Japan normally takes many years, even decades, to approve foreign medications. But last year the middle-aged men who run the Ministry of Health and Welfare decided to rush the process for an American

efficient cooking and cleanliness : How can you protect yourself from campylobacter, the potentially fatal bacteria found by researchers in raw chicken and beef sold in Nairobi? The germ, which is

Improving health from a distance : Doctors at five distant sites in the United States will demonstrate how to use NASA telemedicine to diagnose patients, practice operations and train, using 3-D

Till a couple of years back, many patients coming to the Capital for medical treatment had to run from pillar to post for blood. Not any more-- a helpline is now proving a lifeline for those in

India has moved the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against South Africa for imposing anti-dumping duties on pharmaceutical imports like ampicillin and amoxyillin. As per a WTO report, India asked for

The heart of an infant continued to function for almost a year after the boy was pronounced brain dead in April last year, it was learned Saturday. This is the longest time recorded in Japan that the

WHO: India could have the largest number of diabetes patients by 2025, warns a World Health Organisation

The RNR research substation in Mongar, Bhutan will supply 2,000 kilogrammes of dried Artemisia Annual or quinghauo, one of the several aromatic medicinal plants, to a buyer in the United Kingdom.

A young mother holding her infant child went on prime time television in Pakistant for 14 seconds last night in the latest and most direct effort to tackle the country's population explosion. The

Researchers in the US have found that the body's immune system has a way to clear Hepatitis B virus from the body without killing infected cells, which could help lead to a treatment for the