Concerned over the reported vulnerability of extinction of a number of medicinal plants in the country, the Union ministry of health and family welfare has drawn up a prohibitory action plan to

Sixteen years after it was first conceived, the Subodh Mitra Cancer Hospital and Research Centre finally started functioning in Salt Lake's Sector III today. The hospital-cum-research-centre has all

The prices of 20 commonly-used medicines, including Erythrocin, Novalgin, insulin, Dettol and Betnovate, will be raised, while that of three will be lowered. The new prices, announced by the National

Thailand's health ministry will use part of an aid package from Japan to hire 300,000 villagers temporarily as rat catchers, the Bangkok Post reported today. Villagers will be paid 80 baht ($2.10) a

There is hope for those suffering a brain stroke or 'brain attack' with Indraprastha Apollo hospital in the capital recently setting up the first stroke unit in India. Patients being administered

Apollo Hospitals in association with Indian Overseas Bank(IOB) on Thursday announced the launh of a healthcare scheme, the 'Arogya Saving

There has been a three-fold increase in the number of AIDS cases in Tamil Nadu, said Tamil nadu State Aids Control Society (TANSACS) project director, K.

New findings about the structure of prions - the agent responsible for diseases such as BSE, CJD and scrapie - has raised the possibility of breeding animals resistant to mad cow disease. Researchers

For the first time in two decades, most of the leading US Republican presidential candidates are trying to push an abortion ban off the top of the party's agenda, removing from the political

Ten pharmaceutical companies and the Wellcome Trust of London said that they would pool their efforts to create a fine-scale map of the human genome. Their goal is to speed the discovery of the