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Thousands of beedi workers in the northern districts of Kerala on Friday took out rallies to various courts demanding Government's intervention in seeking a review of the Kerala High Court's order

Sometime in the enxt week or so, the population of India, which adds more peopple to the world each yar than any othe nation, will officially cross the one billion mark, just in time for Independence

Shares in American Home Products, the US drugs group were hit when Texas jurors found against the company in a case involving the diet-drug combination fen-phen. The jury found AHP liable for a Texas

Getting sunburned can help protect against skin cancer, American researchers believe. Exposure to the sun's ultraviolet radiation can damage skin cells in a way that may cause harmful genetic

As health officials remain on alert for the possible outbreak of water-borne epidemics following days of extensive flooding, South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has issued a nationwide

Criminal charges may be brought against Vachiraprakarn General Hospital for intentionally killing, harming or violating the basic rights of patients, the Law Society of Thailand said yesterday. A

Doctors at a Thai private hospital are to be questioned after an ethics inquiry found that a doctor who performed organ transplants was in some cases also the only doctor declaring the donor to be

Three young sisters who became ill on a farm holiday in Scotland are believed to have contracted the E.coli 0157 bug from a pasteurised milk, health officials

Mitsubishi Kagaku Bio-Clinical Laboratories Inc. has developed a hair analysis test for the so-called obesity genes that affect calorie expenditures. The lab plans to provide testing services on a

A research group from Shinshu University (Japan) said it has conducted studies showing that an electric current can be used to control the action of the metabolic enzyme known as cytochrome P450.

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