By the middle of the next century, one-fourth of the elderly population will be of 85-year-old or above and 12 million people will be afflicted with Alzhemier's disease, a progressive dementing

A support organisation for children with liver disorders has been established in the Capital. The Children's Liver Disease Awareness and Support Programme (CLASP) has been set up in alliance with the

Advances in medical technology mean men could now bear children, according to one of Britain's leading fertility experts. The Sunday Times citing a forthcoming book by Lord Winston, says doctors

Australian scientists are poised to produce the world's first smokeless cigarette. It will allow smokers to inhale nicotine much like an ordinary cigarette but will have no smoke - thus making it

It is an idea that women find either irresistible or unbearable: a computer program that estimates a woman's personal risk of developing breast cancer. The software called the "breast cancer risk

A "mystery disease" has killed 150 people in remote villages in northeast Afghanistan, a UN spokesman has said. Experts from the World Health Organisation plan to attempt to travel to the villages in

A survey has been ordered in the 71 hamlets of the Attapadi region to detect cases of anaemia among the tribal population, District Collector Dr Illangovan said today. It is expected to be completed

Bolivia has tried for years to curb its coca industry, not least because the United States has insisted that it must. The main tool has been eradication of coca bushes, with hefty compensation for

It was a tree-hugger's dream. Save the rainforests. Respect and honour the knowledge of the people who live there. And still make money for your shareholders. Unfortunately, it doesn't look as though

Oregon officials say that in the first year of the only legally sanctioned assisted-suicide program in the world, 15 terminally ill people in the state ended their lives with lethal injection. The