Health:

 Thousands of people living near the mountain evacuated their homes to stay in government-provided shelters. 

 The Medica Superspeciality Hospital here Sunday launched an air evacuation and consulting service for patients in various cities in West Bengal and other states including upto Utta...

Indian farmers are injecting a hormone sometimes given to women during childbirth into vegetables and fruits to make the produce ripen sooner and gain weight, an Indian minister has warned.

In a letter to health ministry officials seen by AFP, junior health minister Dinesh Trivedi dem...

  Scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research have discovered that a particular family of enzymes are involved in the breakdown of proteins that modify the production of toxic fragments that lead to the pathology of Huntington's disease. These enzymes, matrix metalloproteinases (M...

 Observing forests and trees could offer a rapid and precise way to diagnose heart problems, revealed a study by Indian resear...

 In this week alone, 17 new swine flu cases have been reported in the Capital, taking the tally to 31. According to the state health official...

 In a medical breakthrough, scientists from Pentagon's research arm, Darpa, have developed "artificial" blood.

Darpa program launched in 2008 is coming to fruition, potentially providing medics an endless stream of uni...

Cigarette smoking is, to say the least, making our nation handicapped. It is the addiction that has rendered ...

BANGALORE/KARWAR: In a nuclear accident that is bound to raise key safety concerns ahead of India’s ambitious atomic expansion programme, about 45 employees of the Kaiga atomic power plant suffered radiation poisoning when radioactive heavy water from the plant contaminated the drinking wat...

Mountains of discarded computers and mobile phones could soon pose serious threats to public health and the environment in developing countries without swift action, the UN said Monday.

"Sales of electronic products in countries like China and India and across continents such as...

HAGA-GUN, Japan - Who says gasoline engines have reached their limit? A race to seek out the best mileage is out...