Undeterred by hurdles, humiliation and even imprisonment in his home state of Assam, the heart surgeon who for the first time in the country transplanted a pig's heart, lung and kidney into a human

The first Indian doctor to have got infected with AIDS virus has been forced to go underground. This brilliant gold medalist, a chief resident doctor in King George's Medical Colldge in Lucknow,

Doctors practising in Delhi will have to apply for a fresh registration every five years. This is being done by the recently constituted Medical Council of Delhi to ensure that all doctors update

Business has a critical role to play in stemming the tide of HIV/Aids that is devastating large swathes of sub-Saharan Africa, according to UNAids, the joint United Nations programme on the

It may seem incredible what a large amount of money the tobacco industry is spending every year for a destructive purpose like smoking. In United States, the tobacco industry spends about 13 million

One in three Japanese adults smoke cigarettes, prompting the Government to announce yesterday an anti-smoking campaign to cut in half by 2010 the number of smokers and amount of tobacco consumed. An

Giving oxygen to patients with detached retinas while they await remedial surgery may help decrease damage to the affected eyes, according to a California researcher who has successfully tested his

A rare blood transplant from an unrelated newborn's umbilical cord has been used in an attempt to cure a twelve-year old boy suffering from sickle cell anaemia. Unrelated cord blood has been used to

Researchers have good news for women and men who dye their hair: The largest study ever to examine a possible link between hair dyes and a particular kind of blood cancer finds that any link is

Health officials in New York City have escalated their war against the mosquitoes that carry the encephalitis virus, using helicopters and trucks to spray an insecticide to kill the