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

Patients in need of blood at the Zonal Hospital (Dharamsala) are falling prey to professional blood donors who are allegedly operating through certain hospital employees and local pharmacists.

Birth live on the Internet: A 40-year-old Florida woman is scheduled to give birth live on the Internet on Tuesday, the first ever online delivery, a cable television health network said on

The total number of recorded cases of people infected with the AIDS-causing virus in the Philippines has risen to 1,071, a local newspaper quoted the health department as saying in Manila on

WHO: As many as 1 million between the ages of 15 and 44 will die of tuberculosis (TB) and 2.5million will get sick from the disease this year, making TB the single leading cause of deaths, among

UK biotechnology company GW Pharmaceuticals announced on Thursday 11 June that it has been granted government licences to cultivate cannabis plants andto conduct the first large-scale clinical trials

The government proposes to introduce a comprehensive legislation to reduce the use of tobacco in the country, according to health and family welfare minister Dalit Ezhilmalai.