The M P State Government has decided to constitute State AIDS Control Society with an objective to empower AIDS control programme and expand its effective limits in the rural regions. A decision to

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The average number of children a Japanese women bears during her life expectancy dropped to a record low 1.39 in 1997, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Health and

Zimbabwe is under pressure from donor countries and agencies to reform its collapsing healthcare system. Planned reforms include decentralising the system and introducing some market mechanisms. But

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nearly 50 per cent of Calcutta's population may risk developing cardio-vascular diseases due to high carbonate content in drinking water, says a study. A B Dasgupta, member of the West Bengal

For the first time in the country, a premature baby, born when the mother was barely 24 weeks into the pregancy, has survived with an expected potential for a favourable neurological outcome at the

The month-long Senate tobacco debate has become the legislative equivalent of a long family car ride , with everybody asking." Are we there

Sri Lanka is to enforece a ban on alcohol and tobacco advertisements in newspapers, radio and television from January, a newspaper reported on

A unani coded drug, He 11, has been found highly effective against viral fever by the Central Council for Research in Unani