Pursuant to Calcutta High Court's order the West Bengal Government has submitted it an action-taken report in respect of arsenic pollution of ground water in some districts in the state . The report

Residents of housing societies in East Delhi are being administered the Hepatitis B vaccine by an Ayurvedic doctor with the help of a nurse. Doctors in the area say the vaccine was wrongly

A new anti-malarial drug that prevents parasites from replicating inside the host, is all set to undergo clinical trial by the end of this year. The drug has been found to be as effective as one of

TB doesn't make headlines in the way AIDS does, even though it is the biggest single killer of women and young people. More people are dying of TB than ever before. At 8000 people per day or up to 3

Australian scientists are set to speed up the use of cloning technology to develop body tissues and organs. This follows yesterday's landmark decision by the Australian Academy of Science to support

The world last year was riveted by news that Harvard University researchers had uncovered two unusually potent cancer drugs that shrink tumors in lab animals by starving cancer cells of nourishing

Melbourne doctors have successfully used gene therapy to destroy brain tumors in animals, paving the way for trials on human patients, a conference will be told today. Dr Mary

A new study revealing how certain immune system cells remember past invasions of viruses may give a clue to devising new vaccines for AIDS or cancer. University of Chicago researchers focussed on a

A handful of tart cherries may be more effective than aspirin in relieving certain types of pain, according to an Indian American researcher at the University of Michigan. A study by Muralee Nair

Roche, the Swiss drugs company, hopes to file an influenza drug with the US Food and Drug Administration "imminently" in an effort to win approval before the winter flu season. The drug acts in the