Family planning comes unstuck in UP
Given the glaring economic disparties and strong social factors, all government efforts at population control seem to be doomed to a grandiose failure in
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Plan to protect workplaces from AIDS
Union health ministry, with the active participatonof the Union labour ministry, has formulated an extensive plan to protect workplaces from
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US okays new flu vaccines
Federal helath officials in the US have said that they were changing two of the three strains in this winter's influenza vaccine and lowering the age for which a flu shot is
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Herbal medicine craze 'endangers' wild plants
Western consumers' growing passion for herbal medicine is threatening the survival of some of the most valuable wild plants, scientists and conservationists told a UN gathering in
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Farmers of merged villages perplexed
Farmers and inhabitants of the 36 freshly merged villages in the Shimla Municipal Corporation are anxious and distraught these days regarding their rights and concessions in their own agricultural
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Mild heart troubles linked to diet drugs
Another study links the diet drugs Redux and fenphen to heart-valve problems but also indicates the problems are rarely serious. Dieters who took the drugs for more than three months were more than
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New devices for early detection of cancer
Researchers at the massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claim to have developed a new class of devices that can detect and image certain types of cancer before they are visible. The method is
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Measuring human drug metablism
A novel medical technology that ganges how well the human body breaks down drugs has been developed by the Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at the University of Dundee, Scotland, and is attracting
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India's expertise can cure Britain's medical woes
On Sunday morning, as the hypochondriacs in Britain were learning to live with the radiation hazards of the leaking nuclear plants and mobile telephones, and the ailing National Health Service (NHS),
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Drugs as effective as surgery for BP
Surgery that uses an inflatable balloon to reopen an artery leading to the kidney is no more effective for relieving high blood pressure than drugs, according to a dutch study published in New
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Monsanto assembles genetic map of rice
Monsanto, a leader in genetic engineering , has announced compiling a rough draft of the entire genetic map of the rice plant. It plaedged to share its data with an international consortium that was
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Water riots break out in Saurashtra
Helpless drought-hit districts of Gujarat have little choice other than to pray for the success of the administration's desperate attempts to strike new sources of drinking water. Officials said that
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Magnetic solution for malaria
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) report that treatment through oscillating magnetic fields(OMF) could prove revolutionary in controlloing malaria, especially the deadly cerebral
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Pandas learn to love with at little Viagra push
Chinese veterinarians are to prescribe Viagra for their lethargic pandas to help save the species from extinction, after traditional Chinese herbal medicine failed to lift the animals libido,
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NTPC commissions waste treatment plant
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has commissioned the first effluent treatment plant in Orissa recently to arrest surface water pollution and prevent discharge of coal ash effluent into the
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Tele-medicine centre for Andhra vilalge
Arangonda, a tiny vilalge 14 kms off Chitoor, will record a revolution in the country's healthcare by becoming the first telemedicine centre in the
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Tiger population in Manas declining
The recent tiger census carried out by the Manas Tiger Project authority in Manas National Park (MNP) revealed that tiger population in the MNP is decreasing and it is estimated to be less than 70,
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TN mill awarded for making paper without cutting trees
This summer some school students in Tamil Nadu are doing their homework in 'eco-friendly' notebooks that were not made by cutting down trees. This has been made possible by the Tamil Nadu Newsprint
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Endangered peacocks
Mystery shrouds the death of nationalbird peacock in the forests of Hoogly district in West Bengal. While the deaths have baffled the local residents, the attitude of the government has been
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$ 22 m sewerage plan for city soon
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) is likely to take up a 22-million dollar North Dhaka Sewerage Project with the assistance of Japan Government from June next to bring the northern