With a Mumbai hospital reporting the first case of total drug resistant (TDR) tuberculosis (TB) in the country, the health ministry on Tuesday sent a team to Mumbai to ascertain facts about the new de

Some two lakh residents in Shandong province in eastern China were forced to take drugs as part of a medical experiment for gastric disorders, an Internet blogger has alleged, prompting a local offici

Inquest to have a high IQ level progeny, couple offer Rs20k for IITian sperm.

Desirous of having high IQ level progeny, a city-based couple have placed an online advertisement seeking a sperm donor p

Denied admission by two government hospitals, a woman died on Friday after giving birth to twins on the pavement, bringing the state-run medical setup under the scanner yet again for alleged negligenc

About 1,000 South American women plan to sue French firm PIP over the potentially faulty breast implants the company supplied to about 300,000 women across the world, their lawyer said on Tuesday.

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Levels of under-nutrition in the country were 'unacceptably high' despite impressive GDP growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday and added that the problem of malnutrition was a 'nationa

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday released the HUNGaMA (Hunger and Malnutrition) survey report 2011. The report covered more than 73,000 households in 112 districts across nine states and more

Highlighting that 42 per cent children were underweight in a country witnessing high growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today described it as a national shame and said the government could not rely

The family members of the patient, in whose stomach the doctors at the Muslim Maternity Hospital in Chaderghat had left a towel during a Caesarean section, now want to register a complaint of negligen

A man left unable to walk by a tumour on his right leg that weighs more than the rest of his body went under the knife in Vietnam on Thursday to have the growth removed, hospital officials said.

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