What does the maker of Les Paul guitars have in common with a food club that sold raw milk & organic coconuts? Not much, except that both have recently been raided by overzealous agents of the state. It seems that concept of “innocent until proven guilty” has been abandoned and a side-effect of this can be seen in the way agents have handled both Gibson Guitars...

One of the obsessions approaching fetish level among the Cinematheque boys in the Art School for boys at risk was their meds. They were in Europe, which meant that there was far less governmental censure, hurdles and general punishment, especially in France, but things got misplaced or miscalculated. Each boy carried a bag because his meds were there. This was in 2006...

Scientists in Canada have chanced upon a curious find: bedbugs carrying ‘superbugs’, a name for the bacteria resistant to antibiotics that has also been causing health concerns in Asia, particularly India. A study done by a team of researchers in Vancouver found that the bedbugs extracted from the skins and clothes of patients in the economically poor section...

‘Too much of a good thing’ is exactly what some British scientists are thinking right now. According to a published report in the medical journal, “The Lancet Infectious Diseases”, excessive use of antibiotics and improper treatment in India’s hospitals has spawned a new superbug. This superbug, categorized as an enzyme called NDM-1, has been...