The government is considering total ban on the use of chewing tobacco as such and its use in pan masala and gutka, the Rajya Sabha was

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a package-labeling change for Eli Lilly & Co.'s osteoporosis drug Evista that will allow the company's sales personnel to refer to research studies

The European Union faces legal action after its agriculture ministers banned the use of four antibiotics in animal feed amid fears of increasing human resistance to life-saving drugs. Rejecting

The House of Lords gave the go-ahead for five South African asbestos victims to sue their former employer in the English High Court. The Lords, refused permission for Cape, a UK-based multinational,

Infectious diseases hinder developing countries from developing. Making existing drugs cheaper there would help. Making entirely new drugs would help even more : a

Heroin addicts are being saved days of cold turkey by being weaned off the drug while sedated or anaesthetised. After six hours of being asleep they wake up at the equivalent of 10 days into a

The lawyers who represented the first states to settle with the tobacco industry over health care costs have been awarded $8.2 billion in fees, the richest legal payday in US

A smart needle that can ensure nurses find a vein every time is being tested by British doctors. It uses sound waves to home in on the target. A guidance system harnesses the Doppler effect to pick

Experts gathered in the Zambian capital counted the economic, social and human cost of AIDS in Africa, hearing that the pandemic could wipe out all the gains of the past century. "Too much of Africa

The demographic and political reality that increasingly colors the debate over restructuring Medicare and Social Security in U.S. is that old age is a space largely inhabited by women. Women not only