Marijuana tablets that relieve pain without giving a high are to be tested on people for the first time soon. In the study at the University of California some patients will be given the new

Hospitals in the Capital contunued to register an increase in the number of gastroenteritis and cholera cases, while the health department officials described the instances as "routine". The Delhi

WHO chief: Cigarettes should be subject to the same rules which apply to other forms of nicotine, such as patches and chewing gum, and treated as a drug, the director-general of the World Health

The US President, Mr Bill Clinton, has decided against destroying the remaining US stocks of the smallpox virus, claiming that, to do so, could harm scientific, health and national security

Roche, Switzerland's second biggest pharmaceutical company, has finally won US Food and Drug Administration approval to sell Xenical (Orlistat), a new type of anti-obesity drug, which many believe

The World Bank will provide Rs 1,250 million to improve and upgrade the institutions of basic health and primary education in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Pakistan), an official told Dawn. In the

Filaria is a great problem for the people in some parts of the Rangpur district of Bangladesh. At present about two thousand patients have been suffering from this

As scientists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scramble to identify a virus that has killed at least 100 people in Malaysia, some critics are posing another question : Why did

The US Supreme Court agreed to decide whether President Bill Clinton's decision to give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate nicotine as a drug in constitutional. The move is a

In order to prevent water-borne diseass in the Capital, the health departments of the Delhi Government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will now work in a more coordinated manner with the Delhi