Thailand is stepping up vaccinations and sterilisation of millions of dogs to achieve a zero death rate from rabies by 2000, a newspaper said on

Five infants have died, 50 are in hospitals; child export racket tells story of not just greed but of a people caught in poverty

At least 32 people have died of epidemic measles in various villages in the Dailekh district, 370-km north-west of Kathmandu in the past one week, state radio was quoted as saying on

The spread of Monkey fever in Puttur and Sullia taluk are causing concern especially to the people living in forest areas, as already two deaths have been reported from Balapa village near

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