Clean banks for funds flow
The banks have been cleared for the funds from the Asian Development Bank and Hudco to flow and make Calcutta's waterways navigate once more. Mayor Subrata Mukerjee said that the clean up along
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3 gene variations may have link to heart attack
By testing thousands of patients for minor genetic variations in a pool of more than 70 candidate genes, Japanese researchers have found three gene variations -one in men and two in women - that seem
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U.S. to offer smallpox shots soon
President George W. Bush intends to announce a plan to start vaccinating military personnel and health care and emergency-response workers against smallpox within weeks and to offer immunization to
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Low birthrate challenges Europe's future
No one is entirely sure why so many women in this quaint, cobblestoned city south of Berlin stopped having babies 10 years ago. But it does not take a degree in sociology to see the effects of the
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Japan pledges $9.6m for anti-polio drive: Agreement signed with Unicef
Japan will provide $9.6 million through the United Nations Children's Fund in humanitarian assistance to support Pakistan's ongoing polio eradication campaign for the year 2003. Ambassador of Japan,
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City govt told to ensure sale of hygienic meat
Taking cognizance of a complaint by an NGO about the sale of unhygienic meat the Sindh Ombudsman held a meeting with Town Nazims of Karachi (Pakistan). The Ombudsman, Justice Haziqul Khairi, called
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Green tea may protect against heart attack
New research from Japan suggests that drinking green tea every day may be good for the heart. Although people in the study who drank one or more cups of green tea were no less likely to have artery
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'88 gas victims doubt Iraq arms report to the UN
On March 16, 1988, waves of Iraqi warplanes dropped gas canisters in this Kurdish village, bathing neighborhoods in what is believed to have been a misty cocktail of nerve and blister agents - sarin,
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Smallpox vaccine re-launched in US
Smallpox vaccinations are beginning anew, three decades after the program was halted, as President George W. Bush said the threat of a bio-terror attack with the virus is real though not imminent. Mr
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Sex selection clinics target UK Indians
Sex selection clinics in London, Birmingham and Glasgow that encourage Indian couples to seek boy children rather than girls have come under fire from an independent watchdog that campaigns for
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Meet on Traditional medicines in Delhi today
In a bid to popularise India's traditional medicine systems on a global scale, a one-day international conference on medicinal plants and ayurveda will be held at The India International Centre on
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Bypassing heart surgeon, robot takes India to medical frontier
The patient's heart is still beating, his chest is closed, and there is no surgeon hunched over the operating table. Yet, as the monitors outside the sterile operating theatre
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Pollution to be controlled at all costs: PCB
In order to maintain hygienically clean and sound ecological environment, several industrial units involved in causing air pollution beyond the permissible limits have been booked by Pollution
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Superstition takes toll, 8 kids die
: An eerie silence pervades the village of Dariyapur at Bihta in Bihar. Superstition and a reluctance to seek medical attention has led to the death of eight children in this village of Musahars
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Promising cure for malaria
German scientists working in the western African State of Gabon say a new treatment for malaria is yielding promising results. The drug, fosmidomycin, was administered to three small groups of
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Here comes a sea of therapy
Sea drugs are making the newest waves in supermedicine. From the oft recommended therapeutic waters for recuperation from both mental and physical ills, the sea and its deep end is now opening up for
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Diabetes: Indians Born With It?
Diabetes is increasingly becoming a major health problem in India. And scientists now say that Indians are vulnerable to the disease right from childhood. This conclusion is based on the study of
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Saharanpur deaths: Virus not to blame?
Figures released by the Union Health Ministry say that of the 357 children diagnosed with illnesses, 35 were suspected to have Japanese encephalitis. Some 75 children have already died as a result of
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Health services reviewed on HC order
A four member team led by Director, Health Services Union Territory, Chandigarh, Dr. C.P. Bansal visited emergency wards run by the state Health Department and at the local medical college. The team
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Mysterious disease spreads
A mysterious disease, which has claimed lives of eight children at Dariapur village of Bihta subdivision, has reportedly spread to neighboring Naubatpur block with at least six children admitted to