Fanned by a decade of ethnic war and upheaval, a fast growing AIDS epidemic has broken out of this country's cities and is sweeping through the rural areas, health officials and aid workers say. Even
Doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences here have implanted an improved electronic device on a completely deaf patient, helping him hear again. This is third patient to be implanted with
In an interim order, the Delhi High Court today asked the Indraprastha Apollo hospital to open its out patient department with effect from June 10 for the needy and deserving
Paracetamol was a safer option for fever management, than non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) which had become popular first-line treatment, former head of paediatrics, All India
The promise of a $200 million World Bank package to fight the galloping spread of HIV/AIDS in India has prompted Non-Government Organisations to scramble for a piece of the action. "We expect to get
The deaf can hear again : Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences have implanted an improved electronic device in a completely deaf patient, helping him hear again. This is the third
There is a way to head off resistance before it occurs. By reading the genetic codes of viruses as they mutate and evolve in actual patients, Robert M. Lloyd Jr., scientific director at Applied
Sarvodaya activists will hold "Salt Satyagrahas" in 100 towns across Rajasthan from June 5 to 18 to protest against the nationwide ban on use of natural salt which became effective from
In India, tobacco claims ten lakh lives every year, 3,000 lives every day and one life every ten seconds. By the year 2000, it will claim one life every three seconds. Two crore Indian children get