One person died last month from new variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease - the degenerative brain disorder linked to BSE ("mad cow disease") - the UK Department of Health

The contaminated water being supplied by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board is posing a serious threat to the health of Karachiites and may cause spread of infectious epidemic. According to the

Jordan has declared a public holiday on August 11 in an apparent bid to keep people indoors and make them watch the century's last solar eclipse on television, officials

People's participation in the population control programmes, improvement in reproductive and child health care, active association of various Government departments and abolition of gender

At least 96 people have died from encephalitis and diarrhoea in the past 10 weeks in tropical regions of Nepal, health minister Ram Baran Yadav told the Parliament on

The Apollo Hospitals' Heart and Kidney Centre, Visakhapatnam, claims to have performed a complicated surgery recently on a three-day-old baby who was suffering from congenital

Despite intensive pulse polio immunisation programmes in the state from last three years, 83 fresh cases have been reported in the current year with Gulbarga district, Karnataka alone recording 16

Apollo Hospital in Delhi has conducted its first successful liver transplant and only the second in the country. The 42 year old patient, Bharat Bhusan, has survived the crucial one month period

As the spread of AIDS in Africa continues to thwart the continent's development, South Africa, the region's economic powerhouse, is showing such rapid AIDS growth that overall life expectancy here

A panel of four scientists appointed by a federal court has conluded that scientific evidence has so far failed to show that silicone breast implants cause disease. The scientists said some of the