More than 500 people have fallen prey to the jaundice epidemic which has hit the southeast Rajasthan area of Khanpur. Three deaths have been reported so far from Khanpur town, where a team of

Fully 92.7 percent of nearly 100,000 tuberculosis patients in the western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have recovered thanks to a World Bank financed anti-tuberculosis program introduced in

Amputations of limbs affected by ganggrene due to diminished blood supply either with or without diabetes can now be completely avoided, thanks to a new surgical technique devised by Dr Tejinder

Judah Folkman, the Harvard scientist whose discovery of two powerful anticancer compounds caused a stir in cancer research last year, now stands to shake up the field of heart disease. In mouse

The most senior defector from the Soviet germ-warfare program, Kanatjan Alibekov says in a new book that Soviet officials concluded that China suffered a serious accident at one of its secret plants

Contaminated drinking water has left at least three persons dead and over 500 suffering from jaundice in Khanpur vilalge, Jhalwat district, during the last month. The disease is confined to Khanpur

A team of researchers headed by a non-resident Indian scientist in the United States has identified two compounds that may help fight cancer by cutting off a tumour's blood supply.Dr Prakash Gill and

The Union ministry of health and family welfare has granted Rs 1 crore this financial year for implementing a draft plan for prevention and control of dengue fever in Delhi. The draft plan has been

Mitral valvuloplasty, a breakthrough in the annals of heart surgery, has proved to be quite successful in the Indian scenario with over 100 such surgeries performed in the City's Manipal Hospital

Communicable diseases will be the main threat to the refugees currently fleeing Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned. The largest communicable disease