The municipal corporation says it has distributed 1.92 crore chlorien tablets in the areas worst affected by cholera & gastroenteritis. But at least one area, struggling with water shortage, choked

As Indian grapples with the AIDs menace, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has given a nod to the National AIDs Control Organisation to conduct clinical trials on the efficacy of AZT therapy

A significant forward step in cancer treatment has been achieved by Japanese scientists using a variable wavelength solid laser, a system under which a tumour-specific photo-sensitiser is

A 49-year-old woman was diagnosed with legionnaire's disease yesterday in what appears to be a fourth case arising from contaminated air conditioning systems near the Moonee Ponds shopping strip.

Commerce minister Ramakrishna Hegde will launch an oral health education programme called Smile For All National Oral Health Programme to generate awareness about oral health hygiene among primary

The Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals is the first among private hospitals to have its own comprehensive website at www.apollohospdelhi.com.in. "The only other hospital to be on the Internet in India is

Adolescent girls in South Asia face greater health-related problems than boys, according to a United Nations Population Fund report which says national policies had failed to address the need and

Duggal : The Muncipal Commissioner Mr. V. K. Duggal, said that cholera was endemic to Delhi and could not be eradicated totally. Making a statement before the Standing Committee of the Muncipal

A health and social sector NGO in Rajasthan has alleged a pronounced bias against rural areas in the budgetary allocations in medical and public health in the State. The NGO, Bal Rashsmi Society,

In a city which is home to one of the largest slums in the country, there may be a doctor for every 300 people, but there is almost neurotic fear of hospitals among those on the fringes of society.