Organisers of the 12th Annual World AIDS conference marked the official opening on Sunday with a call for greater emphasis on the use of resources already available in the fight against the deadly

The Delhi High Court has issued notices to several government organisations after hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL). The PIL has sought to protect people in Delhi from serious health hazards

On the eve of the 12th International Conference on AIDS comes some sobering news : a

Study : In what is claimed to be first India study on the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, through the highrisk group of jail inmates , an associate professor of the All India

The tobacco bill almost made it in US senate until the Republicans decided to blow it off : a

In an era when cigratte advertising is under attack worldwide, tobacco companies will see an end to their unusally blunt sales pitch: Smoke more, get a prize. But soon, giveaway promotions by

The manufacturer of the entire world supply of quinacrine pellets, used to chemically sterilize women in developing nations, said it will no longer make the pellets. The decision by Sipharm Sissein

Fewer than 30 per cent of voters participated in Portugal's first referendum, effectively rendering the vote - on abortion - null and void. More than 50 per cent of eligible citizens were required

Nearly three months after approving Viagra, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had received about 100 reports of men suffering serious adverse reactions or dying after taking the impotence drug,

The tobacco lobby in the State is up against the Anti-smoking Bill introduced in the Meghalaya Assembly last week giving rise to apprehensions that the Bill may go up in