A new tablet is set to go under clinical trials this week. This tablet ‘polipill’ from Indian Drug Company Dr. Reddy, can reduce the risk of death due to heart attacks. It is a cheap drug to protect against heart disease and stroke. 

Doelf Bachmann, at the age of 38 became the first angioplasty patient in the world to undergo balloon angioplasty on September 16, 1977. He enjoys being the posterboy of angioplasty. He has visited the world as a living advertisement of the angioplasty. Now Bachmann visits Mumbai at the behest of the organizing committee of the International Conference of Coronary Artery Disease, which is also observing 20 years of angioplasty in India. Dr.

A bad news for people who have extra marital affairs. Scientists have found that an extra marital can cost not only your marriage but it can be fatal for you. The strain of juggling married life and a secret lover causes stress and tension for the cheating partner, which can lead to serious headache or migraine, which could cause a fatal aneurysm or ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain.

In last 24 hours, eight children died due to suspected water-borne diseases in the Murshidabad district, raising the toll to 25 in the last seven days. 

Hanoi  - A plunge in local milk consumption due to fears of melamine-tainted Chinese milk threatens to drive Vietnamese farmers out of the dairy business even though their milk is safe and clean, local officials and farmers said Monday.

"I will have to sell my cows if things do not change in a few weeks," said Nguyen Thi Hanh, a dairy farmer in the Hanoi suburb of Gia Lam.

Local media report dairy factories have ceased buying milk from farmers because they are unable to sell it.

Paris - French virologists Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, will always be associated with the discovery of the retrovirus that causes AIDS.

In 1982, Montagnier headed a team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, of which Barre-Sinoussi was a member, that was asked for assistance in establishing the possible viral cause of a mysterious new syndrome, AIDS.