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

To reduce drastically the global burden of blindness, which now afflicts an estimated 40 to 45 million people, the World Health Organisation(WHO) and a broad coalition of international,

Mr. Vinod Prakash Sharma, former director of the Malaria Research centre here, has been selected for the 21st Darling Foundation Prize by the World Health Organisation for his achievements in

Kava, a crop that grows only in the South Pacific is now being used in Western medicine, causing concern among islanders who fear that traditional knowledge about this cash crop is being stolen from

A report says that 3,200 villages in Rajasthan - close to a tenth of the total and spread over all districts - have fluorosis. In fact, fluorosis is so familiar to Rajasthan that a strip near Makrana

US authorities have issued a public warning urging extreme caution while going to the movies after HIV-infected needles were found on seats in cinema theatres in Dallas (Texas) and other American

US authorities have issued a public warning urging extreme caution while going to the movies after HIV-infected needles were found on seats in cinema threatres in Dallas (Texas) and other American