Shire Pharmaceuticals, the drugs company, has presented research indicating that its new treatment for Alzheimer's disease helps slow memory loss. The treatment, galantamine, is potentially the

At least 500 people have already died and 20,000 have received medical treatment in Nepal from infectious diseases since April this year, according to Epidemiology and Disease Control Division

Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers have an increased risk of developing lymphoma and should be treated with drugs to protect them against the cancer of the immune system, Swedish doctors

For people with high blood pressure who have to take pills, recent studies have offered good news: Changes in daily routine can lower blood pressure enough to let some people with mild hypertension

Thalidomide finally won Food and Drug Administration approval to be sold in the United States. Its use will be highly restricted in an effort to avoid the birth defects it produced in the

Growth of parthenium, a poisonous plants, that reportedly causes asthama and skin ailments, has alarmed Salt Lake's residents.

Marijuana, the ostracised drug thought to produce abnormal brainwaves, may soon be used by neurologists to prevent cerebral strokes. Cannabidiol--a compound extracted from cannabis--has been found

An international congress of radiology is being held in India for the first time, from September 19 to 23 , with the participation of 1,500 delegates from overseas and 2,500 from within the country.

The withdrawal of the controversial excise duty on sweetmeals may be music to the ears of the traditionally sweet toothed people of Gujarat, but they had better watch out against the dangers

A federal judge has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency wrongly declared secondhand tobacco smoke a dangerous carcinogen in a landmark 1993 report in