Job dissatisfaction is a significant contributor to aches, pains and other physical ailments reported by supermarket employees, according to a UK study. The findings were reported by the Health and

Tuberculosis, commonly thought to be an elderly man's affliction, has become the No. 1 killer of young women, notably in poor countries, the World Health Organization

Six million healthy Americans with ordinary cholesterol levels might benefit from taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, researchers say. Healthy mean and women taking lovastatin, sold as Mevacor,

Chinese scientists plan to develop a new technology and use it to test cancer cells or "signals" of cancer development, such as mutated gene, hoping they can forecast cancer in the years to come. The

Based on a 1990 nationwide survey epidemiologists estimate that of about 700 million Chinese , a staggering 62.6 percent of the population harbor one or more types of parasites. Most of them live in

In spite of US government sanctions imposed against India in protest against its nuclear tests, the World Bank is all set to approve a massive Rs 550 crore in aid to Maharashtra for various health

The Kerala Health Minister, Mr. A.C. Shanmughadas, has said that a scheme for providing free treatment to leprosy patients will be implemented soon to eradicate the disease from the State by 2000

A new spirit of competition between academic and commercial researchers is invigorating the Human Genome Project, the international effort to unravel our entire genetic code. As a result of two

After a year-long existence like a smoke ring around Delhi smokers, the anti-smoking law now threatens to tighten around them. The Delhi gobvernment has decided to empower its anti-smoking brigade by

Methi, a common ingredient of Indian cooking, has led to improvement of insulin responses in diabetic subjects, studies done by doctors at the All Indian Institute od Medical Sciences have