International campaigns and the celebrated years of the girl child don't reach this obscure landscape. In the tribal belt of Nalgonda, the girld child is a curse and female infanticide is common

New power projects, dams, industries or any other construction project will soon require a clearance from the Union ministry of health. The draft of the new health policy says all such projects would

In separate studies, four teams in the US have unveiled long-held secrets that may prove the undoing of Alzheimer's

An epidemic of viral influenza and other diseases sweeping parts of Nepal has claimed 820 lives in the past two months, medical authorities were reported saying on Saturday.

Contrary to popular belief, it is not only heart attacks that are becoming a threat to the people today, but more and more are becoming victims of stroke or a brain attack. "Stroke is an emergeny,

Researchers said on Thursday they had found a second gene for good motherhood and that males appear to have the upper hand when sexes battle over how much time to spend with the babies.They said both

A new virus that seems to jump from pigs to human beings in causing an encephalitis epidemic in Malaysia that has already killed 92 people, the US centre for Disease Control and prevention reported

An extensive fumigation programme has begun in Sydney following the discovery that the dreaded disease-carrying Asian tiger mosquito has landed in the Olympic city. The insect which could carry

Nepal Dairy Association (NDA), an organisation of private dairies, has blamed the polluted drinking water supplied by the Nepal Water Supply Corporation (NWSC) for the bacteria found in the dairy

It will doubtless come as something of a shock to discover that mobile telephones might be good for you. But the most recent research, by Alan Preece of Bristol University and his colleagues, could