The UK government has refused to end quarantine restrictions for domestic animals imported into Britain from North America because of the prevalence of rabies in the US and Canada. The much

Malaysia on Monday advised thousands working in the pig-breeding industry to wear eye goggles, face masks and plastic gloves as it struggled to combat two viruses blamed for killing 63

Apple-shaped children --those with more fat around the midsection-- have more heart disease risk factor than their pearshaped peers, a study reported recently.

The first Budget of the ruling Congress government has envisaged ambitious plans for the medical and public health sector. The plan includes a new immunisation programme, introduction of

From cervix cancer to menopause, from AIDS to depression and various other women-related ailments, will be the focus of an unique health show to be held in the city in April.The health show will be

7 TV commercials are running nationally - paid for by Philip Morris USA as part of a $100 million campaign, touted by the tobacco giant as a multipronged effort to reduce teenage smoking. Critics

The Delhi government is organising a special 10-day immunisation programme, starting Tuesday for those children who missed their routine immunisation as per the national immunisation schedule.

The World Bank has told the Punjab Government that it will not be in a position to continue funding the state health system development project if the state continues to play truant with the

During the last five decades, the US Government risked the lives of thousands of workers by knowingly letting them be exposed to dangerous levels of beryllium, a metal critical to the military, a US

Heart patients in the country can expect some good news from the first indigenously developed clot-dissolving drug being put to clinical trials. The drug, Streptokinase, was released for clinical