After HIV and Hepatitis B, which continue to wreak havoc with the lives of many unsuspecting people, an infection which can cuase serious short and long term complications and result in fatality in a

Boston lawyers are mounting an assault on tobacco companies over alleged harm suffered by restraurant workers from second hand smoke. Advertisements appeared in Massachusetts papers seeking employees

Scientists urged the UK government to restrict smoking in public places, after concluding that passive smoking causes lung cancer and heart diseases. The Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health,

They keep anthrax bacteria in the basement of a faded red brick building, not far from the yellow fever virus, the botulism bacteria and some of the hundreds of organisms that cause the common cold.

Every year, doctors come across hundreds of cases wherein spurious gulal causes health problems involving the eyes, skin and respiratory system - toxicity and allergy being the most common of them.

Viral fever is staging a comeback in the Capital. Doctors at various hospitals say that there has been a renewed spurt in the cases of this infectious disease in the past few days. Around a month

Deadly cancers can now be detected before it is too late, thanks to new techniques that are not only faster and more effective but less painful. Just a few cells sucked out from the affected tissue

A high-level team of the Population Census Organization, Islamabad, paid surprise visits to Central, East and South districts and conducted random interviews of different families through the "Field

A new strain of adenovirus is suspected to have caused the death of 31 children in Sarawak last year. It was identified using classical virological methods by a team from the Institute of Health and

The Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd, a SPIC group company based at Chennai, has bagged for the second consecutive year the contract for spraying 'Spicbiomoss' in the Kochi Corporation