Twitter is coming of age – and got a little more serious last week. That was when bosses at Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) declared war on Hamas, and they chose the micro-blogging social network to do so instead of the usual means of press conferences, or television and radio announcements.

Nearly 10 per cent of higher secondary students of city government schools are hypertensive and 26 per cent are anaemic, according to a new medical study.

The Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospita

Chennai has always been the leader in voluntary blood donation. However, there is a trend that is noticeable in donor patterns, say officials of key blood banks in the city.

“Every monsoon, we see a

The 7,000-km long Indian coastline that is home to 30 per cent of the country’s population faces a huge threat from unbridled sand mining and commercial coastal activity.

“In AP, the Nellore and God

Activists who term biotechnology as evil, are often emotionally driven, and lack sound scientific proof to their claims against genetically modified (GM) crops, say industry experts. “The agitation a

The use of genetically modified crops has not led to any substantial increase in food production, Dr Hans Herren, the president of the Millenium Institute and a World Food Prize laureate said here on

The brain holds a substantial connect with the formation of diabetes, and if the factors are zeroed in, and effective solutions tailored to prevent it, we may well conquer one of the major diseases th

Thanks to consanguineous marriages, lack of awareness about genetic disorders and general failure of the government’s outreach, 5-6 per cent of Indian babies are born with congenital deformities, much

Adding to the list of several lethal mutations of the swine flu virus, the Minnesota department of health (Mdh) in the United States recently zeroed in on a new strain variant, the H1N2V.

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Lack of awareness and dearth of facilities are responsible for the state being one among the top in occurrences of genetic disorders. “Over 80,000 children are born every year with different birth de