at all costs: The Mathura refinery seems to be sparing no cost for sprucing up its image on the green front. It has invested Rs 18,620 million to minimise polluting emissions. For this purpose, it

Nepal has more than 5,200 AIDS patients and there may be between 5,000 to 10,000 HIV-positive cases. According to medical experts, by the end of the century, the country may have 22,000 to 50,000

The AIDS menace has once again occupied the centrestage. In one of the largest gatherings in recent years, over a 15,000-strong crowd of AIDS experts, activists, drug manufacturers and film stars met

Research in finding a cure for AIDS is moving at a fast pace. The role of fusin in helping the HIV virus attach itself to the cells was recently identified. Now researchers are saying that

Latest studies on rhesus monkeys point to the risk of contracting the AIDS virus via the mouth

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the first home screening test for the HIV virus, submitted recently to it by Elliot J Millenson, founder of University Hospital Laboratory of

In a continent reeling under the ever increasing burden Of AIDS, there is an expanding tribe of quacks and healers offering magic potions and easy cure for the disease. Thousands Of

William Snyder went through an open-heart surgery at St Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, US, in August 1984, and came out HIV -positive due to a pint of tainted blood that he received during the

With the discovery of the deadly protein fusin, which helps the HIV virus in penetrating immune system cells, scientists are feeling more optimistic about finding a cure for the life threatening disease

IT COULD be the key to unlocking the mystery of the AIDS virus. Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Maryland, have found a protein that enables