In a development that is good news to allergy sufferers, a research team from Hiroshima University said it has designed a new way to monitor and measure the release of specific molecules from single

Roche, the Swiss pharmaceuticals company, has won European Union approval to sell Xenical, the first of a new type of weight loss drugs. The clearance could help it restore its reputation after

Pioneering surgeons used to wait until the operation before claiming their 15 minutes of fame. Not anymore. In Louisville, US, last week a team of doctors announced their intention to perform "the

New evidence strongly suggests that it is time to add triglycerides to cholesterol and homocysteine as substances in the blood that influence your chances of developing heart disease. Triglycerides

Sponsored by the Wrold Health organisation, World Federation of Neurologists, World Psychiatric Association and International Psychogeriatric Association, the 14th International conference on

Hundreds of Australians are dying unnecessarily each year because they are not taking their asthma medication as directed, respiratory specialists have warned. A report released yesterday by the

The health ministry in Japan will review its food tagging system in an attempt to ease fears about allergic reactions and genetically manipulated produce, ministry sources said today. The

On an average 105 female infants were killed every month in Dharmapuri district throughout 1997. This was desptie the tall claims of successive state governments and the many schemes launched to

A woman, who did not have most of her reproductive organs since birth, has delivered a baby boy after a rare surgical intervention, the first of its kind in India, by a gynocologist in Calcutta.The

The slum dwellers of Karachi, constituting 40 per cent of its total population, are being provided with an usual deliverance against diseases they are quite vulnerable to. Mujahid Colony, a local