Vegetarians around the globe have a reason to celebrate. More studies are showing that eating a balanced diet of fruits and vegetables can stave off many severe illness, including cancer.A new report

At least 20 million people are feared to be attacked by diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases after the recession of flood waters in the badly affected areas of Bangladesh, a primary estimate of

Dr. B. Nagrajan, Cancer Institute, Adyar, Chennai, has been awarded a grant of about Rs. 68 lakhs from the Indo French Centre for advanced research on cancer in collaboration with Dr. E. Tartour,

The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday it may declare Western Pacific countries finally free of polio. The 27 countries in the region had not recorded any case of polio this year, paving

Doctors have revealed a rising incidence of a flesh-eating disease which can kill up to half its victims. Young, healthy people with no external wounds have been found to be at risk

A hearing implant that relies on magnetic rather than acoustic vibrations promises to overcome many of the problems with traditional hearing aids. Researchers at the University of Virginia are

Research into a potential cancer vaccine has given encouraging initial results, Powderject Pharmaceuticals said. Its scientific collaborators at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the US

The chairman of national expert group on agriculture marketing suspected a well planned conspiracy in the recent incidence of mustard oil adulteration with argemone seeds.

The government will now charge a processing fee for blood. A unit of blood will cost Rs 250 at a government or voluntary blood bank. Private hospitals will be allowed to charge a maximum of Rs 500

At least 70 people have died from encephalitis in four southern districts of Nepal since the start of the monsoon season, officials said on