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Heart, liver patients doing fine : A man who underwent Japan's first heart transplant from a legally brain-dead donor last month is showing good signs of recovery, doctors said Sunday. Doctors at

More than 10,000 children have been examined as part of the coordinated health care programme 'School Health Annual Report Programme'(SHARP) that has been running for two years in Delhi and

Japan's first heart transplant in 31 years, two kidney transplants and the first transplant of a liver from a brain dead person caught the nation's attention last week and quickly raised public

When television screens around the world flashed the successful a hand transplant this January, it captured a frame of a pioneering moment in the field of reconstructive surgery. To add to it, it

About 30 new vaccines now being developed are likely to be released within the next decade, Dr. Y. Udaya Bhaskara Rao, Director, Pasteur Institute of India said in Coimbatore. He was speaking at the

Expert : The strategy to overcome the AIDS crisis in India should not only cover associated diseased like tuberculosis, hepatitis B & C and sexually transmitted diseases (STD) simultaneously, but

For the first time, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology has gathered experts from 21 professional health associations to develop comprehensive guidelines for the diagnosis and

Faced with mounting evidence that the routine use of antibiotics in livestock may diminish the drugs' power to cure infections in people, the Food and Drug Administration in U.S. has begun a major

By analysing abnormal behaviour of an enzyme present in the brain, British scientists are developing a method to screen patients suffering from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, the two most

A three-day intenational symposium on "Prudent use of antibiotics", which ended in Jaipur today, urged the Centre to appoint a committee of experts for framing a national antibiotics policy for

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