Agartala, Feb 9 (IANS) Pointing out that nearly 77 percent students in India do not reach Class 12, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has demanded a radical change in the ...

New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The Indian government is not providing adequate information about the hazards caused by an aluminium refinery of British mining major Vedanta in Orissa though it poses a ...

New York, Feb 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) This new report is going to be liked by all the beer fans. The National Institute of Health says that drinking beer may help in ...

Washington DC, Feb 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The H1N1 virus, which was better known as ‘swine flu’ is on the receding path. Experts are of the opinion that the H1N1 virus already has ...

By Madhuri Dey Atlanta, Feb 8, (THAINDIAN NEWS) After a very long run and claiming a huge number of lives in the United States, it seems that finally the H1N1 epidemic, or the ...

Dhaka, Feb 8 (IANS) Bangladesh has culled about 13,000 chickens after fresh outbreak of bird flu in the country last month, officials said Monday. Ataur Rahman, bird flu control room official, told ...

Washington, Feb 8 (IANS) Consuming two or more soft drinks per week doubles the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, says a new study. Although relatively rare, pancreatic cancer remains one of the most ...

Berlin, Feb 8 (DPA) For people who want to stop snoring, it often helps if they sleep on their side or with their upper body in a slightly raised position, the German ...

Hamburg, Feb 7 (DPA) Adolf Hitler probably had bad breath and unhealthy teeth, according to a German dentist who has studied the Nazi dictator's medical record, a media report said Sunday. "It is ...

Dhaka, Feb 7 (IANS) About 20 million people in Bangladesh are suffering from chronic kidney disease while 40,000 die of kidney failure in the country every year, Xinhua news agency reported Sunday. ...

Agra, Feb 7 (IANS) Top international gurus of neuro-surgery will share invaluable knowledge and pass on the latest skills to 200 Indian doctors at a two-day workshop in the city of the ...

Agra, Feb 7 (IANS) In order to make research in the field of homeopathy more potent, an international research centre in collaboration with six European countries was inaugurated here, with over 50 ...

New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur walked for life Sunday. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit walked too. From US Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer to ...

New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) The bivalent polio vaccine campaign was Sunday launched in two states - Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. Children below five years of age were administered the vaccine, capable ...

Bogota, Feb 7 (IANS/EFE) The deaths of four children and an adult from hemorrhagic dengue so far this year has led authorities of the southwestern Colombian city of Cali to declare a ...

Donaueschingen (Germany), Feb 5 (DPA) A German dentist refused to treat a 16-year-old boy this week because his first name means Jihad, the youth's father said Friday. The family in Donaueschingen may ask ...

New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) After months of wait, India is likely to start swine flu vaccination from Feb 19 and tens of thousands of medical practitioners will get the first ...

New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) The Medical Council of India (MCI) Friday proposed setting up of 300 medical colleges to provide education to rural students and deploy them there to provide basic ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Feb 5 (IANS) The small town of Ballabgarh in Haryana has become the focus of a major international medical probe after figures this week showed more Britons than ...

New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) A bivalent polio vaccine, capable of simultaneously controlling two strains of the virus, will be administered to children under five in the national capital for the first ...

New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) At least two more people have died in Delhi due to swine flu, health authorities said here Thursday. Though the details of the two are yet to be ...

New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) With people-doctor ratio six times lower in rural India in comparison to cities, the central government Thursday said it will produce 145,000 rural doctors through a truncated ...

Panaji, Feb 4 (IANS) The world's smallest echo-cardiogram (ECG) machine will be unveiled at an international echocardiography conference to be held in Goa next week, conference officials said. Addressing a press conference ...

By Madhuri Dey Feb 4, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A study that was conducted recently shows that infants who have lower levels of the brain chemical serotonin, are more likely to die of the Sudden ...

Patna, Feb 4 (IANS) Special strategies being implemented for eradication of polio in Bihar have led to a steady decline in cases of the disease reported in the state in 2009, a ...

Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) Combining blood pressure (BP) lowering diet with exercise and weight loss counselling seems to reverse high BP along with other benefits. James A. Blumenthal of Duke University Medical ...

London, Feb 4 (IANS) People glued to the Internet are more likely to suffer from depression, says the first large scale study of its kind. The Internet use and depression levels ...

By Richa Sharma New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) For 54-year-old Sharda Sethi, who was detected with breast cancer last year, life couldn't be more unfair. She had lost all hopes of survival and ...

Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) Researchers now have a clearer, if more complicated, picture of how one class of immune cells goes wrong when loaded with cholesterol. Their study shows that when it ...

DUBLIN (BNO NEWS) -- The swine flu vaccination programme is moving into its final phase in Ireland, authorities announced Wednesday. The vaccination programme, which began in late October 2009, initially targeted those of ...