Clear evidence is emerging about the importance of improving maternal nutrition for preventing chronic later-life disease in children - before they have children of their own.Building a sturdy baby

The lowering of fund allocation to the AIDS control programme in the Union Budget reflects a "lack of vision" since India has over eight million HIV infected people, according to the Indian Health

In the U.S. Viagra, the anti-impotence pill sells for less than $10 per pill. Only Thailand has approved local sales of the prescription medicine, so men in the rest of Asia are paying up to $80

A total of 29 provinces and cities in China have formulated regulations banning smoking in public places. China has about 320 million smokers. A survey shows that over 90 per cent smokers smoke in

The first manual on "dietary guidelines for Indians" has been prepared by the Hyderabad based National Institute of Nutrition in Hyderabad. The director-general of Indian Council of Medical Research,

An Indian scientist has recently bagged two international awards for her work on medicinal plants. Pushpa Khanna, a retired scientist from the department of botany at the University of Rajasthan in

The European Union's medicines agency said that its scientific advisory committee had recommended that Pfizer Inc.'s impotence treatment Viagra be marketed in

Diabetic patients may someday reduce their insulin injections and lead more normal lives beacuse of new insights gained through innovative space research in which the largest insulin crystals ever

U.S. Federal authorities have given approval for the first urine test for the AIDS-causing human immuno deficiency virus type 1(HIV-1), the system's manufacturer has

American scientists have worked out how the common cold infects human cells, and believe that the discovery could lead eventually to a cure. Two teams, from Purdue University in West Layafette,