Elementary schools across Taiwan started summer vacation a week early, but their students have no place to go combating a virus that already has killed 52 children, summer camps won't open this year,

An artificial, country-wide scarcity in supplies of the painlikking drug, morphine, is driving terminally ill cancer patients to agonising deaths. For nearly two years now the drug has been

A claim by a local doctor over an 'AIDS medicine' led to a controversy with some professors in Andhra university here taking credit of inventing the medicine and attributing plagiarism to the doctor.

National AIDS Control Organisation launched a telephone helpline service to provide specific information about AIDS to the public.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is making drastic cuts in the aid extended to India and some other countries in south-east Asia. India, already faced with sanctions, will now have to cope with

Viagra, the drug for treating male impotence, will not be available for patients in Germany through the nation's statutory health insurance system. A federal government committee of doctors and

Confidential documents released by the inquiry into BSE show that John Major, as prime minister demanded that there should be less regulation of the meat industry at a time when controls to protect

The UK government's Medicines Control Agency has set up a Special Enquiry Unit to crack down on illegal sales of Viagra. The MCA said that it would take action against people selling Viagra, which is

American and Chinese doctors consulted across cyberspace in the first successful live medical teleconference between their

US House Republicans have laid out plans for a tobacco Bill that bears little resemblance to the $516-billion tobacco killed by the Senate last week.Republicans said the House bill would not try to