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Four years after tobacco company officials denied before a congressional committee in US that cigarettes were addictive, a new crop of executives has appeared before the same panel as supplicants,

A computer search of the medical literature on baldness by Dr Angela Christiano's led her to the Pakistani researchers, who had discovered people in a remote village with a rare, inherited

At least 108 patients have been injected with a medical reagent possibly contaminated by the protein which causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)- the human form of mad cow disease. The reagent a

Hong Kong officials say the bird flu crisis in the SAR is over. Fresh chicken will be back on Hong Kong people's dinner tables on February 7, but consumers have been warned they must change their

To facilitate collaborative research in biomedical science which entails exchange of biological materials between laboratories, the expert committee constituted by the Indian Council of Medical

With senior police officer Kiran Bedi taking up the cause of cleaning the environs around the famous Kirti Mandir in Porbunder, the 15,000 strong community of fishermen in the area could find

In a bid to part finance its Ninth and Tenth Plan projects, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has asked for fresh loans from the World Bank along with restructuring of its earlier loans.

Making provision for leasing instead of outright purchase of lands for corporate farming, in selected centres and encouraging research and development in both private and public sectors to develop

Indian Cotton Mills' Federation (ICMF) has proposed a joint committee to examine the high incidence of contamination in cotton. The industry considers Indian cotton to be one of the most

Greenpeace protested against Chilean plans to allow a major logging project in the rain forest of the far southern Tierra Del Fuego region. Members of the group demonstrated in the capital in front