World Health Organisation's Director General Margaret Chan has sought to send some conciliatory signals to the drug indu

The much vaunted climate change conference has come to an end at Bali, Indonesia, on an almost anticlimactic note.

Gurgaon based Kidney racketeer, Dr. Amit Kumar was reportedly arrested by Nepali Police today (Feb 07 2008). The Doctor

Laura Moon, 18, from Whinmoor in Leeds, has four kidneys. All of them are functional and growing naturally. She is wi

The first frozen oocyte pregnancy in India has been reported from the Chennai-based GG hospital Fertility Research Ce

British scientists claim to have developed a drug with the potential to 'vaccinate' those with a family history of bre

In a breakthrough study, researchers in the US have identified all the 1,166 proteins in human saliva, a move which

The Nobel Prize for medicine this year has been awarded to three Europeans, Luc Montagnier, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi a

The 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine has been announced! It has been awarded to researchers Elizabeth Blackburn , her st

It has happened sooner than expected. Scientists have managed to synthesize 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modi

Can urine be used to produce energy without causing pollution. The team of researchers from Bristol certainly feel this

It may have come a bit too late, but a very deserving Robert Edwards has finally been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medi

The world-famous god man and Spiritual leader Sri Sathya Sai Baba passed away at his Sathya Sai super specialty hospita

Finally, after many a debate and discussion, the proposed amendments to the Transplantation of Human Organs Act will be

Patent holder and pharma major Gilead, announced voluntary licences with seven generic drug manufacturers in India to s

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 has been awarded with one half given to John O'Keefe and the other half

In a major policy decision the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the USA has lifted the ban on gay and bisexual men

India has registered nearly 4 million new cases in one day. At this point of time the Union Health Ministry has is

Japan has reported an avian flu outbreak at a poultry farm in Kagawa prefecture, leading to the culling of thousands of chickens. Minister of

Bird flu outbreak in Rajasthan: 140 more crows have died in six districts of the state, stated officials. Of these, 35 crows died in Sawai Madhopur,

In Madhya Pradesh, the bird flu spread is increasing rapidly and found to be the cause of the death of crows in 13 districts in the state till now. The

Bird flu or avian influenza virus does not infect people as the virus is heat liable, degraded and killed when subjected to high temperature, said health experts.

In Iraq's Salahudin province, a bird flu outbreak has been reported, said authorities. Health authorities have taken all protective measures to contain the spread of the virus.

Bird flu is posing a major threat not only to the birds but also to the poultry business in Madhya Pradesh, India. Overall, bird flu has spread to 75 percent of the districts in the state.

Bird flu outbreak has been confirmed in 13 states so far of which Avian Influenza has been reported in poultry birds from nine states while in wild birds from 12 states, said sources.

In Sweden's Kalmar county after a bird flu outbreak was reported at a poultry farm, authorities have planned to cull some 1.3 million chickens, revealed sources.

H5N8 - an avian influenza, for the first time, is found to cause human infection that is detected in the workers exposed to bird flocks, as per i Russian

About 28 Ebola virus cases have been reported, of which 11 people have died so far in the African countries of Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the

In China's Jiangsu province, a human infection with the H10N3 strain of avian influenza has been detected, said the National Health Commission (NHC).

In a poultry farm in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, bird flu cases were detected, and necessary measures have been taken to curb the spread of the disease, a health official said.

China's Sichuan province reports one 55-year old human case of H5N6 bird flu. The man has been hospitalized in Bazhong city after developing fever and

At Koorachundu in Kerala's Kozhikode district bird flu has been reported, revealed official sources. Around 300 poultry birds at the farm was reported to have died on Tuesday.

H5N1 virus infection led to the death of a 11-year-old boy at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi on Tuesday. The medical

In China, three people have tested positive for H5N6 bird flu. The Guangdong Provincial Health Commission, in a statement on Thursday said that a 52-year-old

Across the United Kingdom, an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) has been declared, legally requiring bird keepers to "take a range of biosecurity precautions.

In South Korea suspected bird flu cases at a local farm have been detected. The suspected cases of the avian influenza were discovered at an

At a duck farm in South Korea, another suspected case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been reported. According to the ministry, the latest

In the South West of England, a person has contracted avian influenza. Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is a type of influenza that spreads among birds.

A new case of highly pathogenic avian influenza was reported at a duck farm in South Korea, as revealed by sources. The latest case was reported

Two new human cases of bird flu have been detected in China. The Hong Kong Health department, in a statement this week, said two people in mainland China

In India, bird flu has resurfaced with cases from Maharashtra's Thane and Palghar regions. However, an expert said that the disease is unlikely to spread majorly in the country.

The first known human case of H5 bird flu in a person has been reported in Colorado, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced. The

In the United States, four red baby foxes died due to the devastating bird flu H5N1 detected in wild mammals. The Michigan Department of Natural

In southern Israel, the pathogenic bird flu has been detected in two turkey farms, said Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. h2 Bird Flu

A 53-year-old woman from Jiangsu province (China) has contracted bird flu, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The woman's symptoms began

First mortality case linked to medlinkavian influenza/medlink A (H3N8) virus has been reported by China, revealed the World Health Organisation. China,

Is medlinkbird flu/medlink the next human outbreak? New mutations in the medlinkavian influenza virus/medlink H5N1 infected a man in Chile recently.

After the detection of several medlinkavian flu/medlink cases, a six-month health emergency has been declared by the Brazilian government. While

H5N1 avian influenza virus (medlinkbird flu/medlink) has gained new genes and increased virulence as it spread west, revealed scientists (!--ref1--).

A variant of avian flu virus, commonly found in Chinese poultry farms, is undergoing mutations that raise concerns about potential human transmission,