staged a rare protest against police abuses after accusations that two doctors were beaten up by policemen in a Cairo hospital. The doctors’ union also voted to offer free services in public hospitals and to call a partial strike in two weeks time unless the officers involved are held accountable, measures are taken to ...