An Italian researcher, Dr. Alberto Bertelli and his colleagues at the University of Milan say they have found a key chemical that helps ward off degenerative brain conditions in the elderly. It is

Railway minister Nitish Kumar's decision to ban cigarette and bidi sales on trains and railway platofrrms from June 5 has come as a nasty surprise to the cigarette industry. His statement that the

Thailand's Deputy Public Health Minister Decha Sukharom announced yesterday that research into the potential of "mara khinok" to treat HIV/Aids will go on, even though a project carried out by the

Did the dead person smoked tobacco or chewed the weed? If so, for how long? If this information was included in the death certificate, it could change the way Indians think about tobacco. This was

The Railways has imposed a total ban on the sale of cigarettes/bidis on railway platforms and passenger trains with effect from June 5, 1999 - which is enviornment day. Announcing this while

Two workers of an asbestos processing plant in Mumbai, owned by UK-based multinational T&N Ltd, have sued the company for health

The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) , in a report, has said 169,24 blood samples out of every thousand screened are HIV positive in Manipur. This is the highest in the

The Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a "biomaterial" that could be used to replace arteries or knee cartilage. It may also serve as a nerve guides that would speed up the repair of

The economic survey of India has deprecated the "command and control" approach to pollution control. It has urged the adoption of market-based instruments (MBI) which could be more effective. The

Results of a study published in the February 16 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine suggest that in the near future a simple blood test to detect levels of sex hormones could predict which women