The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for opening up of health insurance to private sector participation for allowing healthy conpetition and has suggested a separate medisave scheme on

Scientists at the Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) say that, no matter how tea is drunk, it may have a role to play in the war against

President Bill Clinton has decided to order the stockpiling of vaccines and antibiotics to treat huge numbers of civilians in the event of an attack against the United States with biological weapons,

Medical clinics in Wisconsin have resumed performing first trimester abortions after local law enforcement officials reassured them that physicians would not be prosecuted under a new state law that

The government intends to bring about a legislation soon to stop NGOs in the country from holding blood donation camps on their own. Their role, henceforth, will be limited to assisting in the

A committee set up by the Delhi government to review the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act has suggested changes allowing the use of more food colours and negligible presence of todent hair in

A study by a team at the University of California in San Francisco of 300,000 women suggests the interval between pregnancies can influence the weight of a newborn child. The researchers

A nasal spray that acts as a vaccine against influenza-that's what researchers at Vandebilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tennessee, are working on. Dr. Thomas Boyce says the experiments

Exports of beef from the UK seem certain to resume on June 1 following moves in Brussels this week to end the two year ban on overseas

Scientists at University College London have identified a gene associated with physical performance in humans. Scientists found evidence that the I type of the ACE gene, rather than the D type, is