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)

Countering decades of promoting "breast is best" for infant nutrition, the United Nations is issuing recommendations intended to discourage women infected with the AIDS virus from breast-feeding.

A blood substitute, that is as effective as normal human blood, has been found. Reports from Chicago quoted a study reported in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons as

The population of quacks in Delhi is estimated to be a staggering 30,000 and the number is increasing with no effective legislation to curb their activities. The Quackery Prohibition Act, 1997,

Russian and American engineers have teamed up to develop a new, natural feeling prosthetic foot. It was invented in the mid 1970s by Mark Pitkin, a Russian born professor of mechanical engineering at

A joint research team from Kanazawa University and the Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy said it has developed an effective type of cancer vaccine that boosts the body's capacity to mount an anti-cancer

Indraprastha Apollo hospital has started Lasik surgery for correction of vision and removal of spectacles at New Delhi.