With its unique focus on districts, the Integrated Population and Development (IPD) project launched by the United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA) as its fifth country programme in Rajasthan has laid

Novo NordisK: For, Novo Nordisk, a health-care company that focuses on diabetes, explains, Indians are gentically more prone to diabetes. According to the company, India has the dubious distinction

An experimental ovarian tissue transplant has worked and allowed a prematurely menopausal woman to ovulate and have a normal menstrual period, a doctor said Thursday. International experts

A gene mutation already linked to cancer has been shown, in addition, to cause the immune system to attack the kidneys and other organs in a way that resembles the effects of lupus. In laboratory

The US Justice Department yesterday filed a massive lawsuit that accuses the tobacco industry of fraud and deceit since the 1950s, and seeks to recover much of the $20-billion spent by the federal

The lack of awareness about harmful effects of ozone can be detrimental, especially to the patients of asthma and other respiratory diseases. High ozone levels are harmful to the respiratory

The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Thursday that would make it difficult, if not impossible, to bring successful large class-action lawsuits against tobacco companies, gun

An epidemic could break out in Nantou and Puli of Taiwan, at the epicentre, because of the lack of water, electricity and medicine, doctors

Bangladesh hs achieved 'remarkable" progress in containing its population increase, cutting the growth rate by half to 1.6 per cent in the past 25 years, a United Nations report said on

As part of the 43rd anniversary celebrations of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS), a number of programmes directed at public health education as well as scientitific interaction have