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

Almost 40 per cent of women in Pakistan are affected by iron deficiency during the pregnancy period which causes deaths in many cases and unhealthy children are born. According to medical experts,

expert : Pakistan, having 1,345 HIV positive and 167 full-blown AIDS cases during the last 12 years, may not be facing an epidemic situation, say experts. However, they do not consider it a source

The global population growth slowed during the last year recording an increase of only 79 million instead of the expected increase of 90 million a year during the decade, the population institute

Women who are suffering from infertility and waiting for successful motherhood, have cheering news from Charak Pharmaceuticals Limited, a well known Ayurvedic medicines company. M2 tone syrup

A five-week-old baby was in a satisfactory condition on Saturday after making medical history as the youngest patient in Britain to have a rare double heart valve

Family Planning Association of India has bagged the "International Vision 2000" award of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, a leading family planning organisation, for its "Small Family

Dhaka Community Hospital (DCH) reacted to a news about the presence of excess level of arsenic in the water of WASA in the capital and questioned the authenticity of the test. An English daily

Researchers at New York University have developed a new brain-scanning method that may be able to detect Alzhemier's develop characteristic microscopic changes in the brain, but because they are deep

Testing of blood has emerged as a serious handicap in the absence of ELISA processor in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi -run Hindu Rao Hospital. A doctor in the hospital said the burden on tbe