The cholesterol pill Vytorin can not achieve its main objective to reduce heart diseases risks according to data released on Monday. Following this the shares of both Merck & Co Inc and Schering-Plough Corp fell down sharply. The use of drug declined as drug was not fount too reliable to cure arterial plaque.

There had been countless efforts by the scientists to find a cure for HIV (Human Immunodeficiency virus), which imposes a great threat to the mankind. Recently, an experimental vaccine, which was supposed to be tried in human beings to see its effectiveness against the HIV virus in US, was cancelled by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday.

Malaria, caused by mosquito bites infect around 500 million people each year out of which one million die because of the lack of access to the medicines.

Breast –feeding is beneficial for mother and her child. It strengthens the mother-child bond.

A recent report published in the British Journal of Cancer, has reveled the fact that obese women, who carry extra weight around their stomach, are 70 per cent more likely to develop pancreatic can