Researchers claimed a breakthrough in preventing the spread of HIV , the virus that causes AIDS, when the results of astudy using an experimental vaccine on 16, 000 volunteers in Thailand showed therisk of infection had been cut by 31%.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) published their opinion ona French study that found severe impacts onthe health of rats fed with genetically engineered maize or exposed to a low dosage of herbicides.
Participants came from the Framingham Heart Study, a large study that has been going on since 1948 to look at heart disease risk factors in Framingham, Massachusetts.
The main beach in Weston-super-Mare received a pass in the MCS Good Beach Guide study, which focuses entirely on water quality standards and therisk of sewage pollution.