Repetitive strain injury used to be considered an illness of middle aged office and factory workers. But more and more high school and college students are complaining of RSI

Despite technological advances in medical science, diseases like common cold and malaria continue to play havoc with large groups of populations more so in the third world. Malaria continues to be

Heart care Foundation of India has recommended that people in general and heart patients in particular should take typhoid vaccination to avoid the deadly water born

The total number of HIV infected people in Calcutta, at the end of the century, will be between 49,000 and 1,26,000, according to a study published in the latest issue of Indian Journal of Medical

For the first time in India, doctors have developed a technique by which a person's height can be increased by about ten inches through inexpensive surgery. The method, which involves surgery of the

The Manipal Heart Foundation has completed 1,000 major heart surgeries in nine months. Dr. Devi Shetty, Vice-Chairman, said that the surgeries, which had fetched about Rs. 6 crores, had enabled the

A proposal approved by the WHO Executive Board has envisaged a cut in allocation of funds to India by $5 million. It would now be less than $10

Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma on Saturday inaugurated the first satellite clinic of Indraprastha Apollo Hospital

The drug tamoxifen, already standard treatment for older victims of breast cancer, works equally well in young women and could save another 20,000 lives a year worldwide if given more widely,

About 100 diseased cows were dumped into the sea off the United Arab Emirates (UAE) coast late last month by the crew of an Indian ship, local newspapers said yesterday. The UAE auhtorities have