A fourth grade science project by Emily Rosa debunks therapeutic touch but it doesn't explain why it sometimes works. Rosa's target was therapeutic touch whose proponents manipulate patients "energy

It is ironic that Kalyan Singh, patriarch of a 92-member ministrial fraternity, should detest jumboo families. During his five month tenure, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister's role in popularising

Every year thousands of Indian women fall prey to easily preventible cancers through ignorance and neglect say specialists. "Eighty per cent of the women who seek treatment for oral, cervical or

The Institute of Neurological Science, one of the eminent medical insitutes of Guwahati has exhibited unprecedented success in the field of medical treatment with the successful operations of risky

Courting controversy, the Union Health Ministry is working on a proposal to ban the manufacture and sale of chewing tobacco and gutka across the country. A draft notification is ready and is expected

The government of Delhi would launch a Special Leprosy Eradication Programme in the second week of July in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The programme aims at creating mass awareness and

As many as 121 suspected cases of "Monkey's disease", which claimed 29 lives from 1991 to 1996 in Karnataka, has been detected in the state between November 1997, and March 1998, a top official of

When it comes to public health, how far should governments compel people to do what is good for others : a

A city scientist, who drew international media attention late last year claiming to have discovered an insulin-shot substitute, said he was weary of waiting for a

The most recent figures released by the British government on the latest tally of deaths from new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD), the human form of mad cow disease released on April