A new wave of treatments is giving fresh hope to the 4m people worldwide who suffer from Parkinson's disease. Five drugs have recently reached the market, several others are in development, and more

Phytopharm, a small British company which develops drugs from plant extracts, has licensed a plant-based appetite suppressing compound to Pfizer, the big US pharmaceuticals group. The collaboration

Women who smoke while pregnant appear to pass a potent carcinogen to the babies developing in their wombs, according to researchers. "These results demonstrate a significant risk to the unborn child

President Clinton will appoint a high-level council to oversee food safety in the United States, an activity now performed seprately by a dozen agencies, a senior White House official

Minister : Delhi Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has asked citizens to stop using mustard oil for the time being, to prevent use of dropsy cases due to consumption of adulterated oil. As a

To get India free from leprosy, the Government of India has adopted Mofified Leprosy Elimination Campaign Programme (MLEC) at the instance of World Health Organisation. The objective of this

The American Embassy has refuted the alleged involvement of U. S. interests in adulteratation of mustard oil, which caused at least 50 dropsy deaths in New Delhi and affected many people in other

A number of patients returning after organ transplant or surgical operation in India and third countries have later developed hepatitis B or C, a deadly blood borne disease that is nearly 100 times

Japanese scientists say that tobacco plants could become a cheap source of a protein that can detect hepatitis B in donated blood. They have genetically engineered tonacco plants to produce a viral

Neurosurgeons in Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital and University College of Medical Sciences have successfully removed a tumour that affects the aural nerve in the brain through the ear, instead of the