Endangered US fish may not need more water - panel
A decision to protect endangered Oregon fish by holding back irrigation water from farmers last summer was not justified by scientific evidence, a panel of experts who advise the U.S. government
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Italy may have human case of mad cow disease
Italy's Health Ministry announced the country's first suspected case of the human form of mad cow disease. A ministry statement said the tentative diagnosis was made after tests both in Italy and
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Putting Mammograms to the test
Dr. Barnett Kramer has never shied away from the seemingly impossible clinical trial. When some people said the National Cancer Institute could never investigate the benefits of established screening
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Air pollution plagues winter olympics site
The host site of the 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, is in the midst of an air inversion that traps air pollution in the region's valleys. The Sierra Club called on Utah drivers to take transit
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New power plant could threaten Kentucky park
A planned coal burning power plant near Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky could release thousands of tons of haze and smog forming pollutants each year. The state of Kentucky has issued a draft
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Scientists decoding tree genome
Scientists have launched an international effort to sequence the genomes of valuable tree species. Cottonwoods, hybrid poplars and aspens could play a role in improving the environment, displacing
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Farmland vanishes under floods
There could be a further threat of floods in England and Wales, the environment agency warned as 33 alerts and 105 flood watches remained in place at 6pm. Although the worst of the weather has passed
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Salt Lake's "Green Games" image comes under attack
Salt Lake City won the right to stage the Winter Olympics partly because of the pristine beauty of the Rocky Mountains and organisers say the Games will provide an environmental showcase to the
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Panel takes Hippocratic oath further
In a sweeping global statement published in two medical journals, a committee of doctors from the USA and Europe has attempted to update the 2,500-year-old Hippocratic oath.The Hippocratic oath
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Bush would cut EPA budget to $7.7 bln in 2003
The Bush administration proposed reducing the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) budget by about 4 percent to $7.7 billion in fiscal 2003, but pledged no cuts in enforcement of controversial
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Unhealthy influence
There is a danger that WHO's new partnership with drug companies will skew its health policies Tobacco companies had penetrated the innermost sanctums of the World Health Organisation. Philip
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State tops in AIDS cases, ranks low on condom use
Governor Dr. C Rangarajan speaking at a seminar on ' Prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in Andhra Pradesh ' said that Andhra Pradesh topped the list of states contributing to the AIDS pool in the
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Govt to focus on men for checking AIDS
For the first time the Delhi government has shifted its attention from women to men in an attempt to curb the spread of AIDS. In the ongoing AIDS awareness campaign the government has devised means
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Royals back Antarctic restoration project
A unique project to restore the frozen huts of some of Antarctica's earliest explorers is about to get under way with royal backing. Britain's Princess Anne arrived in New Zealand and files to the
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Soft loan for affluent treatment plants
The financial institutions should provide soft loan to industrial units for setting up affluent treatment plants in industrial areas for complying with environment protection norms, the chairman of
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A bold move on AIDS in South Africa
But when Lionel Mtshali, who runs the provincial governmentin Urabn(South Africa), shipped out a press release, the political establishment shook. He said he was going to defy the national government
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Research in medical sciences stressed: AKU seminar on typhoid
The Pakistan minister for Science and Technology, Prof Atta-ur-Rehman reiterated the need for expanding research and knowledge base in the country , saying that it was about time that ambitious
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Strategy to check rise in TB cases
An effective strategy has been evolved to check an alarming increase in tuberculosis cases across the Sheikhupura district(Pakistan). This was stated in a meeting with Executive District Officer
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Survey on skin disease continues
A team of doctors that is conducting survey on the outbreak of a skin disease leishmanisis in Larkana district in Pakistan visited village Joonani Bangla near Warah. Dr Qaid, the emergency medical
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25pc people suffer from depression
One in every four people, or 25 per cent of the population, develop one or more mental or behavioural disorders at some stage in life, both in developed and developing countries. These disorders can