The Delhi Government will launch a Five Year AIDS Control Project in the Capital from April 16. The project will include setting up of condom vending machines at different places in the city and

The people of the northern States of Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and western UP are more prone to development of kidney stones due to diet they follow, according to Dr K.M. Singh, head of the

At last month's American Physical Society meeting, Dartmouth researcher Mary-Ann Mycek described a new laser system that will help doctors identify a malignant tumor without having to do a biopsy.

Researchers from Zymo Genetics Inc., a Seattle biotechnology company, have identified three new compounds, each of which stimulates new bone growth in animals. If they prove to do the same in humans,

More than one million people die from work every year, more than those killed from road accidents, war, violence or AIDS, the International Labour Organization said. The breakdown works out to 3,000

Scientists from the Osaka University Research Institute for Microbial Diseases in Japan said they have found a new protein that controls a communications pathway related to structural changes as

Over one million work-related deaths occur annually according to ILO estimates and hundreds of millions of workers suffer from workplace accidents and occupational exposure to hazardous substances

A court fight over New York's share of the national tobacco settlement threatens to delay distribution of the money for all 46 of the states involved, lawyers and advocates involved in the

Fibroids affect 20 percent to 40 percent of women over 35. Fibroid embolization, which reduces the size of tumors by blocking their blood supply, is an alternative to major surgery for some women.

A new report from Norway has described the large study to provide information about the lives of women with birth defects, and the health of their children. The women are less likely than others to