The Voluntary Health Services (VHS), Chennai, has planned to launch six STD/HIV/AIDS control and intervention projects among the commercial sex workers at various places in the State at an estimated

It sometimes seems that with each passing year, the days and nights zip by more quickly. If you ever had this feeling, you are not imagining it. Studies of human time perception show that age related

Caught in the haze? : After a week of day and night negotiations on tobacco legislation, leading US senators have agreed to drive up the price of a pack of cigarettes by $1.10 over the next five

Heart Care Foundation of India and the Academy Chapter of the Indian Medical Association, New Delhi Branch, have recommended a new adult vaccine, Vaxi Grip, against flue virus called influenza. The

The umbilical cord, the bulk of which is "Mucoid Connective Tissue" (MCT), can bridge the bone gaps and expedite the therapeutic healing of fractures in human beings, according to latest findings by

More than two lakh people in the industrial township of Modinagar(Ghaziabad) are living with sewer water and air pollution--and a high rate of malaria-- with neither the local city board nor the

"Vikalp", a programme to restructure reproductive health and family planning in Rajasthan's two most populous districts, Dausa and Tonk, has shown positive results. Launched in 1995, Vikalp was

About 20 people reportedly lost their eyesight after undergoing intra-ocular transplant (IOT) operations at Basti branch of world-famous Sitapur eye hospital. Although cases of people losing their

The US government is recommending use of a new HIV test that yields results instantly instead of a week later. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta says the rapid test will

Experts have expressed concern over the drastic increase in the number of HIV positive cases in Rajasthan during the past three years. Till the end of the previous year, the State had 340 cases