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

A review from the University of Newcastle reveals that higher intakes of fish oils can help prevent sudden cardiac

When a legislator asked during a half-an-hour discussion in the Maharashtra Assembly if you could get AIDS from mosquito bites, Health Minister Daulatrao Aher, a doctor, was appalled.So was the Chief

The head of the Cardio-Thoracic Centre at the All India Institute of Medical Science, Professor P Venugopal, has been selected for the prestigious Dr B C Roy National Award in the category of eminent

Alarmed by an extraordinary dengue outbreak that has claimed nearly 400 lives since January, the Indonesian Government has launched a national mosquito fumigation programme, news reports said on

Indigenously-developed kits to detect the dreaded HIV infection were today transferred by the premier National Institute of Immunology to a private helath-care company in the presence of Union

A change in eating habits and in the living environment is putting the health of young people at greater risk, according to the National Cancer Institute.A rapid increase in young cases has been