Maria Ester, 23, lives in a crumbling, one-room stucco cottage with her mother and daughter in Santiago del Estero, an Argentine province northwest of Buenos Aires. Ester's 5-year-old daughter and assorted neighborhood children crowd the room, and a sagging mattress that smells like it belongs to a young bed wetter is the only place for a visitor to sit down.

US: Research Center Tied to Drug Company by GARDINER HARRIS, The New York Times November 24th, 2008 Court documents reveal that Dr. Joseph Biederman, a renowned child psychiatrist, pushed Johnson & Johnson to fund a research center whose goal was “to move

Richard Neri, the Brooklyn cop who shot and killed 19-year-old Timothy Stansbury on the roof of a Bed-Stuy apartment building last winter, has been elected to a police union office. In his paid position as a Patrolmen's Benevolent Association delegate in Brooklyn North, Neri will be the new go-to guy for officers in his precinct.

In what some are describing as a new tactic employed by Haiti’s notorious national police to control the slums of Port-au-Prince, last week officers were seen distributing machetes to a group of residents in the impoverished neighborhood of Bel Air–setting them loose on their neighbors. Human rights groups have long accused the Haitian police of terrorizing poor neighborhoods believed to be power bases for exiled President Aristide ever since the February 2004 coup, and in the months leading up to the elections planned for this fall, activists say police oppression has increased.

Haiti’s interim government, led by a prime minister hand-picked and hand-fed by the Bush administration, has seen fit to jail a potential presidential candidate. Father Gerard Jean-Juste, a Catholic priest, may be the only figure one large faction of the Fanmi Lavalas party could accept as a candidate in elections planned for this October and November.

Medical trials are necessary for the development of new medicines. However, certain requirements have to be met, including steps to ensure the right to health of children taking part in medical trials. These include, but are not limited to, obtaining the prior informed consent of either children or their legal guardians.

Just twenty minutes from Haiti’s National Palace, past skeletal dogs and bullet-hole-ridden cement walls, winds a narrow path that leads to a cock-fighting ring. The tin roofed atrium serves as a community center, and at the top of crumbling pink and sea-foam painted risers perch the leaders of the local pro-Aristide Famni Lavalas cell.