Parts of Eastern Europe and Russia are on the verge of a "true epidemic" of HIV infection, according to the director of the largest international AIDS organisation. The disease in that region is

The Union Health Ministry has issued fresh instructions to all Central Government hospitals in the Capital for prevention of dengue and other water-borne

Health Minister H C Mahadevappa today announced that the Karnataka State Government would shortly be printing and distributing Rs 12 lakh worth of health education material, including wall posters

Increased use of temporary methods to stop pregnancy may lower fertility rates significantly to 2.3 children per woman, a National Family Health Survey (NFHS) report on alternative contraceptive

The Delhi Government is launching an ambitious campaign from April 24 to create awareness about the fatal Thalassemia disease. On that day, special screening would be done at select hospitals of the

It was a novel programme of creating awareness on AIDS. The medium was magic and the performer was none other than Prof. R.K. Malayath, the leading exponent of this art in Kerala.The AATMA-98, (AIDS

The UK government's attempt to ban the sale of beef on the bone suffered an embarrassing setback when a Scottish court threw out the UK's first prosecution under the new

The Food Control Office at Man Kam To is Hong Kong's first line of defence against any pestilence brewing across the Chinese border. Each day, about 400 trucks come to the station's loading docks,

Independent of one another, research teams at Johns Hopkins University and Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland recently made the surprising discovery that medicines originally developed to

With cases of diseases like leptospirosis on the rise, the Gujarat Government has decided to take out a Jeevan Raksha yatra from May 1 to 7. The aim of this yatra is to educate people on how to