Return of deadly epidemics like tuberculosis, malaria and dengue fever and resurfacing of lesser known ones like dropsy conbined with the live AIDS bombs ticking away have made 1998 a "sick" year for

The United Nations yesterday announced tht it had scaled back its expectations of world population growth to reflect a decline in global fertility rates. It now expects the world's population - now

Two small studies have shown that, over just a few weeks, one dose of experimental drugs injected into the heart can greatly relieve, or even eliminate, the chest pain of coronary artery disease by

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today expressed satisfaction over what it said Nepal's fruitful utilisation of UNFPA assistance in carrying out a number of works towards population management

The European Union angered the US yesterday by indicating it might need mroe than ayar before returning to the World Trade Organisation to seek a resolution of a trade dispute over hormone-treated

The Tamil Nadu Beedi, Cigar and Tobacco Workers Federation has opposed the proposed move of the Tamil Nadu Government to ban smoking in public places on the ground that such a move would affect the

The Justice Department filed a mammoth civil lawsuit Wednesday against the major tobacco companies, alleging that cigarette smoking cossts the federal governemnt billions of dollars annually in

Alarmed by what the Clinton administration views as a growing threat of biological terrorism to the country's food supply, the U.S. Agriculture Department is seeking money to turn the Plum Island

In unexpected testimony to the versatility of the body's cells, researchers have found they can make bone marrow cells turn into muscle, causing mice with muscular dystrophy to produce correctly

The Justice Department closed the book Wednesday on its criminal investigation of the tobacco industry and instead filed a far-reaching civil lawsuit that accuses the largest