Cancer and respiratory diseases remained the biggest killers of Chinese people in cities and rural areas respectively, according to a Health Ministry report. "Some 139 out of every 10,000 Chinese

Consider it a sign of the times. Nowadays, Mechair Viravaidya - known as Asia's "Mr. Condom" for his pioneering AIDS-awareness crusade-no longer spends most of his time preaching public health and

Unseasonably high temperatures gripping South Korea for about a week have been causing frequent outbreaks of epidemics this year, putting health authorities on alert. The Health and Welfare Ministry

People at risk of having a heart attack could be identified by measuring the temperature of their blood vessels, according to a report in the journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers in

Across much of Bangladesh hundreds of thousands of people have been exposed to yet another environmental problem e.g., a serious arsenic contamination of groundwater in parts of this country. The

Delhi high court on wednesday issued notice to directory of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) asking him to place before it the inquiry report on the adulteration of mustard oil which last

Six months on, the first hand transplant from a dead person has been deemed a success, surgeons said in the latest edition of The Lancet. New Zealander Clint Hallam, 48, who lost his right hand in an

Defying international pleas, President Clinton has decided to retain America's sample of smallpox virus, Administration officials said. The decision, which is to be announced, is certain to be

Polio vaccination coverage from March 16 to 21 in Sindh, Pakistan was evaluated to be above 90 per cent, WHO sources said on Wednesday. A preliminary statistical assessment of 30 clusters of houses

Leprosy nearly eliminated : One of the world's most dreaded diseases -- leprosy -- is nearing elimination worldwide as a public health problem, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).