The population of those aged 100 or over in Japan is poised to total a record 11,346 this month, according to a Health and Welfare Ministry survey released on Tuesday. Of the total, 82.6 per cent -or

Eli Lilly & Co. the maker of the anti-depresant Prozac, is challenging one of Pfizer Inc's UK patents related to the blockbuster impotence drug Viagra to clear the way for its own entry in the

A South Korean with lung cancer has filed an unprecedented lawsuit, seeking compensation from Korea Tobacco and Ginseng Corporation (KTGC), the nation's primary cigarette maker. The man, 56, a chief

The Rs 500-crore Apollo Hospitals plans to set up an additional 2,000 crore in the coming year. Besides, the group has chalked out plans to set up a hospital in Sri Lanka , Bangladesh, Muscat and one

An Overview : For an epidemic that would explode to claim hundreds of thousands of lives, AIDS surfaced very quietly in the United States, with a small notice on June 4, 1981 in a weekly newsletter

Two or more significant blows to the head received while playing sports can harm teen-agers' thinking abilities for years, and young athletes with learning disorders appear to suffer

New York City has one of the least aggressive mosquito-control programs in the region, with virtually no preventive maintenance and a budget that is less than 6 percent of that in nearby Suffolk

At least nine children and a woman have died of symnptoms which resemble gastroenteritis during the last 12 days . There are also reports of at least 150 persons suffering from diarrhoea and

Mr. Richard T. Johnson, professor of Neurology at John Hopkin's Hospital,Maryland, U.S., says mmost of the brain infections, including neurological complications that result from AIDS, were

Experts: With a large protion of the 10,000-odd students in the satellite township known to be sexually active, and consequently vulnerable to contracting the HIV virus, experts and doctors say the