This year's Nobel Prize for Medicine has created an uproar in scientific circles as at least two scientists have protested that their work has been ignored by the Nobel Committee while selecting the

Mr Manoranjan Kalia, Health and Family Welfare Minister, Punjab, inaugurated a state-level awareness generation workshop on re-productive and child health today. The newly launched country- wide

At least 10 persons,including women and children (according to official sources eight) have died in the past one week from diarrhoea and vomiting. Official sources said that a diarrhoea epidemic

A scandal involving a local pharmaceutical company's illegal human testing of an epidemic hemorrhagic fever vaccine on orphans,involved 412 more cases than previously announced, a lawmaker has

The Malaysian Health Ministry will liaise with Cuba in an effort to find a new formula and approach to fight dengue, Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng said. He said the ministry decided to share Cuba's

Municipal Authorities in the Capital said at least three-four cases of cholera are being reported everyday, though, they claimed, there is nothing alarming about it. According to Municiapal Health

Doctors have induced heart attacks to treat a heart condition that impedes normal blood circulation and formerly required open heart surgery, a new study says. This new procedure decreases or even

Over one lakh bidi workers die of tuberculosis, cancer and brain tumour every year in Bihar, says a survey conducted by the National Bidi Workers Organisation of

In what is being hailed as a major breakthrough, the Malaria Research Centre in Nadiad has identified a fungus that could effectively counter the mosquito menace. The fungus, which eats mosquito

Nineteen people were killed in Rupandehi district of Nepal due to gastroenteritis disease in the last one week. According to the District Public Health Office altogether 26 persons have died in the