An advisory panel at the US Food and Drug Administration recommended approval of an eagerly awaited vaccine for Lyme disease, a potentially fatal illness afflicting about 15,000 Americans each year,

The European Commission announced a June 1 date for the resumption of beef exports from Northern Ireland, which were banned more than two years ago over the "mad cow" disease

The city is in the grip of a gastroenteritis outbreak, with several hundred patients, mostly children being admitted to hospitals with acute cases of the water-borne

Health officials in Ho Choi Minh City have banned the anti-impotence drug Viagra pending a Ministry of Health review of its

What is claimed to be the first heart bypass operation by a robot has been carried out here, officials at Leipzig University have said.

Impotency drug 'Viagra' has been banned in Vietnam. The ban would continue till the ministry of health examines, whether it is safe to take this drug or not.

The Delhi Government has decided to observe June as 'anti-malaria and anti-dengue' month. Apart from meetings in all zones of the local bodies, talks will be arranged on radio and television besides

Every year 10,000 newborn babies in India could be saved from a fatal disorder, had their parents undergone a simple blood test before marriage to find out a possible errant gene. Doctors say over 30

There have been 15 deaths from chicken pox, measles, "vomiting and diarrhoea" and "fever" in the last seven days in the Sahidnagar locality of Sahibada, less than a kilometre from Delhi. Ten of the

Surgeons at a government hospital here have turned a 25-year-old male into a female, providing him with a new identity complete with a new set of