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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

The World Bank will provide 300 million dollar during 1999-2000 to Pakistan for expanding phase-2 of the Social Action Programme (SAP). Informed sources said on Monday that a high level World Bank

Malaysia resorts to mass slaughter in a struggle to contain an outbreak of a deadly virus that is plaguing its pigs, worrying its people and threatening its tourism and export industries : a

Delegates from more than 170 countries have suspended negotiations on new proposals to curb global population without tackling the key issue of money - and still divided over sex education and

A popular technique to help infertile men become fathers, injecting individual sperm into individual eggs, alters the fertilization process, researchers have found. They said there was no evidence so

A strain of last year's deadly "bird flu" is back, but this time authorities say they're confident there won't be another round of human and animal casualties. Mainland Chinese farmers might take a

Malaysian health officials said on Sunday they hope to finish slaughtering some 830,000 pigs within two weeks in a battle to curb a viral epidemic that has killed 85 people. More than 430,000 pigs

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