Controversial surgeon Dhani Ram Baruah appears to have "created medical history" by keeping a patient alive for " at least five days " after transplanting his heart with that of a pig's , M S Rao,

Health minister of southern states today decided to undertake re-registration of doctors in both allopathic and Indian systems of

The rights to an alleged AIDS remedy that sparked political and scientific controversy last year have been sold to a Black business consortium that is determined to get it to the market. The

Govt : The Haryana government denied reports that some children had died in Gurgaon after taking parcetamol suspension that contained ethylene glycol. A spokesman of the state health department

A British judge ordered payments up to 300,000 pound each on Friday to people who suffered the fear of ghastly brain-wasting Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease because they were given growth hormones

Gutka or paan chewers might be swallowing mud with their mix. Gambir, a substance used in the leather dyeing industry, is being used to adulterate gutka since it is far cheaper than katha, one of the

The 10,000 residents of the Bhalore village in the Panipat district of Haryana have been living all these years without any health centre or medical facility. There is no government dispensary or

With some NGOs working in the field of AIDS and drug abuse going against needle exchange programme the global debate of total abstinence has come to fore in Nepal. "Needle exchange programme is

Deal With Death: Three to four percent of the world's population is dependent on drugsaccording to the United Nations organisation which this week staged a special World Summit in New York to support

Men who take Viagra may enhance their sex lives - but at the expense of their eyes. Tests have showed that too much of the drug can produce what is known as "blue vision," and may even cause