A highly rare gastro-jejunosteomy surgery wherein the oesophagus and stomach of the patient were reconstructed from her large and small intestine respectively, was successfully performed at Jivraj

Study : Some 10 million tobacco-related deaths could have been prevented over the past four years if cigarette taxes were hiked 10 per cent per package, the World Bank reported

The number of national immunisation days for polio in India may be doubled to four rounds to meet the 2000-end deadline for eradication of polio, according to the World Health Organisation. Each

A cholera outbreak in northeastern Cambodia has killed 54 rural villagers and left another 827 infected with the deadly bacteria, health officials said on

India has an estimated four million people afflicted with HIV, the highest in the world. The AIDS pandemic is spreading so fast that the number could cross 12 million mark by the beginning of the new

The World Health Organisation(WHO) has set up a quality assurance system to ensure that only good quality drugs are purchased for use in government-run hospitals and public health centres. A part of

A cholera outbreak in northeastern Cambodia has killed 54 villagers and left another 827 infected with the deadly bacteria, health officials said today. Cholera cases were first reported in

Despite availability of sufficient funds from the Centre under the National Malaria Eradication Programme to the State every year, malaria has taken an epidemic form, particularly in the six

The KLM Airways may be known for their "world wide relaibility" but a diabetes patient travelling with it has found it otherwise. He suffered kidney failure due to the meal served on board.Mr Jagdish

The number of AIDS cases in the country has increased by about 14 per cent compared to last year but malaria cases have shown a decline.Cases of persons infected with the AIDS-causing human