The cancer specialist, Dr. Prafulla B. Desai, of the Tata Memorial Centre(TMC), Mumbai, has won the $150,000 Mucio Athayde Cancer prize for 1998 awarded by the International Union Against Cancer. Dr.

Police in BadenWurttemberg are scouring supermarket shelves for baby food poisoned by a blackmailer demanding 800,000 marks (US $ 450,000) from Nestle, the food multinational.

The Embassy of Japan has agreed to provide a financial assistance of US $21,325 to Ghartichhap Village Development Committee, Ghartichhap for the execution of the construction project of a sub

Doctors in Hong Kong have found antibodies to the "bird flu" virus in health workers, renewing fears that the virus that killed six persons in Hong Kong could be spread by human

European Union scientists appeared to back a UK ban on the sale of T-bone steak in a move which could herald a toughening of Brussels rules to prevent the spread of BSE, or mad cow disease. After a

As part of the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme, stray dogs in T.Nagar area will be sterilised, given anti-rabies vaccine and tagged with Corporation licence during a three-month project slated

The commercial trade in human body parts is no longer confined to the poorer developing countries, it seems - eastern and central Europe is now becoming a source of cheap human kidneys and other

Dr. Marc K. Hellerstein, associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has a method for precisely measuring cell creation. He replaces a hydrogen atom on glucose molecules with the

A new gene therapy for Parkinson's disease has been developed by a research team from Nagoya City University, the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, and Fujita Health University. The team

The Vice-President, Mr. Krishan Kant, has called for a well-coordinated and sustained multipronged effort to achieve the goal of eliminating leprosy by the year 2000. For this, a thorough change in