The World Health Organisation on Thursday launched the Reproductive Health Library in Mumbai to benefit its members in the developing

Social and economic upheaval after the collapase of Soviet Union has led to unemployment, poverty and sudden relaxation of social and legal taboos in Russia. This, coupled with an influx of heroin

With declinig markets in the West, tobacco companies are turning to the newly-opened economies of Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Vietnam. Their strategy is similar to that used in eastern Europe -

Scientists have identified a defective gene that can make a young person's heart stop beating for no apparent reason. The heart basically starts quivering instead, unable to pump blood efficiently.

More than 49,000 cattle in Britain at risk of developing mad cow disease are untraceable, according to an official memo reported here on Thursday. The missing cattle is part of the 140,000 animals

The tobacco industry spent more than $19 million on outside lobbyists last year - three times as much as in 1996 - most of it to press for passage of the proposed national tobacco

Lifestyle and proper diet are some of the measures which help in the treatment of osteoporosis a silent disease. Osteoporosis, which affects the bones, is increasingly becoming common in India,

A senate panel has finally managed to nibble around the edges of a tobacco bill, but its meeting was chock full of shouting, name-calling and gavel-banging, mostly among Republicans. Then, when the

A cure against genetic disorders like diabetes, jaundice, hypertension and deadly diseases like cancer and hepatitis may finally be realised with the development of a targetted gene delivery system

A new United Nation's survey of 152 countries has found that the United States is one of only six countries that do not have a national policy favouring the grant of paid maternity leave. Countries