The Capital is soon going to have its first marriage bureau for AIDS patients. AIDS-India, a registered society of doctors, social counsellors and HIV patients, will run the bureau. This is the first

Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd, the Hyderabad based pharmaceutical company known for developing the country's first indigenously developed Hepatitis-B vaccine, is all set to launch its second drug,

Far from being included into the country's family planning programme, the two injectable contraceptives for women, Net-en and Depo-Provera, should not be allowed in the country, women's groups and

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