Italy is ageing fast; and according to the country's chief statistical body, Italy has the lowest fertility rate in the world. At last count, in 1996, deaths had outpaced births for four years in a

The Punjab Government will spend Rs 126 crore in the current financial year on the modernisation of the health sector in the state. The Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Mr Inderjeet Singh

Southeast Asia is witnessing a startling upsurge in dengue cases this year. More than 21,000 people in Indonesia are reported to be infected, and 490 have died so far. And there is no treatment for

The Health Ministry seems to have bitten off more than it can chew on the issue of banning gutka with a host of ministries opposing the move. An inter-ministerial meeting held last week revealed the

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