Replacing plasma helps some MS patients
Replacing the blood plasma in multiple sclerosis patients suffering from acute attacks of the mysterious disease helped about 40 percent of them improve, a study released on Friday
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Itochut to largely drop modified soyabeans
Itochu Corp. from October will import almost all of the soyabeans used for making processed foods from U.S. suppliers on nongenetically modified crops, officials at the giant trading house said. The
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Africa counts devastating cost of AIDS
Experts gathered in the Zambian capital counted the economic, social and human cost of AIDS in Africa, hearing that the pandemic could wipe out all the gains of the past century. "Too much of Africa
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Furore in MCD over ad on garbage segregation
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi today witnessed heated scenes over an advertisement issued by the Delhi Government asking for proposals from non-government organisations for door-to door
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Plan to ban smoking in public places
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, on Tuesday said his Government was considering a proposal for banning smoking in public places. The Cabinet would meet shortly to consider the
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Wild ants cure rheumatism
The first medicine in the world made from wild ants to treat rheumatoid arthritis has been licensed by China's State Drug Administration, an official report said.The medicine developed by Dr Wu
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Ashwagandha, a gold mine for Indian pharmas, says CSIR study
The well-known Indian medicinal plant, Ashwagandha, (Withania Somnifera), could be a gold mine for different food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries, says an exhaustive volume on different
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'Pig heart doctors' all set to resume research
The controversial xenotransplant doctor, Mr Dhani Ram Baruah, who was arrested following his claim of having pulled off a sensational transplant of a pig heart of a human recipient in 1997, has
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Beware of "Fetal Rights"
Opponents of abortion rights in America have come up with yet another scheme to advance their agenda. Called the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act," the measure aims to chip away at women's
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Clearing the Mess
Had it not been for an alert and environmentally conscious judicioury, chances are that we would have literally heen wallowing in our own filth. Once again, the Supreme Court has intervened
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Activists push for Y2K nuclear pause
Environmentalists and arms control activists call it a modest proposal - a kind of year 2000 insurance policy for the world. Power down the 433 nuclear reactors world-wide. De-alert the 5,000 nuclear
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Polluting units asked to submit report on effluents
The government has asked the polluting industries to submit a report within a week on the steps they were planning to take to treat effluent in the Capital. At a high-level meeting on Saturday , the
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Sort out garbage before throwing it away
Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has issued a draft notification making it compulsory for all civic bodies to ensure that the garbage generated from households and commercial
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Grasim urged to pay for Mavoor clean-up
International NGO Greenpeace has called upon Grasim's viscose staple fibre factory at Mavoor in Kerala to recompense for environmental and health damage, holding that the corporate should be held
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Rajasthan bans public smoking
The Rajasthan government has decided to ban smoking at notified public places as well as public vehicles. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the state council of ministers
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Judge permits Washington to count vote on marijuana
A Federal judge ruled on Friday that the board of elections and ethics for the District of Columbia may count and announce the results of a referendum on the use of marijuana for medical purposes
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Water logging problem plagues farmers
The problem of water logging, soil salinity and stagnation in productivity are causing great concern among farmers in Hargana. They are not satisfied even with the assistance being provided by
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Our durable planet
The worst pollution does occur in poor countries. But it reflects a lack of democracy more than an excess of economic growth. Raw materials have not run out, and show no sign of doing so. Logically,
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Ministry pledges to strive for aid access
The Foreign Ministry in Thailand has pledged a more active role in securing better access to the US$2-billion Global Environmental Facility (GEF). Asda Jayanam, permanent representative to the
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Six more dengue cases detected
Six more cases of dengue have been reported from the Capital in the past week, taking the total number of people affected by the disease to 15. Thus , 13 cases have been detected in September, said