A drug for breast cancer, tamoxifen, significantly reduces the rates of recurrence and death from the disease among surprisingly wide range of women but is being prescribed to far too few patients,

The new Governor of West Bengal, Mr. A.R. Kidwai, has sought a status report from the State Government on the extent of arsenic contamination in ground

Swedish researchers said they had found an apparent link between using mobile telephones and fatigue, headaches and tingling and heat sensations in the ear and

The Bhutan Health Trust Fund was launched in Geneva by the Deputy Prime minister for Health and Education, coinciding with the 51st session of the World Health

With as much as Rs 276 crore coming in from the tobacco industry, advertising agencies in India are altering strategies to abide by a new code, what would ban commercials luring children into smoking

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a 'super aspirin' to prevent blood clots. The new medicine, inspired by snake venom, could dramatically reduce the risk of heart attacks in people

Dubbed as a virus deadlier than the AIDS causing "HIV", Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) kills 2.5-lakh Indians every year, notwithstanding a simple vaccine that could keep fatal liver disorders away. Almost

Abortion clinics across Wisconsin have shut down after one of the nation's most sweeping "partial birth" abortion bans went into

Hong Kong, once known as one of the gastronomic capitals of the world, is sliding toward international infamy - as a place where food is so foul it can

Scientists are exploiting their discoveries instead of leaving the task to drug companies : a