Cantab Pharmaceuticals, the gene and immunotherapy research group, is to develop vaccines against nicotine and cocaine after announcing a deal to buy the treatments from a US company. Cantab is

The Food and Drug Administration approved the world's first vaccine against Lyme disease, a shot anxiously awaited in tick-infested regions but one that won't eliminate the threat. Doctors warned

Though known to be a high risk group of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) , there is no data on how many sex workers in the Capital are infected with this disease. This was revealed by

An anti-viral drug 'Lamivudine' is holding promise for treatment of hepatitis-B whose spread in India has assumed alarming proportions, according to an expert. Lamivudine, that is currrently used

Uganda has sought India's cooperation in the areas of population control, primary health care and super-speciality care such as cardiovascular surgeries. It has called for setting up of joint

In order to marshal the pooled resources of developing countries to provide a collective response to challenges posed by cardiovascular diseases, the All India Institute of Medical Science(AIIMS) is

An international conference on heart health in developing countries is to be held in New Delhi from October 10 to 14. The conference will discuss preventive aspects of heart health.

The U.S. and South Africa ended their trade battle over AIDS drugs, relieving a major headache for U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Under the agreement, which was largely settled on South Africa's terms,

An Anglo-American agreement is being negotiated to protect for posterity the 100,000 genes that write the recipe for the human body and will provide the catalysts for medicine advance in the next

In the next two decades, cardio-vascular diseases will become the leading killer in the developing world, the head of the cardiology department at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Prof.