More than 30,000 nurses will go on strike on June 30 if the Government does not increase their salaries and allowances, their association warned yesterday.

A small U.K. study reports that as a result of changes in cabin pressure on commercial airplanes, oxygen levels drop to a degree that is potentially dangerous for people with heart and lung problems.

A new study shows that Alzheimer's disease may be slowed down by regular exercise.

Aging has long been recognized as the worst risk factor for chronic ailments like atherosclerosis, which clogs arteries and leads to heart attacks and stroke.

Pregnancy at an older age may see overwhelming and scary, but many of the above risks can be managed with good prenatal care.

Osteoporosis is a term that means porous bones. As individuals get older their bones begin to deteriorate and become more fragile.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have discovered how the membrane protein that allows us to sense cold works and how this protein becomes desensitized so that one no longer feels the cold. The study, published this week as an

Nearly three out of every four adults over age 50 use some kind of alternative medicine, such as acupuncture and herbal medicine, according to a new study. While previous research has been limited, this appears to be a higher rate

Researchers funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health, have found that requests from patients for medications have a "profound effect" on physicians prescribing for major depression and adjustment disorder.

Silver Spring, MD -- (NATURALWIRE) -- The supplement industry is certainly aware by now that a United States District Court ruled on April 13, 2005, that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to meet its burden of proof that

REV. AMOS Gibson of the City Temple International Church in Kumasi, has frowned on the merging phenomenon where the youth, particularly female teenagers, are craving to possess expensive things like mobile phones.

The Deputy Co-ordinating Director for Asante Akim North, Mr. Saaka Dramani, who is also the district's focal person on HIV/AIDS, has stated that the HIV/AIDS pandemic is increasing in the District.

Since the first HIV/Aids case was reported in Kenya in 1984, the disease has caused untold suffering to millions of people too poor to afford life-prolonging drugs.

Top National Aids Control Council (Nacc) officials paid themselves more than Sh37 million irregularly, an audit report says.

Clinical officers have clashed with a medical board over a crackdown on clinics.

The Government has set aside Sh3.9 billion for Aids programmes.

Parliament was yesterday told the National Aids Control Council (Nacc) has so far disbursed a total of Sh3.9 billion to various institutions and non- governmental organisations.

The Efficiency Monitoring Unit (EMU) wants the former director of the National Aids Control Council, Dr Margaret Gachara, surcharged for fraudulently receiving Sh26 million.

Nurses yesterday demanded a 700 per cent salary increase.

Millions of shillings earmarked for HIV/Aids sensitization programmes were lost to dubious organisations set up to specifically siphon the money, according to the Efficiency Monitoring Unit report.