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,

A medical team, comprising a skin specialists, a Professor of Social and preventive Medicine, a micro-biologist and the District Medical and health Officer, left Visakhapatnam on Monday for

A new surgical technique to save gangrenous limbs has been developed by the Jalandhar based Tagore Heart Care and Research Centre. Surgeons in the department of cardiac surgery had used the technique

The government today decided to clear grant of import licence for vitamin-B1 bulk drug on actual user basis. An official release said quantity of imports of this bulk drug will be based on the past

An independent commission constituted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) will undertake a visit to the country in September this year to scrutinise the number of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)