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The Delhi Medical Association has crossed swords with its kparent body, Indian Medical Association, accusing the latterof "gross mismanagement" in its pilot project of the Reproductive and Child

World Health Organisation(WHO) on Monday said that it would focus on reaching the poor and the marginalised in SOuth-East Asia and help ensure their better health. WHO would ensure that millions who

Asian health officials met in Bangladesh on Monday at the start of a six-day meeting to discuss their battle against AIDS, malnutrition, crippling vitamin deficiencies and other diseases in the

Dozens of medicinal plants from the Andean region are in danger of becoming extinct and some have already disappeared, according to a report by environmentalists. They blame the probelm on the

Scientists have found a way to isolate blood stem cells which give rise to blood cells -work that could eventually lead to laboratory production of all kinds of blood cells for transfusion,

An experimental "treatment" for Alzheimer's disease is being studied at the Washington Home, a long-term care facility in northwest Washington . Psychiatrist Gene D. Cohen of George Washington

A study published in the Lancet, a British medical journal gives a glimpse of conditions in North Korea. Anything from 100,000 to 3m North Koreans have died of starvation since 1995, when famine

China has halted nationwide sales of French wine over fears that "mad cow" disease might have been used in the wine-making process in France. It is a preplexing ban from a medical point of view, but

A German cameraman who sparked alarm when he became ill with a tropical disease that doctors at first feared might be the deadly Ebola virus died of yellow fever, five days after returning from West

Death rates from cardiovascular diseases have plummeted by 60 percent in the United States since 1950, a federal agency says, indicating that the advance against the country's leading killer has been

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