The Union health ministry might privatise the maintenance services in Central government-run hospitals to tide over the crisis due to the strike by the group C and D employees. The six-day long

Years ago a sexologist from Bangalore visited the Niagara Falls during a training at Masters and Johnson Institution. This July he had another exciting experience. He took Viagra, the sextasy pill,

A new quick method for identifying mutants is based on a simple premise : the proteins that a mutant strain produces do not weigh the same as those made by the original virus. The study was

A frustrating situation is prevailing in Bangladesh's health sector with its infrastructure and services still being managed and controlled by the government. "The government has to review its

The city of Kurchatov in northern Kazakhstan are facing the consequences of nuclear testing. Between 1949 and 1989, 470 nuclear tests were carried out at Semipalatinsk. Until 1962 the tests were on

The Government would soon issue notifications banning the use of Quinacrine for female sterilisation and contraception, said the Union Health Minister, Mr. Dalit

The debate surronding the proposed use of statistical sampling in the 2000 census in US has become so heated that the integrity of the entire process has been called into question. There is now a

Pan masala or chewing tobacco is injurious to health, a health ministry probe has finally concluded. The probe was conducted by the directorate-general of health services based on evidence gathered

Health care companies in US would have broad rights to disclose or sell patient information under a little-noticed provision in a major health bill that is about to reach the House floor. The

Melbourne scientists have grown a crystal that offers new hope for the treatment of diseases such as cancer and diabetes. The team has found out how animal cells receive and transmit a chemical that