MCH takes steps to prevent GE outbreak
With as many as 16 cases of gastro-enteritis being reported last week in the city of Hyderabad, the civic authorities have swung into
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Probe into shady timber deals begins
The high level committees formed recently to investigate into the shady timber deals in the eastern and western parts of Nepal appear to have begun their works.
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Power lines linked to leukaemia in children
A UK study has concluded that intense and prolonged exposures to magnetic fields can increase the risk of leukaemia in children. The study by the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB),
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AIDS vaccine human trials in April
Brazil will begin trials of AIDS vaccines on 40 volunteers in April as part of a global programme. Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro aim to have the preliminary results by the
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Green-backed NZ govt redfaced over African timber
Opposition MPs accused the Green-supported New Zealand government yesterday of using timber from endangered African rainforests in a NZ$40 million ($17 million) refurbishment of its own offices.
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Kenyan High Court blocks forest destruction
A Kenyan High Court on Thursday granted local environmentalists an injunction to prevent authorities allowing forests to be cleared, a television station reported. "The forests that were to be
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Sea intrudes 30 kilometres inside Thatta coastal areas
People have started migrating from the coastal areas as the sea has intruded 30 kilometres inside affecting the vast area in Thatta, southern district of Sindh. Standing crops on thousands of acres
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Scientists unravel how HIV infects
In a breakthrough that could aid the development of an AIDS vaccine, US researchers have discovered one of the ways HIV infects the body, the latest issue of the Science magazine reports. For HIV to
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New project to get rid of waste
A Rs 210 crore World Bank-assisted project for garbage and effluents disposal in Chennai will be implemented from January 1999, Tamil Nadu pollution control minister N.K.K. Periyasamy told the state
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Kentucky farmers take potshot at US drug law
A group of Kentucky farmers, seeking to grow industrial hemp but in effect prohibited by US drug laws, marched into court, claiming that the US Drug Enforcement Agency is out of
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Link to ailments under study
Swedish researchers said they had found an apparent link between using mobile telephones and fatigue, headaches and tingling and heat sensations in the ear and
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The latest from the labs
Human skin : The FDA is about to approve commercial use of living tissue grown by two biotech outfits. Engineered skin will bring relief to the 4 million people who suffer from chronic skin ulcers
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Forest department is doing little to save Mahabaleshwar's tree cover
The efforts of the Mumbai high court and environmentalists to curb deforestation in the ecologically sensitive Mahabaleshwar-panchgani plateau are meeting with little success. This is because the
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Public, private sectors to fund clean-up
An agreement was reached among officials from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the construction sector and other industries to establish a fund worth 400 million yen by this fall to payfor the
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Plans to combat drought in J&K
Contingency plans are being formulated for the Kashmir valley and Jammu region to meet the situation arising out of the continuance of a dry spell threatening the ensuing kharif crop in the state.The
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Tea peps up antibiotics
A cup of tea may be all the protection we need against bugs that have become resistant to antibiotics. Scientists at Cambridge University who are investigating a bacterium called methicillin
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Chinese baby makes medical history
A 12-day-old Hong Kong baby has entered the annals of medical history by becoming the world's youngest patient to undergo a keyhole surgery in his large intestine.The boy was suffering from total
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Walking crane to help at coal mines
A team of Australian scientists are developing a computerised walking crane, or "dragline", that is expected to be the largest industrial robot in the world. The 75m tall robot is designed to carry
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First satellite clinic at Apollo
Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma on Saturday inaugurated the first satellite clinic of Indraprastha Apollo Hospital
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Cell-culture change boosts artificial liver
A research group from Kyushu University said it has developed a high performance artificial liver for treatment of fulminant hepatic failure, where patients fall into a coma due to a sudden severe