Panaji: Doctors at the Goa Medical College (GMC) and Hospital, Bambolim, will now have to take prior permissions - administrative and financial - from competent authority before conducting clinical

The Brazilian government announced Thursday it will set up a workgroup to study the effects of a substance called phosphoethanolamine, after it showed good results in cancer treatment.

A parasitic-worm-killing drug, whose discovery won the Nobel prize, may also cut cases of malaria, say researchers.

HAVANA, Cuba (Xinhua) -- A new Cuban vaccine for hepatitis B is undergoing clinical trials in seven Asian countries apart from Cuba, the Contemporanea newspaper reported Thursday.

A scientifically validated anti-diabetes herbal drug, named `BGR-34', was launched by a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratory in Lucknow on Sunday .

Researchers may have to comply with strin gent ethical and legal norms for testing new medicines on children.

50 Firms Vow To Follow Ethical Mktg Practices

In a bid to provide regulation and maintenance of standards of education and practice of allied and healthcare professionals, a new bill that seeks to maintain standards in the training and educati