A confidential database of people being treated for HIV andtheir medical regimes will be set up later this year to address concerns that thousands of HIV patients are not on medication. The database,

The AIDS scare has hit the Aligarh city as 31 patients has tested HIV positive at the AIDS Surveillance Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College at Aligarh Muslim University. Among these, 27 belong

Brain tumors are one of the most frighening forms of cancer as they damage the soft sponge, packed inside the skull, that controls our lives. But there is glimmer of hope from a radical new treatment

Health Minister H C Mahadevappa today stated in the Legislative Assembly that production of anti-rabies vaccines would be increased at the State's only vaccine producing unit at Belgaum under the

The gloves are finally off in Washington and the real fight over tobacco legislation has begun. After months of talking about compromises and consensus the issue has now come down to a head to head

New approaches to preventing colds could be opened up by the discovery of the structure of part of the receptor that allows cold viruses to enter the body. US researchers found that a common cold

At a time when the Maharashtra government and the WHO boast of how close they are to eradicating leprosy by the year 2000, a recent house-to-house survey conducted by the state has shown a sharp

Prime Minister Vajpayee's concern expressed in Parliament over the alarming rise of tuberculosis in India has translated into action. The central government's tuberculosis project based on the

A miniature device to remove impurities from the human body has been developed by Russian scientists. The device, called biological fluids corrector, has been developed at Moscow's Sklifosovsky

Doctors at Owaisi Hospital and Research Institute (OHRI) in Hyderabad are carrying out experiments to find out if goat liver can be transplanted into humans. While doctors worldwide are looking upon