The death of at least 13 children due to an as-yet unidentified illness over the last fortnight has flummoxed the medical community in Gurgaon. The children, all between two months and four years,

Nearly 56.8 per cent children - below the age of four - are underweight and 70 per cent pregnant women anaemic in West Bengal, according to the Unicef' State of the World's Children's Report for

A nurse was forced to give up work when she developed asthma from passive smoking through her duties in a private nursing home, a coury in Manchestor, northern England,

Following reports of jaundice deaths in city colonies, the Kalyan-Dombivili Municipal Council yesterday began a survey in its 96 wards. According to reports, 118 cases of Hepatitis B virus infection

The government is worried that foreign aid in the health sector may be slashed drastically in the coming years and is taking urgent measures to prevent it. The government fears that in the World

The battle to cure cancer, fought for three decades marked by failure and frustration, suddenly is in overdrive. Just a few weeks ago, reports rocked the medical world about two drugs that show

A nasal spray vaccine is showing promise as an effective way of immunising children against flu, according to US researchers. Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the US found the

The World's largest organisaion of eye doctors called for more studies into the newly approved impotence drug, Viagra, and said users with some types of eye problems should stay away from higher

A British Government attempt to have the worldwide ban on British beef exports declared illegal under the European Union law failed in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Tuesday. In the

Two meat factories in Northern Ireland have been given a clean bill of health by European Commission veterinary inspectors. The move could lead within weeks to the first exports of UK beef in more