Melbourne surgeons have removed a woman's previously inoperable brain tumor, apparently curing her severe epilepsy by using a world-first computer scanning and surgery technique. Up until three weeks
China's fishing output was 6.73 million tons during the first half this year, 160,000 tons less than during the same period last year, according to a report from the Fisheries Bureau of the Ministry
Malaysian scientists have come up with important innovations which will benefit two of the country's biggest natural-resources industries-rubber and palm oil. The new methods will boost output and,
a 40-year old generic drug that costs just pennies per day could save the lives of tens of thousands of heart failure patients annually and reduce hospital expenditures by billions of dolars,
Malaysian researchers have claimed to have come up with a new jackfruit cultivar named 'Mastura' which will yield higher production of the
The Centre will insitute a high level investigation into the utilisation of $261 crore gas relief and rehabilitation fund, if the Madhya Pradesh government fails to five accounts of the
As developed nations fight environmental pollution caused by the effects of vehicle fumes,many developing countries continue to suffer from lack of basic transportation, particularly in rural
A London patient is the first peson in the world to undergo a life-saving operation to repair the body's main artery using keyhole surgery, Kenneth Hall, 73, a second world war veteran underwent an
South Korea's Ministry of Construction and Transportation (MOCT) yesterday announced a plan to overhaul its greenbelt policy for the first time since it was established 27 years ago. Minister Lee
More than 1.3 million soldiers and civilians in Central China's Hunan and Hubei provinces have been organized to combat the surging flood waters of the Yangtze River. In Hubei alone, located on
Thailand's Pollution Control Department's proposed tax on packaging materials to reduce waste has been opposed by the business sector and taxation officials because they said it would provide low
Medical experts in Pakistan are concerned about the rise in the number of cases of tuberculosis among children that cannot be treated with the standard drugs as the TB germs in their body are
A revolutionary engine that weighs only 100 pounds (45 kilograms) and has just three moving parts but is as powerful as a conventional V-8 motor, was unveiled in Los Angeles early this week. The
U.S. drug maker Merck and Co. has agreed to slash the prices of two AIDS drugs in Brazil, bowing to pressure from the government, which was poised to break the drugs' patents, the Health Ministry
The government is unlikely to accede to the demand of the pharmaceutical industry to include amendments in the patent law which allow for provisions enabling companies to undertake research on a drug
One of the results of the massive rehabilitation exercise undertaken by the State Government following the 1993 earthquake in Latur is a comprehensive multi-hazard disaster management plan for the
On July 20, five-year -old Pranav Khare, a Beta Thalessmia Major patient underwent a successful bone marrow transplant. And his parents did not have to go abroad and pay exorbitantly for it. The
Untreated hazardous chemicals and toxic effluents could well choke the Wazirpur industrial area if their unhindered discharge is not stopped immediately. The release of hazardous chemiclas from
When the fence starts eating the field, the fate of the crop can well be predicted, goes a Bundelkhandi saying. Several environmentalists in the state believe the analogy could apply to Ratnesh
Indo-American Hybrid Seeds, Bangalore, has come out successfully with tissue culture banana of Dwarf cavendish, Robusta, Nendran, Basrai, Grand-Naine, Williams, Poovan and Amruthapani. The company
