...sium-rich foods, including fruits and vegetables, have long been recommended as a dietary defense against heart disease and other chronic illnesses. The new research is one of the first and largest U.S. studies to look at the relationship of salt, potassium and heart disease deaths. “If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it’s worse than either one on its own,” said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City’s health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt. He co-wrote a commentary published with the st...

LONDON (AP) ― Gilead Sciences Inc., one of the world’s biggest producers of AIDS drugs, will allow some of them to be made by generic manufacturers - potentially increasing their availability in poor...ey for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by things like taxing airplane tickets. Among the partnership’s 29 member countries, only Chile, France, Korea, Mali and Niger are actually implementing the airli...

SANDWICH, England (AFP) ― Choi Kyung-ju believes the demanding conditions at this week’s British Open can level the playing field to the benefit of the Asian contingent at Royal St. Georges. The vet...make Asia proud,” added Choi, who finished tied for 22nd on his last appearance at Royal St. George’s in 2003. Choi is part of a sizeable Korean contingent at the Open which also includes Asia’s firs...

A lawyer is pushing for a class action suit against Apple after he won a court battle last month over the iPhone’s location tracking. Apple Korea recently paid about 1 million won in compensation to attorney Kim Hyung-suk following a lower court’s ruling that the smartphone’s software violated his privacy. Kim, 31, and his company MiRaeLaw on Thursday began to collect applications for a collect...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab have come up with "social x-ray specs" that can interpret others’ facial expressions, according to reports. The creator of the gl...own facial expressions. After analyzing the expression, the glasses will display assess the person’s feelings in one of the three colors, red, yellow and green. Then users will be given, through an e...

...d an arrest warrant for a key suspect and booked without detention three others who assisted the crime. They are suspected of beating the 21 year-old woman, surnamed Lee, for not following the group’s rules, on July 2. They initially reported to the police that she was murdered by a thief. Later neighbors told police that they had heard women fighting at that time. Testimonies also differed amo...

Korea regrets Japan’s boycott of Korean Air in Dokdo spat The Korean government expressed its regret on Thursday after Japan reportedly instructed diplomats not to use Korean Air planes in protest o... 11 and notified that Japanese Foreign Ministry employees will not be taking its flights. “Japan’s protest with Korea’s national airline flying over Korean territory is unacceptable,” a Foreign Min...