Soya beans are beibg touted as the new miracle food for women and may be for men, too, if recent research from Japan, the US and UK is to be believed Indian food scientists and technologists, who met

Eight million people in the US got food poisoning last year, according to the country's newest tracking system for food-borne illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the

The government has initiated the process for revising the national health policy to control the new situation arising out of emerging and re-emerging diseases. The government is also planning a big

An experimental pill appears to reduce a typical four-day bout of the flu by about a day and a half while making patients feel better, too, researchers said. It is one of the two closely related

A genetics pioneer Dr W. French Anderson wants to try gene therapy on foetuses in hopes of curing them of deadly diseases before they're ever born. But first he's asking scientists and ethicists to

The Delhi assembtly passed a Bill on Friday to regulate and strengthen Indian systems of medicine. The " Delhi Bharatiya Chikitsa Parishad Bill-1998", its objective is to establish a Council for

In countries from Vietnam in the north, with 84,500 cases so far, to Indonesia in the south, with at least 50,000 cases in the past five months of the year, the number of reported dengue infections

The operation to transplant the hand of a dead man on to the arm of Perth amputee Mr Clive Hallam was unlikely to succeed, one of Melbourne's leading microsurgeons predicted yesterday. An

Malaria is threatening to assume epidemic proportions in Orissa with 116 lives lost till June this year and the toll likely to touch 400 by the year-end.The problem has got aggravated by lack of

China plans to inject at least 30 million US dollars within the next three years to support human genome studies. Participants in the project said they will engage in research on genes related to