Germany moved Friday against an outbreak of bird flu close to the Polish border, slaughtering 1,400 ducks and geese on a farm at Markersdorf near the city of Goerlitz.

Patients in remote villages used to pay doctors and medical services with vegetables and farm animals. The practice still flourishes in this agricultural town. But this...

As the scandal over melamine-tainted milk products continued to be discussed, two canned goods which are said to have come from China tested positive for cadmium, a...

The government of Uganda is now developing a program to implement a nation-wide male circumcision exercise as part of the strategy to reduce HIV infection rates....

The global economic crisis is likely to cause an upsurge in suicides and mental illness as people struggle to cope with losing their homes or livelihoods, the World...

Scientists in Japan have identified four proteins in chicken legs which appear to be effective in controlling high blood pressure, a study has said.(Advertisement)In a...

One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday.The figures represent...

Given how opposition to legal abortion is almost entirely based on religious dogma, one might think that areas where belief in religious dogma is highest will be areas...

“These are scary times for sex writers,” said Tracy Clark-Flory in Salon. One publication after another has fired star columnists, including The Village...

Thirty six kids and youth were killed in more than six villages of Sitapur in UP due to a sudden spread of an unknown viral disease within the last 72 hours....

What magic do the beautiful have that most of us lack? Neuroscientists, psychologists and anthropologists have all taken a stab at deconstructing facial beauty.

Crystallized carbon has caused all kinds of trouble throughout human history, with the shiny rocks causing (and continuing to cause) bloodshed and strife by their high...

Men who suffer from premature ejaculation may be able to blame their genes, work suggests.

A US analysis of data on 53,567 men who have sex with other men found HIV rates were not significantly lower among those who were circumcised.

Last week, Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk and Mengniu Drink, which have labels written in Chinese character, were found to contain traces of the toxic industrial chemical....

With your body? Your weight? What to eat? What NOT to eat? So is the world around you! The “skinny bitch” era couldn’t be more dominant in its form, overriding...

Cow’s blood, pus, hormones, pesticides, and antibiotics plus heaps and heaps of cholesterol — these are just some of the things you can find in cow’s...

One German and two French scientists won the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for their discoveries of two viruses that cause severe human diseases, the...

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it has banned the import of more than 30 generic drugs made by Indian drug firm Ranbaxy.

In these times of trouble and turmoil, financial crisis and contentious presidential campaigns, it’s nice to know we can always find some humor among the news...