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.

One of the top brands in organic teas and supplements market, Organic India, is now ready to flavor Indian consumer’s cup with new and enriched flavors of Tulsi.

A recent study has shown that hypnosis can help in reducing hot flashes among breast cancer survivors. Hot flashes are a significant problem for many breast cancer survivors. This study was done by Dr. Gary Elkins of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and his team.