Lottery cash is to be switched into funding cancer treatment and other services traditionally funded from taxes. Tony Blair, the UK prime minister, said the lottery cash would be used to bring cancer

The UK biotechnology sector received a boost with the news that Chiroscience, one of its more successsful members, had discovered the gene that controls the human autoimmune system. If the discovery

The largest international charity operating in North Korea announced that it was pulling out because the Communist government had refused to give the charity access to a large population of

A three-day national conference on quality assurance in health care inputs from science and technology would be held in Hyderabad from November

Human physiology never crease to baffle. In a curious case of genetic disorder , over 60 persons of the same lineage in Madanayakanahalli, have "webbed" hands. Each person has more than five fingers

rather slow on health : Lovers of fast food beware| All the hasty and tasty food flooding the market as fast food is not safe. Rich in fats and other preservatives, it could lead to many a heart and

A safe and eco-friendly mosquito coil using only plant-based materials, has been developed by the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore, as an alternative to the synthetic

Abbattoirs in UK would have paid more heed to regulations aimed at protecting the public from BSE if they had been forced more properly by the Ministry of Agriculture, the public inquiry into the

The outbreak of diarrhoea and gastroenteritis in Orissa's Kalahandi district has claimed 37 lives during the last 10 days, according to health department

A team of US researchers said that a protein found in snake venom might fight breast cancer. Reports from Boston quoted the researchers as saying that the protein halted tumour growth by preventing