Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee hinted at the appointment of a minister to oversee the promotion of Indian Systems of Medicine and promised an increase in budgetary allocation at the inauguration

A nasal spray vaccine has proven effetive in preventing influenza in children, raising hopes that injections, so much disliked by the little ones, will become obsolete. American scientists who

Public health officials at the 12th Annual AIDS Conference on Tuesdasy provided details of initiatives to get treatment to the worst hit regions of the world and called on governments to become more

A lethal strain of bacteria known as VRE has been found during inspections of imported chicken,health officials said Wednesday. Chicken tainted with vancomycin resistant enterococcus, or VRE,

Sexually transmitted diseases and blood-borne infections rank high among jail inmates, according to a study at AIIMS by scientists which suggests inclusion of prisoners among the "high-risk groups"

More than 100 billion yuan wll be spend yearly on the treatment of chronic diseases, the major causes of death in China today, according to a report by the National Health Economics

A report prepared by an investigation committee has found out that 332 persons have lost their lives due to communicable diseases since April this year in

With a report by the Central reearch and Forensic Laboratory confirming that he had indeed conducted xenotransplantation of a pig heart into a human being, Dr Dhani Ram Baruah has decided to "launch

Researchers at the 12th World AIDS Conference unveiled a surprisingly poweful and easy-to-use combination drug therapy that may change the way HIV infections are treated. The new therapy would slash

U.S. federal regulators warned that Johnson & Johnson's popular heartburn durg Propulsid may cause genetically deadly heart-rhythm problems when combined with numerous other medications, and