Higher risks for children exposed to tobacco smoke
Children exposed to environmental tobacco smoke have a signficantly greater risk of dying of sudden infant death syndrome. This could either be due to the their mother's smoking during pregnancy, or
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Sand storm
Removing sand from river beds is good business. A lorry full of sand can bring in Rs 4,000 . But it is also bad ecology. In Karur district, Tamil Nadu, sand mining from the Cauvery bed has affected
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CSR guarantees dump safety
Corporate giant CSR says it will close its proposed waste dump planned for Werribee if the site is even found to be unsafe. The company undertook to give a written gurantee to the Premier Mr. Jeff
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Central China city builds agriculture project with WB loans
Fuyang, an agriculture oriented city in east China's Anhui Province, has completed a World Bank credited project on improving agricultural facilities. Under the project, 140,000 ha. of medium and
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Innovations
Scientists at Emory University's Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta have discovered a neuro-transmitter in the brain that helps control food intake and seems partially responsible for the
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Shark's fin soup sparks row in Hong Kong
International conservation group WildAid have drafted in Hong Kong movie star Tony Leung to back their campaign to encourage people to shun the traditional Chinese delicacy of shark's fin soup. The
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Rocked by quake
An earthquake of moderate intensity, measuring 5.1 on the Richter Scale, rocked the car Nicobar island in the Andamans early this morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said here.
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First FM case in France
France confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth disease today, the first in continental Europe since the infection broke out in Britain last month. The French Farm Ministry said in a statement that tests
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Foot and mouth scare hits U.K. tourism
As the foot and mouth disease continues to rage across Britain, it is beginning to hit countryside tourism which is a billion-pound industry and the only means of support for hundreds of small
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Children revaccinated against polio
A suspected case of polio in a seven year old child has sent health authorities scurrying to re-vaccinate hundreds of children in the village of Dainia in eastern
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Foot-and-Mouth's harsh approach
Western European countries have chosen to deal with foot-and-mouth disease largely by slaughter and cremation during rare outbreaks rather than by inoculating animals against it, as have many other
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Australia bars unloading UK cargo for disease fear
Australian quarantine officials refused to allow a Norwegian-registered vessel to unload a cargo of second-hand mining machinery from Britain heavily contaminated with dirt because of foot and mouth
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Glaxo brings Zyban to smoke out addiction
Glaxo India is setting great store by Zyban, a pill to help quit smoking which will hit the shelves in May. The company is gearing up for a high-profile launch of the drug backed by a social campaign
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Killer diseases alarmingly high in SE Asia
Out of the 36 million HIV/AIDS infected people in the world, 6 million are from South-East Asian countries. Likewise, 40 per cent cases of Tuberculosis, 25 million cases of malaria and 20 thousand
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Half of Calcutta prone to heart ailments
Nearly half of Calcutta's population runs the risk of developing cardio-vascular diseases due to high carbonate content in drinking water, according to a
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Repositioning the WHO
The World Health Organisation is about to be given a much-needed kick in the backside : a
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- Giving a new hope
The Delhi-based Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute has introduced a state-of-the-art radiotherapy treatment to cure cancer of the pancreas .
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El Nino wreaks havoc on Peru's wildlife
Marine mammals and seabirds on the coast of Peru, including endangered penguin species, were devastated in the now-fading El
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EU's Byrne sees alternative to permanent MBM ban
A permanent European Union-wide ban on meat and bone meal, blamed for the spread of mad cow disease, may not be needed if safeguards are properly enforced, EU Health Commissioner David Byrne said on
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Without 'barefoot doctors,' China's rural families suffer
Huge numbers of China's 800 million rural residents are in a medical free fall, as the once-vaunted system of "barefoot doctors" and free rural clinics has disintegrated over the last decade, a side