Doctors in Germany claim to have found a permament cure for high blood pressure. They perform surgery to relieve the compression of nerves by arteries in the patient's neck, a disorder that is

Measles cases are showing a sharp increase in the country. The government, in a note, has warned that large-scale outbreak of the disease may occur next year, if immmediate steps are not taken. The

A 'mad cow' disease expert has warned that the presence of the fatal sickenss in sheep could be dangerous to humans and might therefore constitute a 'national emergency' in

Britain leads the world in cutting deaths from smoking, the British Association's annual science conference in Cardiff heard. Richard Peto, professor of medical statistics at Oxford University,

The UK government was facing the possibility of a new health scare following remarks by an expert on BSE that the disease could be present in sheep. Professor Geoffrey Almond, chairman of the sheep

At least 202 people have died in the Philippines of dengue fever, and more than 11,200 other have been hospitalized with the disease in the first eight months of this year, the Department of Health

The government blood bank in Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital in the Capital is not functioning for the past 20 days allegedly due to the non-availability of blood screening kit.

In an alarming disclosure, Godhra district collector A K Rakesh said around 60,000 litres of groundnut oil adulterated with Argemone mexicana had made it to the market in the Vadodara (Gujarat)

The WHO Director General, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, today called on the Finance Minister, Mr. Yashwant Sinha, and made out a cause for placing health at the core of the development agenda. The WHO

While the spread of dropsy has been contained after it claimed 49 lives over six weeks, largely due to ban on sale and consumption of mustard oil, experts have adviced restraint for some more time,