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Militancy in the North Eastern States has claimed yet another caualty : The HIV-AIDS campaign has virtually ground to a halt with the rise in militant inspired violence, just as some states are

Within a year, if all goes well, the first cancer patient will be injected with two new drugs that can eradicate any type of cancer, with no obvious side effects and no drug resistance-in mice. The

So many young Burmese are injecting heroin that some medical exeprts say Burma has the world's highest rate of HIV infection and AIDS contracted from AIDS needles. By 1994, the Global Program on AIDS

Buyer beware : Studies have shown that patients make more visits each year to alternative care practitioners than to primary care physicians, and most of them pay out of their pockets for the care

Larvivorous species of fish Gumbusia Afnis will be used a control malaria in the M P. A comprehensive scheme has been chalked out jointly by the Health and Fisheries Departments to undertake breeding

Contrary to the tall claims about the Government's tireless efforts for family planning, the percentage of vasectomy among men in Rajasthan has registered a sharp decline from 15 per cent in 1985 to

The demand for arecanut in the country is likely to crash in the next few years with more states planning to impose a ban on the use of panmasala. Already Kerala, Goa and Maharashtra, which are in

Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals(I) Ltd is developing a single shot four-in-one India specific vaccine for dreaded disease like hepatitis B, diptheria, tetnus and whooping cough. The vaccine,

An Indian firm is launching an ayurvedic memory drug in the UK targeted at sufferers of Alzeimer's disease. Memory Plus, developed by the Delhi-based Velvet International, is derived from the Brahmi

One-tenth of the world's blind live in India and the country faces gross inadequacy of opthalmic personnel and lack of services in remote areas. Of the estimated 38 million blind people in the world,

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