India's success in slashing HIV/AIDS infection rates by 50 per cent in the last decade masks a high rate of infection among homosexual and transgender people, experts say.

This anomaly was highlighte

A US doctor is being sued for amputating a truck driver's penis without his permission, a media report said on Tuesday.

The doctor has defended his actions claiming he saved the man's life.

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Government's efforts to stem brain drain in the country has yielded results with 1,264 doctors migrating to other countries in 2010 against 1,386 in 2009

"In 2010, 1,264 doctors migrated to other cou

Orissa on Saturday cancelled the leave of doctors working in three state-run medical colleges after a spurt in dengue cases in 11 of the state's 30 districts.

The three medical college-cum-hospitals,

Spices like turmeric and cinnamon are what you need to stave off the negative effects of a fat rich meal.

Researchers found that meals rich in these spices boosted antioxidant activity by 13 per cent

A doctor in China's Hubei province removed the stitches he had just sewn on the hand of a man as the patient could not afford the surgery.

Twenty-year-old Zeng said he injured his two fingers when he

Five patients have been paid £750,000 in compensation after they were left in agony and with permanent mobility problems following surgery by Indian-origin orthopaedic Manjit Bhamra.

Bhamra, 55, who

A nearly 80-year-old man in China has been diagnosed with HIV, with doctors saying he got infected due to 'frequent unprotected sex'.

The case is the latest to support experts' opinion that the HIV v

Six years after leprosy was declared officially eliminated in India, officials and doctors are warning that the disfiguring disease is spreading in poverty-stricken pockets of the country.

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Physicians recommend that some vaccines should be given to pre-teens to help make up for the loss of immunity as they grow up.

Vaccines for adolescents and teenagers? This may surprise many parents.