Teenagers in Brazil gave birth to 900,000 babies last year, thus accounting for 26.5 per cent of all live births in the country. Girls between the ages of 10 and 14 years gave birth to 1.23 per cent

Television advertising of prescription drugs is spiralling upwards in the US after a rule change last year which allowed such advertising for the first time. Mass media campaigns promoting brand-name

A "bioartificial liver" based on pig liver cells, is set to go into late phase clinical trials in the US and Europe over the next two months. The HepatAssist Liver Support System is designed to

At least 1,893 HIV positive cases have so far been reported in Kerala so far, state's health minister A C Shanmughadas told the State Assembly on Wednesday.The maximum number of 496 cases had been

Scientists said on Monday they had developed a cheaper new kind of rabies vaccine that could protect poeple against the deadly virus. They said the new vaccine, which uses genetic material from the

The Gujarat health Minister, Mr. Ashok Bhatt, has said that an epidemic forecast centre, the first of its kind in the country, would be set up in Ahmedabad

Uttar Pradesh's first ever test-tube baby was born to Reeta and Kanchan Ahluwalia last Saturday at the Malhotra Nursing Home in Agra. Dr R M Malhotra of the Malhotra Test Tube Baby Centre announced

It's a search that has cut across political and geographical barriers. And, though the response has been over whelming, a 13-year-old Delhi girl suffering from leukaemia still awaits a bone marrow

China recorded its first Aids case in 1985. Since then, HIV infections have risen to an estimated 300,000 say experts. A recent Ministry of Health report predicts the number could rise as high as 10

India is to convey to the WHO Director General, Dr. Gro Harlem Bundterland, its deep concern over some recent trends which point towards the dilution of the international organisation's focus on the