Ignorance and fear surrounding HIV are among the many challenges that will face Burma’s new government in overhauling a neglected health system.
Over one in six of India’s medical schools have been accused of cheating, while about 45 percent of those practicing medicine have no formal training.
Blood samples have been sent to India for tests after a 22-year-old man arrived on Tuesday night from Guinea suffering with a fever and malaise.
Is there real science in the spiritualism of meditation? Elizabeth Blackburn, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist in the United States, thinks so.
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