For the first time, women account for half of all people infected with the AIDS virus worldwide, a major study reported. The demographic change has been driven partly by an increase in heterosexual
The World Health Organization confirmed an outbreak of flu in rebel-controlled northern Congo, and the country's health minister said more than 500 people have died. Deaths have been recorded in a
The Aids epidemic is causing the spiralling disintegration of some of the poorest countries in Africa, precipitating famine and social, political and economic collapse, says the latest official
The Sri Lankan health ministry is considering the possibility of providing all AIDS patients in the country with free medication for AIDS, revealed Dr. Iyanthi Abeywickrema Director of the STD/AIDS
The Delhi high court has ordered mobile courts to be set up the city's to punish those involved in cruelty to animals. The courts, to be the first of their kind in the country, will be manned by
As many as 5809 booths will be set in Himachal Pradesh to administer oral polio vaccine to all children aged up to five years on January 5 and February 7 under the polio eradication campaign.
Up to 10 million US health workers, police officers and firefighters are to be vaccinated against smallpox, according to a Bush administration official. Half a million health workers will be
Five million people will have become infected with HIV this year, bringing to a record 42 million the number of individuals living with aids or the virus that causes it, the United Nations said on
Serious localised HIV epidemics in different parts of the country are affecting millions of people and this is not reflected in the official prevalence rate of less than one per cent. A new UN report
As the Union health ministry sought comprehensive details of the loss of vision of more than 25 people, the three member fact- finding medical team collected culture samples from 12 such victims to
The first AIDS vaccine currently under stage-one of development in the US by Therion Biological Corporation, will be researched for its second phase of development in India during the fourth quarter
The directive from the Supreme Court to the Centre and the Governments of States and Union Territories to furnish status reports on the implementation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques
Parliament today gave its nod to a Bill empowering the Centre to regulate opening of new colleges in the Indian system of medicine and their courses with the Government saying that it aimed at
With nine cases of malaria reported from the nurses hostel of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, panic stricken officials blamed the Calcutta Municipal Corporation for not taking adequate
The genome sequences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Plasmodium falciparum will soon lead to formation of new drugs to treat TB and malaria effectively. Presently a paper on the first day of the
The Orissa Government's efforts aimed at ensuring food security in the backward interiors of the state and schemes such as the food-for-work programme have been of much
The Transport Department will work with the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Bangalore, Karnataka, to create awareness against pollution, Transport Commissioner Thimme Gowda said at a press
Union Coal and Mining Minister, Uma Bharti, expressed concern over the starvation deaths in the Madhya Pradesh. She also inaugurated the BJP's membership
The Indian AIDS paradox where home pharmaceutical companies export anti-HIV drugs even as the same is hard to find in government hospitals was taken up at the first congregation of health
India is experiencing serious, localized HIV/AIDS epidemic with nearly 3.97 million people carrying the dreaded virus, the second highest after South Africa, according to a UNAIDS report. HIV
