Too much of mercury causes infertility in men. And it can also come in the fish you eat

the drug proscar has been shown to reduce the need for surgery to treat enlarged prostrate glands. In a new study, the men who took the drug required prostrate-reduction surgery only half as often

to combat the spurious medicines that have flooded the tribal belts of south Bihar, the health department has planned to launch a massive hunt for the manufacturers responsible for marketing these

Manufacturing drugs to fight obesity may become easier after the discovery of a protein

A REPORT written by leading pharmacologists claims that about 20 per cent of the drugs prescribed in Germany offer no real clinical benefits. The report says that distinguishing between effec-tive

two anti-obesity drugs are to be withdrawn from worldwide sale amid growing evidence that they may caused heart abnormalities. The us Food and Drug Administration has said that there is

Researchers say that obesity drugs are harmful for health

THE latest source that promises new hope for cancer patients is an African tree. A drug derived from the bark of the African bush willow has been found to hamper blood supply to cancer cells.

The Gujarat unit of People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) recently filed a petition in the High Court of Gujarat against the state government, the commissioner of industries and

The Earth's genetic resources of plants and animals exist mainly in the developing South. The Convention on Biological Diversity, which came into force in December 1993, stipulated that if any

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