Hospital patients could die because of slippage in the UK government's drive to tackle the millennium bomb, MPs on the Commons public accounts committee will claim soon. A report by the committee

By AD 2008 Ahmedabad is expected to have an estimated 28,000 cases of AIDS, most of whom will also be suffering from a deadly variant of tuberculosis which is resistant to the existing TB drugs.

History repeats itself every four years so it is said. The same city of Surat, the same river, the same water and the same dam of Ukai. But for the change in the officials who man the city and the

Japanese encephalitis, a Vector-Borne Disease (VBD), alone caused 407 deaths in Nepal in 1997, shows the record at the Ministry of Health (MOH). According to Dr Mahendra Bista, director of

Herbal medicines range from potent pharmaceuticals to useless and sometimes hazardous substances, although it is often hard to determine which category a given preparation falls into. Those are among

Philip Morris Cos. of the U.S. has expanded its market tests for Accord, a battery-powered "cigarette smoking system" that claims to eliminate sidestream smoke, ashes and most lingering odor.

Philip Morris and British American Tobacco secretly joined forces to fix cigarette prices and divide markets in Argentina, Venezuela and other Latin American countries, according to internal

State blood banks (West Bengal) have curtailed usage of banks manufactured by a Central government undertaking following complaints that some of them, used to store blood, have been found

Still recovering from the spate of deaths due to floods and landslips, parts of Nepal are now in the grip of a viral encephalitis epidemic. Some 70 deaths due to viral encephalitis, commonly referred

A national conference-cum-workshop on Childhood Asthma will be held at Delhi on September 19 to 20 to disseminate knowldege about the consensus Indian guidelines on asthma that has been evolved