The health department in the Philippines would begin treating AIDS victims with coconut oil on a trial basis starting today, reports said. Patients with the HIV (human immunodeficienty virus) that

Nobody is saying the scientists who presented their findings at the retrovirus conference in Chicago last week had anything but the noblest of intentions. Their target was HIV, the AIDS virus, and

According to a 1998 study in The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2.2 million patients a year have adverse reactions to drugs; 106,000 of them die. Many millions are simply aren't helped,

A team of American researchers at the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta and their collaborators at the National Institute of Immunology at Delhi have developed a malaria vaccine based on a

A team of American researchers at the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta and their collaborators at the National Institute of Immunology (NII) here have developed a malaria vaccine based on

Assad Hamid came into this world six months ago. He will probably depart within the next six months. Assad suffers from acute malnutrition. He is not alone in the hospital or in the country.

Despite a commitment by nearly 200 countries to improve women's health care and provide access to safe abortions, the number of deaths linked to childbirth has been rising. Almost 600,000 women die

Not a single worker of Orient Paper Mills in Brajrajnagar, working in the electrolysis bleaching (EB) plant, has lived for more than a year after retirement in the past four or five years, according

Managed care exists to keep costs down. How unfortunate that premiums this year in U.S. will rise by five times the rate of inflation : a

An increasing number of young women who give birth to children who are resistant to more than one HIV drug is worrying doctors and the society at large : a