Women smokers have a 50 per cent higher risk of dying from a heart attack than men who smoke, say researchers. A likely reason is that tobacco smoke has an adverse effect on the female hormone

This city will soon have Asia's largest heart hospital. The project, christened "Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Scineces" will be set up at Mukundapur, on the eastern fringe

Dengue fever has killed 21 people and infected thousands more in the Indonesian capital Jakarta since the start of this year, sparking fears of an

In an effort to combat the dreaded disease AIDS in Mizoram the WHO has provided Rs 1 crore as assistance through the National AIDS Control Organisation, New

Participation of the community people, especially women, in interventions can reduce the prevalence of malnutrition in children within a short time. It was observed in an assessment report on the

In all, 44 acquired AIDS cases were reported in Andhra Pradesh besides 939 HIV positive cases during a period of seven

WHO : The WHO has estimated that the donor support for the polio eradication programme in the South East Asia region needs to be increased by 15 per cent this year and 25 per cent next year to meet

A deadly flu epidemic which may hit Australia in July could kill up to 2,700 people, Health Minister Michael Wooldridge said on

According to research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Johanna Bjorkman, Diarmaid Hughes and Dan Andersson, biologists at Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute

Private hospitals have locked horns with the state government by challenging the legal validity of the government's Jeevan Dayi scheme which provides free surgical treatment to poor patients.