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The local branch of a state health insurance programme in France said it planned to file suit against cigarette manufacturers, claiming they were responsible for hundreds of deaths. The lawsuit would

China's population grew by 0.95 per cent to 1.248 billion in 1998, the first year the world's most populous country kept its growth rate below one per cent, the official Xinhua news agency reported

The UK government said it would bring forward the introduction of rules to force restaurants to disclose whether they are serving genetically modified foods. As part of a counter-offensive over such

The Kerala Forest department has unleashed a crackdown on manufacturers of ayurvedic drugs who use any herb mentioned in the scheduled list as an ingredient in their concotions. As a first step, the

The first of British Biotech's advanced trials for an anti-cancer agent, once seen as a potential breakthrough in treatment of the disease, has failed. The company said that a Phase III study of

A Delhi-based scientist has developed a new system to destroy cancerous tumours by using very high frequency sound waves as a heat source. Developed by Ved Ram Singh and colleagues at the National

Lack of sleep puts with hypertension at greater risk for heart damage both during the night and the following morning, according to a study in the American Journal of Hypertension."The study by Prof.

The Fifth International Congress of Tropical Paeiatrics, which ended in Jaipur has recommended reintroduction in the country of the "Wholecell killed vaccine" once used in treating typhoid and a ban

Health experts have expressed confidence that India would be able to eliminate leprosy as a public health problem in the next three years, at the most by the end of the year 2002. Their optimism is

In a bid to check the arsenic contamination of groundwater sources in eight districts of the State, the West Bengal Government has begun the first phase testing of a cost-effective arsenic removal

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