The United States has acccepted India's patents amendment law granting exclusive marketing rights to foreign agrochemical and pharma inventions, setting at rest speculation that it was raising yet

The Food and Drug Administration of Thailand will ban the advertising of all medicinal and cosmetic products made from kwaao khruea, a Thai herb said to help stimulate sexual hormones, for fear the

The number of dengue fever and haemorrhagic fever cases have increased 20-fold in the last 12 years with six states of Malaysia in danger of facing serious outbreaks. Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui

The Supreme Court has offered itself as the next battleground in the tobacco wars in U.S., saying it would decide whether the Food and Drug Administration had authority to regulated tobacco products

Until now, Americans looking for a pill to help them lose weight have had only one option: appetite suppressants. But that has changed. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first in a

Removing the sulphur from gasolinemay mean higher prices at the pump, but the cost of treating asthma and other respiratory ills is even more expensive, according to a study presented early this

The first comprehensive medical study to identify the prevalence of cancer among employees of the Tarapur Atomic Power Station(TAPS) has found six cases - an "insignificant" proportion of its

One of Africa's unique trees, Prunus Africana, is threatened with extinction due to demand in Europe and America for a medicinal extract produced from its bark. "Prunus Africana was once well

Gro Harlem Brundtland, director-general of the World Health Organisation, opened a new front in the WHO's campaign against smoking by calling for tobacco products to be regulated like other drugs.

The District Administration's order banned the sale of locally made cold drinks, use of unsampled ice bars and cut vegetables and fruits in view of the summer season and attendant diseases being