The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has created a National Illness Assistance Fund for poor patients which allows the Medical Superintendent (MS) of Central Government Hospitals to release

Hyperactivity and lack of concentration among today's children, largely an offshoot of an increasingly fast-paced world , can now be remedied through a memory-enhancing drug owing its genesis to

It is a common, yet horrifying image. A traffic accident, a shooting, a all or a stabbing. And the victim lies dead in a pool of blood, life drained away by severe hemmorrhaging that could not be

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