In September, the Environmental Protection Agency will start seeking public reaction to one of the largest environmental testing programs ever. Under Congressional mandate, the agency proposes to

Dendritic cells are the pacesetters of the human immune system-they regulate the activity of immune cells in lymph nodes. Researchers at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center (UPMC) are

Escape gas masks, life-saving equipment purchased by Coal India Limited and meant to provide respiratory protection to coal miners, have been found to be posing health risks to miners.

On the pattern of the Punjab Health Systems Corporation, the state government has been drawing up a project for improving health services in rural dispensaries.

Needed medicines are hard to find, and state-of-the-art treatment is rare: Cuba's health system, the jewel of Castro's revolution and pride of the Third World, is in grave condition. In many ways, it

There is an emerging AIDS catastrophe in Cambodia unilike any seen outside sub-Saharan Africa. Cambodia has already surpassed Thailand as Asia's most infected country, and in less than half the time

Neuroscientiststs at Stanford and Harvard have been able to show that neural activity in certain brain regions predicts what experiences will be remembered later. The study at Stanford involved

The Tagore Heart Care and Research Centre, Jalandhar, claims to have developed a new surgical technique to save gangrenous limbs. In a unique operation, a team of cardithoracic surgeons used the

The battle against mosquitoes is being stepped up in Hong Kong after a sharp rise in the number of cases of dengue fever spread by the insects. Five cases were notified in 1996 and 10 last year, but

The latest victim is a 65-year-old woman from Kowloon City who started suffering diarrhoea on August 8. She spent three days at Queen Elizabeth Hospital before moving to Princess Margaret Hospital,