Twenty nine sailors aborad the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt have been punished for refusing to accept anthrax vaccine shots in the latest sign of resistance in the ranks to what Pentagon

Pakistan is all set to throw open its door to the wonder anti-impotency drug, viagra, after the decision-mers in the government, and not medical experts, cleared it for marketing in the country at an

Delhi's burden of oral cancer, one of the two preventable cancers, is four times that of Los Angeles, according to data released today at the biennial national conference of the Indian Society of

The Delhi Government has constituted a committee to settle its ongoing dispute with Indraprastha Apollo Hospital for providing free medical facilities to poor patients. The committee, the

Dr. Randas Batista, the Brazilian cardiac surgeon who used the Law of Laplace to save people suffering from enlargement of heart, carried out his unconventional surgery for the first time in India at

China's HIV problem is still relatively small-only an estimated 300,000 people who have the virus in the entire population of 1.3 billion, according to the Ministry of Health, and most are not sick.

The Uttar Pradesh Government has announced an action plan to contain the epidemic of jaundice which has taken in its grip a number of localities in Old Lucknow, even as Opposition parties took the

The US has developed a hightech bandage which has the potential to save the lives of those facing possibility of bleeding to death, by forming an "instant scab" on

Researchers have identified the first gene known to suppress obesity, and regulate the burning of calories, a key step that may help in developing a drug that keeps people trim. The gene, known as

Under growing public pressure, the U.S.'s leading organization of cancer doctors is accelerating the release of results from several major studies showing whether an expensive and contentious