SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Yonhap) -- The government on Friday unveiled a financial support
program to help elderly receive early diagnosis and treatment of dementia,

London, Sept 19 (PTI) People who regularly use paracetamol are nearly three times
more likely to develop asthma, a research has suggested.

London, Sept 19 (PTI) A global study has been launched to demystify death, with an
examination of near-death experiences in cardiac arrest patients.

SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Yonhap) -- The number of South Koreans afflicted with dementia
jumped 2.4 times in the last five years due largely to an increase in life

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PENANG (Malaysia), Sept 18 (Bernama) -- A research team from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) has discovered eight prehistoric human skeletons, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, in Gua Kain

Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Health has ordered that all candies found to contain impure powdered calcium carbonate (CaCO3) must be destroyed.

TOKYO, Sept. 18 Kyodo - Japan may allow the manufacture and sale of thalidomide as a treatment for blood cancer after the drug caused severe birth defects and was banned in the

Makkah, September 16, SPA -- Under the patronage of Prince Khalid
Al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Makkah Region, the Makkah

The Senate has blocked the Rudd government's plan to scrap the Medicare dental scheme for the chronically ill.