The Orthopaedic Research Society, Department of Orthopaedics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, is organising an international conference and workshop on total knee replacement, on April

A defunct company may have exported tainted blood to Asian countries including India from 1992 to 1996, the Austria Press Agency reported on Wednesday. APA, quoting police officials in Linz, 160 km

At least 106 persons have been affected by gastroenteritis in Golaghat district of upper Assam with two of them succumbing to the disease since the beginning of April, joint director of health

A city scientist, who drew international media attention in late 1997 claiming to have discovered an insulin-shot substitute, said he was weary of waiting for a patent."More than six moths after

For the first time in India, a pathogen believed to be rare, and so far reported only from the human body in gastroenteritis cases, has been isolated from water by a Delhi University lecturer.

The head of R. J. Reynolds Co. said that his company would no longer work toward getting US Congress to approve a comprehensive tobacco settlement. He said that his firm stood behind a deal

In the largest commitment yet by a major pharmaceutical company in the field of genomics, Novartis AG of Switzerland said it would invest $250 million in a proprietary research institute to be built

Indians today have heart attacks 2.5-to-five times more frequently than people in the West, and by the year 2020 heart disease will be the top killer disease in

Dr V Saldana, of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) today said that the services of more NGOs will have to be availed of, to gather AIDS related data in the North East. He agreed that the

Nearly a year after the Assistant drug Controller of India cautioned hospitals about possible contamination of intravenous fluids, a city hospital has reported visible contamination of the IV fluid