Dutch health authorities, still reling from the world's worst outbreak of Legionnaries' disease, said they had found bacteria causing the potentially fatal illness at a thermal spa in a southern

Over three thousand scientific articles on mental health, spanning over 16,000 pagers and 15 years, is now available on CD ROM.The CD ROM titled NeuroMed, the first of its kind for any field of

Lung cancer will most likely overtake stomach cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related death in Japan this year, according to government data Friday. The Health and Welfare Ministry said lung

Legions of Asian youngsters are dying every year in an AIDS epidemic aggravated by the economic crisis, which looks set to rival the dire situation in sub-Saharan Africa, UN experts said. The south

The fifth time was lucky for the Michigan prosecutors. On March 26th a jury found Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Thomas Youk, a Michigan man suffering from the advanced

Australian scientists are on a rescue mission to save millions of families in Bangladesh and India from death or serious illness caused by arsenic in their drinking water. Led by federal science

The concept of regenerative medicine-using the body's own stem cells and growth factors to repair tissues - has come closer to reality with a discovery about the special human cells from which all

Five more people have died in Malaysia of a virus carried by pigs, taking the death toll to 84, a news report said. The victims who died were either pig farmers or farm hands in Negri Sembilan state,

JE, which is caused by a mosquito born virus carried by infected pigs, first broke out in the north of Malaysia, five months ago. Since then 58 people have died, 43 of them in Negri Sembian, south of

Transgene vaccine, a sister concern of hyderabad-based Transgene Biotek , has sold its technology for making Hepatitis B vaccine to Pune-based Serum Institute. The deal is estimated at Rs 15