The beedi workers as well as tobacco growers should find alternate avenues of earnings, feels National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE), while welcoming the Kerala High Court's landmark

As the Capital reels under a jaundice epidemic caused by contaminated water, a study shows that typhoid too is spreading in the city, affecting even children below the age of two. The findings of the

Environmentalists: US soft-drink giant Coca-Cola Co broke a promise made nine years ago to use recycled plastic in its soda bottles, an environmental group decicated to recycling has claimed.

Unlike ever before, milk is all set to become an important issue in the forthcoming election to the Lok Sabha in Uttar Pradesh. While the BJP-led Kalyan Singh government is determined to take stern

Japan announced Tuesday it had discovered dioxins in women's breast milk at levels so high that babies may be drinking 26 times the recommended daily maximum

Researchers in New York have injected a gene that stimulates the growth of new blood vessels directly itno diseased heart muscle with positive

A ten day long 'Perfect health mela' is being organised from December 18 to bring about awareness on available preventive strategies for ailments and also to make a beginning towards integrating the

The ratio of women's waists to their hips is a strong predictor of whether they'll develop heart disease, says research carried out recently. A high waist-to-hip ratio, or apple shape, was first

A massive infusion of World Bank funds has failed to provide people with HIV/AIDS with a support system in India, a country with poor basic health facilities and a hostile social environment,

A recent order amanating from Maneka Gandhi's ministry of social justice states that medicines containing substances of animal origin will carry the non-vegetarian