The death of at least 13 children due to an as-yet unidentified illness over the last fortnight has flummoxed the medical community in Gurgaon. The children, all between two months and four years,

Following reports of jaundice deaths in city colonies, the Kalyan-Dombivili Municipal Council yesterday began a survey in its 96 wards. According to reports, 118 cases of Hepatitis B virus infection

Orissa is nowhere near eliminating leprosy - despite the work carried out by the State Health Department - after the sudden cut in the Central grant from Rs 153 lakh to Rs 70 lakh. According to

Noted social worker and pioneer of watershed development Anna Hazare has been conferred with the prestigious "Care International Humanitarian Award" for 1998. The award was announced by Country

The two-month-old United Parliamentary Forum (UPF) Government of Meghalaya is yet to take a stand on the controversial issue of commercial mining of uranium by the Uranium Corporation of India

Jaundice seems to be sweeping the suburbs of Dombivli, Kalyan, Ulhasnagar and Ambernath in the city. Over the past eight days, 14 people have died of the illness, and although private practitioners

US filter to be tested : The All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (ALIHPH), which conducts aresenic removal programmes in West Bengal, plans to test a US made filter, institute director

It was under pressing circumstances that Navin M Raheja approached the Supreme Court for redressal. His petition, going by the Supreme Court's response last fortnight-it has issued notices to the

Militancy in the North Eastern States has claimed yet another caualty : The HIV-AIDS campaign has virtually ground to a halt with the rise in militant inspired violence, just as some states are

Japanese scientists in Tokyo have created a miniature artificial chromosome which they hope would eventually be used to carry therapeutic genes for treating diseases like muscular