Drinking up to two alcoholic beveraes a day cuts the risk of the more common kind of stroke in half, says research out Wednesday. But consuming seven or more drinks a day triples the risk of

Tobacco and liquor advertisements will be taken off television and radio networks in Nepal as part of the government's effort to discourage smoking and drinking. Nepali information and communications

Tests on 50,000 tube wells in Bangladesh - a source of water for most of the population - have shown that about 40 percent are too contaminated with arsenic to provide drinking water, a World Bank

The Human Rights Watch accused Mexico of failing to protect pregnant women workers against job discrimination, one of the dozens of developing countries in which foreign companies allegedly denied

Sixty thousand women say they've taken fertility treatments-a trend that's sparking more multiple births. Fewer than 1 percent of single babies die. But the danger rises for multiples conceived with

The high incidence of gastro-enteritis among the tribals of Andhra Pradesh's Adilabad district is still a subject of intense debate and casts a shadow on the effectiveness of the delivery of

Tests on 50,000 so-called tubewells in Bangladesh - a source of wter for 90 per cent of the population - have shown that around 40 per cent are too contaminated with arsenic to provide drinking

It appears from the revelation of experts that there is hardly anybody left in Bangladesh who is safe from a particular type of abdominal disease that can lead to many other severe ailments,

An investigation by the Vigilance department of the Ministry of Railways has revealed that some brands of mineral water being served and sold in trains did not meet prescribed standards. Following

A malaria epidemic has been wreaking havoc in about 250 villages, predominantly inhabited by tribals, in Shahpur tehsil of Betul district. About one lakh people are estimated to have been affected by