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

Gene therapy might work in treating congestive heart failure, a chronic condition that kills half its victims within five years, researchers in the US have said. Adding extra copies of a gene called

The cup that cheers also keeps cancer away, according to scientists who say drinking tea, especially green tea, is linked to lower incidence of the disease. Researchers from Karolinska Institute in

Safdarjung Hospital doctors have successfully operated on a 22-year-old woman suffering from the blue blood disease. The case is said to be rare because patients of the disease do not live more than

During the past two weeks an undiagnosed disease that begins with flu and fever has claimed 34 lives in two remote mountainous Villages Development Committees (VDCs) of Nepal. The cause behind the

Madhya Pradesh has employed youth to tour remote rural areas on mopeds to ensure regular supply of contraceptives there. The project, funded by the Union ministry of health, was started through a

Amazon tribes asked the US patent and trademark office on Tuesday to revoke a patent granted to an American businessman on their most sacred plant, a vine that grows wild in the jungle. Shamans of