A man in his 60s died hours after taking Viagra this month, becoming the first reported fatality in Japan linked to the hugely popular anti-impotence drug, the Health and Welfare Ministry announced

A rare viral disease-- enterovirus-- has claimed the lives of 41 children in Warangla district of Andhra Pradesh in the past one month, the Health Minister, Mr N Janardhana Reddy, said today.

Mumbai based Haffkline Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation Ltd (HBPCL), a government of Maharashtra undertaking, is set to restart the manufacture of the vital typhoid vaccine, after a gap of almost two

Nearly 600,000 women die of pregnancy-related causes each year and 99 per cent of these deaths occur in the developing world. According to the population reference bureau source,

The Malaysian Government plans to initiate WHO's Healthy Cities programme in 33 urban centres by 2005 to curb growing health and social problems. Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng said the

A Pakistani surgeon who provided modern medical service to poor people for free was named winner on Tuesday of the 1998 Ramon Magasaysay award for government service. Mr Abdul Hasan Razvi, director

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture has wanred that the declining Plan allocation will force the government to wind up the Food Processing Ministry. The committee which tabled its

WHO : The year 2000 target for total eradication of poliomyelitis will not be met unless sufficient resources are mobilised on a timely basis, warn World Health Organisation(WHO) officials. "We badly

If the proliferation of MRI and CT scan are taken, Mumbai and New Delhi account for nearly 50 per cent of these expensive, hitech gadgets that were critical in providing quality medicare, Maj. Gen.

The national TB control programme is faced with a serious problem with the Health Ministry dragging its feet on the issue of entrusting the task of procurement of drugs and other supplies for the