AP seeks funds to fight malaria
Andhra Pradesh along with three other States which account for 60 per cent of total malarial deaths in the country have decided to put pressure jointly on the Centre for getting 100 per cent funding for anti-malarial operations.
Alarm over foot-and-mouth disease isolates rural Britain
Large areas of rural Britain were effectively quarantined over the weekend as the government tried to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, a highly contagious virus that can infect livestock and wild animals.
Chure hill conservation project begins
The Western Terai Chure Hills Conservation programme has been launched with a view to conserve the area with a view to conserve the area which is an important habitat of tigers, rhinos and elephants with joint initiative of the Department of Forests and World Wildlife Nepal Programme.
Hope for heart patients
Melbourne researchers hope to use the human hormones estrogen and progesterone to improve the survival rate of heart attack patients. There is anecdotal evidence that these hormones improve patients' moods. Researchers at the Baker Medical Research Institute plan to test the individual and combined effects of the hormones in human …
NACO sitting on 1999 HIV survey results
NACO, which recently raised a finger at a Swiss NGO working for AIDS patients in Rajasthan calling its figures "skewed", is sitting on its own figures for HIV incidence in the country for 1999. The sentinel survey conducted in 1999 was the second one after NACO declared it the only …
Siliguri toll 35
Officials have admitted for the first time today that the mystery disease actually surfaced for the first time in the first week of this month.The present spell of attacks only resumed on 17 February after a week of dormancy. This admission pushes up the total death toll to 35, with …
'Converted' buses fail the test'
The only two buses which were converted by the private bus contractors to CNG have been bought back by Nugas Technologies Ltd, the lone company in charge of the conversions in Delhi. The buses are said to have performed badly.
Baby, it's you! and you, and you
Renegade scientists say they are ready to start applying the technology of cloning to human beings. At this moment the research which is proceeding underground, unaccountable, poses a real threat. The risk lies not just with potential babies born deformed, as many animal clones are; not just with desperate couples …
MP pollution board chief in Lokayukta net hangs on to post
IT has been four days since V.K Jain, chairperson of the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB), was arrested by the state Lokayukta. Yet, the eco-friendly MP government can't seem to get itself to take action against Jain, accused of aiding the cause of polluting industries. Jain is still sitting …
Slow govt action blamed for Siliguri deaths
Doctors at the School of Tropical Medicine were not asked to deal with the Siliguri incident till recently, in-house doctors alleged on Sunday.