Exposure to passive smoking can increase a non-smoker's risk of having a stroke by up to 82 per cent, according to new research released on Tuesday.The New Zealand Auckland stroke study, published in

People with heart disease who eat a very low-fat vegetarian diet, exercise religiously, practice stress reduction daily, medidate and avoid smoking can significantly reduce blockages in their

The UK should not go ahead with its proposed ban on the use of white asbestos, the Canadian government has said in a submission to the UK Health and Safety executive on its proposed prohibition

study: Influenza vaccinations can raise the risk of people getting a rare temporary paralysis known as Guillian-Barre syndrome by 70 per cent to one per million, researchers said in New England

New studies in the US show that an epilepsy drug can bring relief to diabetics who suffer pain from nerve damage and to people with shingles who develop nerve pain that sometimes lasts for years. The

Incidence of Malaria has substantially declined in Gujarat this year due to proper preventive measures, according to state health minister Ashok

Cambodia's health service is like many of the country's other institutions-penniless, ramshackle and corrupt. But the efforts of a determined Swiss doctor Beat Richner is making a difference for

Dr. Judah Folkman, the Harvard researcher who has pioneered the idea of starving tumors with factors that cut off their blood supply, announced on Thursday that he had discovered a third such agent.

The Chairman of the Standing Committee in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Mr. Shanti Desai, stated that no mid-day meal had been served for the past three months in any of the schools run by the

Owens Corning, maker of insulation and other building materials, said yesterday it will pay $1.2 billion to settle asbestos-related lawsuits in a bid to end one of the biggest product liability cases