A drug used to treat people with coronary heart disease can also prevent illness in healthy people, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers gave

A study of University of Pennsylvania graduates, classes of 1939 and 1940, indicates that those who practice healthy habits stay free of disabilities longer. Class members were divided into low,

In a health center in Linzhou, American and Chinese physicians operated recently on Chinese peasants with state-of-the-art medical equipment to treat cancer of the esophagus. American doctors say

Using new molecular technologies, scientists can genetically engineer mouse embryos from scratch to contain precisely the same biological defects that cause diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis,

A research group from Shizuoka University said it has developed an efficient way to synthesize large quantities of a trio of oligosaccharides normally present in human breast milk. These sugars are

Drug development in Japan has dropped off sharply as domestic pharmaceutical companies find that testing overseas can be quicker and easier than doing the clinical studies at home. A drive begun in

More than one hundred refugees, mostly women and children have succumbed to enteric fever and diseases during the past 15 days in refugee camps in North Tripura where over 30,000 Reangs from Mizoram

Philip Morris Cos. agreed to pay $105 million to certain shareholders to settle a securities fraud lawsuit that claimed that the world's largest cigarette maker had misled consumers on the addictive

Some American children as young as a year old are being diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and doctors are treating supposedly hyperactive toddlers with a variety of drugs,

For a tiny germ, the tuberculosis bacterium takes a hige financial and human toll. It is the leading single infectious cause of female deaths in the world. Nine hundred million are infected