At present nearly 40,000 children in Nepal succumb to pneumonia, respiratory diseases take the second spot as the children's killer disease in the country. In rural settings, the smoke generated at

The Gujarat Government proposed to launch a "Malaria forecasting and Training Centre" with financial aid from the British Council to take preventive measures against the disease, the Health Minister,

Rajasthan has the highest number of kidney stone patients in the country, making it the "stone belt", an expert in endoscopy and laproscopy surgery has said.The disease is particularly rampant in the

Women may soon have one less thing to worry about in pregnancy. A salive test that reveals the risk of premature labour was approved by America's Food and Drug Administration recently. It tests for

Chillies are on the menu of researchers developing a new type of pain reliever : a

Japanese scinetists said recently they have built an artifical chromosome, which might aid efforts to use gene therapy to treat disease such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.

A cup of tea may be all the protection we need against bugs that have become resistant to antibiotics. Scientists at Cambridge University who are investigating a bacterium called methicillin

Several cardiologists have opined that the best way of preventing and treating coronary artery disease (CAD) is to follow a life style based on low-fat, high fibre diet, exercise and relaxation

The prescription of cannabis, the soft but illegal street drug, is justifiable to relieve the symptoms of AIDS and certain cancers, says a study comissioned by the UK health

Biotechnologies once considered RNA as DNA's poor relation. But "ribozymes"-pieces of RNA that act as enzymes-are offering new disease treatments and new interest for drug