A brand-new drug can be like a license to print money. It certainly worked that way for Eli Lilly. When the company launched the anti depressant Prozac in 1987, nobody else had anything quite like

Eating as much as an egg a day doesn't appear to increase your risk of developing heart disease or suffering a stroke, according to a study published in a recent issue of the Journal of the American

A new method of screening embryos reignites an old debate by sidestepping the ban on sex-determination tests.

Scientists in the US have found that children who sleep with a light on are more likely to grow up short-sighted and having to wear glasses. Children under the age of two who slept, with a light on

Jazz lover Margaret Peterson's smouldering 40-year affair with cigarettes has taken her breath away. Ms Peterson is one of more than a thousand Australians suing the tobacco giants Philip Morris,

A gene that causes the body to kill insulin-producing cells has been identified by researchers who say the finding is a key step toward a vaccine to prevent childhood diabetes.

A gene that causes the body to kill insulin-producing cells has been identified by researchers, who say the finding is a key step toward a vaccine to prevent child-hood diabetes.Using a strain of

Vietnam's death toll from malaria has reached 44 so far this year, 2.5 times higher than the same period of 1998, an Institute of Malaria official said on Saturday.The official said 74,562 people

Residents of Ram Colony, West Mambalam(Chennai), alleged that about 20 persons have been affected by viral fever following supply of contaminated drinking water to their

The government of Philippines estimates that the country's population will reach nearly 75m this year. It is growing at the rate of 2.3% a year, which is rapid when compared with its South-East Asian