The United Nations Development Programme will provide fresh assistance worth around $ 3 million (more than Rs. 12.5 crores) over the next three years in support of collaborative initiatives

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi(MCD) has launched an action plan to control various communicable diseases in Delhi during 1999-2000.Known as 'Prevent-99', the core strategy of the action plan is

At least 500 people have fallen ill after inhaling ammonia leaking from a fertiliser factory in Bangladesh's Narsingdi district, the police and officials said on Wednesday. They said the gas, which

Cigars and pipes are just as lethal as cigarettes and should be subject to equally tough health warnings and advertising bans, says a new study issued this week by an arm of the World Health

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine may have found the first clue as to how the body can successfully fight of infection by the hepatitis C virus. By studying chimpanzees that have

The USAwill never look quite the same again. Marlboro man and Joe Camal, for decades landmarks of the US skyline and popular culture, have been banished. Within two days all giant billboards

The armed forces estimate that there are "at least" 6,000 HIV positive defence personnel (equivalent to two brigades) which could increase to "a division strength" (about 20,000) in the next few

Cigars and pipes are just as lethal as cigarettes and should be subject to equally tough health warnings and advertising bans, says a new study issued by a World Health Organization arm. "They cause

SmithKine Beecham, the UK drugs company is ditching a potentiall important product for the cippling bone condition osteoporosis. The company was abadoning development of idoxifene as a treatment of

Under a provision of the 1949 Geneva Conventions governing the conduct of war, doctors and other health care professionals are supposed to be exempt from deliberate hinderance or attack. But in