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

One man was jailed and penalties totalling 98,000 pounds were imposed after a court heard how hundreds of bags of asbestos had been dumped around Birmingham, including in a school playground and a

Veterans of Gulf War have complained for years of a cluster of ill defined and often unexplained ailments they think are related to their service. Many believe that their wide ranging symptoms can

Celltech, the biotechnology company, said that its antibody treatment for Crohn's disease-a serious bowel condition-could reach the US market up to a year earlier than expected after the regulator