Ranbaxy and Lupin are among a growing list od domestic drug companies which have filed a record number of process patents during 1997-98 indicating accelerated indigenous research, anticipating a
Researchers have overcome a major obstacle that has kept gene therapy from progressing into everyday patient care. The advance could lead to a new type of gene therapy that would replace existing
In the Sonagachi red light district of Calcutta, where thousands of women sell their bodies along narrow, thronged lanes, it is the prostitutes themselves who have become the leading crusaders
Australian tree frog could hold the key to a new range of drugs to fight cancer and voracious bacteria like golden staph which closes hospital wards, a university research team has discovered. The
How dismal has been the implementation of the Delhi Prohibition of Smoking and Non-Smokers Health Protection Act, 1996 -- under which those caught smoking in public places were to be fined on the
The Gujarat government is working on a policy to ban sale of all brands of loose edible oil throughout the state by April 1, 1999. Official sources at Rajkot told the Economic Times that the state
The US government has approved the first in a long-awaited new type of pain killer for millions of arthritis sufferers, but cautioned that claims it is safe for the stomach may have been overhyped.
Ethicists have objected to a study in which 100 healthy volunteers were given a powerful hallucinogen in an effort by scientists to better understand mental illness. In studies conducted at the
U.S. officials are beginning trials aimed at treating undiagnosed symptoms known as Gulf War Syndrome common to U.S., British and Canadian veterans. The Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs
DR P V Subba Rao battles eight-legged monsters with a small aerosol can. The creatures that the Bangalore-based scientist targets aren't fire-breathing dragons but microscopic house dustmites which