Out of the 472,000 lepers diagnosed in China from 1949 to 1997, 430,000 have been cured and there were only about 6,000 lepers in the country by the end of 1997, according to one expert. Chen

The world's first vaccine against the leading cause of childhood diarrhoea, a virus that hospitalises thousands of children each year and kills one million in other countries, has won approval by the

French researchers have isolated a new strain of the AIDS virus in West Africa that appears to have close genetic links to a version that infects non-human primates such as chimpanzees. It's a

India had witenssed more than 30 epidemics of dropsy over past hundred years due to accidental or deliberate adulteration of weed Argemone Mexicana (Mexican poppy) with mustard oil, according to Prof

A Senate committee has concluded that while the government failed many U.S. veterans of the Gulf War, there is insufficient evidence to conclude that explosure of Iraqi nerve gas caused the illnesses

French researchers have discovered in Africa a new strain of the virus that causes AIDS that is so different from other known strains that it easily escapes detection by standard blood screening

Delhi health minister Harsh Vardhan has repeatedly appealed to mustard oil traders to destroy stocks or return the same to producers. But how is this to be done? While officials themselves seem

The LIC will soon launch a new health policy called "Jeevan Asha" covering about 30 diseases. Addressing a press conference on the 42nd anniversary of the LIC, Senior Divisional Manager R C Agarwal

Unborn children could hold the key to performing operations that leave no scarring revealed a British doctor. The team discovered that by injecting foetal tissue into patients, their wounds healed

The government is likely to ban use of mustard oil in the manufacture of vanaspati to check the spread of dropsy caused by adulterated mustard oil.