In humans, studying cocaine sensitisation is tricky since most governments have strong views on giving drugs to the uninitiated, and tend to enforce them with lengthy prison sentences. So instead

Last week a healthy 39-year old German photographer died in a Berlin hospital of yellow fever, long thought to pose no threat outside the developing world. Since the 1960sm the world has had a safe,

Did you know that most peptic ulcers in the stomach were caused by a bacteria and food habits had nothing to do with it? This has now been proved by the discovery of the ulcer-causing bacteria. The

The Civil Report Number 3 of the Comptroller and Auditor Genral of India 1998, also points that "the report of malarial death by the state govenemnt was not reliable." The State Health Department,

Even as one more jaundice-related death was reported from the Capital, the Municipal Commissioner, Mr. V.K. Duggal, has ordered prosecution of the authorities of Swatantra Bharat Mill for not

Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd has asked the Government to facilitate quick restoration of its animal toxicity tests required for indigenous development of new drungs for dieases like cancer, HIV,

The Kerala High Court on Friday held that the Director of Health Services had not jurisdiction to issue a notification imposing a total ban on pan masala containing tobacco in the State on the ground

Nestle has halted production of panettone - Italy's favourite Christmas cake - after rat poison inserted by the Animal Liberation Front was found in two cakes in shops in Florence and Bologna. The

New research is challenging the medical textbook view of osteoporosis as largely a women's disease linked to the singularly female experience of menopause. It now seems that osteoporosis is more

Doctors say a new test for cervical cancer that recognizes chemical changes in irregular cells could improve screening programs and save lives worldwide. The technique, dubbed the campaign test, is