The legal test case being brought by 53 lung cancer victims against Imperial Tobacco and Gallaher, makers of 80 per cent of the cigarettes sold in UK, returns to the High Court for a hearing that

The UK's first group-action lawsuit against the country's tobacco industry faces a crucial hurdle, as a hearing begins to determine the number of plaintiffs who can take part in the landmark case. A

New studies show that an epilepsy durg can bring relief to diabetics who suffer from nerve damage and to people with shingles who develop nerve pain that sometimes lasts for years. In new studies,

United States' largest cigarette maker, Philip Morris Cos Inc, is planning to launch what it says is a "longterm, comprehensive, youth smoking prevention effort" that is unrelated to last month's

Much publicised solgan 'Health for all by 2000' appears to be a figment of imagination as 136.8 per cent infant mortality rate have been recorded per thousand birth under Mandia block in Barpeta

Buffalo blood collected from the abattoirs at Tangra in Caluctta has given scientists at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) a unique protein that improves the ability of sperm cells to

Nursing homes and "health shops" dispensing magic cures take care. Punjab has decided to regulate their working and check all kinds of quackery. A Bill - the Punjab Nursing Home Registration Act - is

The Cabinet on Thursday approved a revised strategy for eradication of polio by the year 2000. Under the new strategy, between October 1999 and January 2000, there would be four nation wide rounds of

Health officials in Burma have expressed "grave concern" at the rising number of smokers, including nearly half the country's young people. Speaking at an anti-tobacco seminar on

study : At least 40 per cent of young women whose sisters suffer anorexia are likely to develop the same eating disorder, a Deakin University researcher has found. Dr Ross King, a lecturer at the