WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Yeast and roundworms may give research into birth defects a boost. An enzyme needed to make healthy reproductive cells turns out to be the same in both, and probably helps prevent birth defects in humans as well. Before human sperm and eggs are formed, the chromosomes in the parental cell …
BRITISH doctors have discovered new cases of a sleeping disease which swept the world in the 1920s but was thought - till now - to have died out equally mysteriously. Encephalitis Lethargica affected five million people and killed over a million. Thousands were left in a seemingly- permanent and bizarre …
Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (SKB) yesterday introduced the world's first Hepatitis (A) vaccine in India. Called "harvix", it is claimed to offer long time protection against the viral infection which causes inflammation of the liver.
The Yangtze River, which runs through China's several nonferrous metal rich areas, has not suffered any metal pollution, and scientists recently discovered that the river can clean itself up. Metal pollution accidents have been reported on tributaries along the lower reaches of the Yangtze in Hunan, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, …
Testing for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) should be a routine part of the prenatal care, according to a new report from a committee of the Institute of Medicine. Health care providers should notify women that HIV testing is part of the usual array of prenatal tests and women should …
A sweet pill to swallow : New studies show the placebo effect at work from head to toe in different cultures around the world. Using new techniques of brain imagery, they are uncovering a host of biological mechanisms that can turn a thought, belief or desire into an agent of …
Millions of Asian children are malnourished and face starvation as the regional economic crisis deepens, an official with the United Nations Children's Fund Kul Gautam said. "We estimate that about half the children under 3 are malnourished in Indonesia and a rising proportion are getting really malnourished."
A NASA-Stanford University team is in the preliminary stages of developing a smart probe that can be used for breast cancer detection and analysis. The probe is designed to 'see' a lump; determine by its features if it is cancerous; and then quickly predict how the disease may progress.
Studying the atmospheres of other planets has produced many surprises. It could even help in comprehending that of the Earth. Take for example, the latest image of Neptune, presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's division of planetary science this month. The weather on Neptune is, in the …
NASA program managers set Oct 29 as the official launch date for the STS-95 mission aboard the Shuttle Discovery, a scheduled nine day flight in which the seven astronauts will conduct more than eighty scientific experiments investigating mysteries that span the realm from the inner universe of the human body …
On the basis of a laboratory report, the Delhi government's Prevention of food Adulteration (PFA) department has initiated prosecution against the makers of Onjus, the famous brand of orange juice. The report indicates that the Mumbai-based Enkay Texofood industries Ltd has been using artificial colours far in excess of the …
Early birds who rise at sun-up, and smugly suspect that everyone could if they had enought drive, may be ignoring genetic differences decreed by nature, The first findings to link genes with the human body clock are reported in a new study by Emmanuel Mignot, a sleep expert at Standford …
A '"software scalpel" combined with clear, accurate, three dimensional images of the human head, is helping doctors practice reconstructive surgery and visualize the outcome more accurately. Using the new approach, a physician wearing 3-D glasses can see an image of a patient's head from all angles on a computer monitor, …
An Indian American neurologist has filed an application with the international patent office in Geneva to register a recumbent virus vaccine he designed which he believes will eradicate the HIV virus long before it becomes full-blown AIDS. Known as Contre-Vir and developed by Mr Sateesh Apte, who heads his own …
Three US scientists whose discoveries led to the use of the Viagra anti-impotence drug won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Robert Furchgott, Ferid Murad and Louis Ignarro were awarded the 7.6 million Swedish crown prize jointly for their discoveries about the role of nitric oxide-long considered just an air …
Now, there's evidence that vitamin E is an effective weapon against heart disease. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they have shown that vitamin E protects mice against atherosclerosis, the artery-clogging condition that leads to heart attacks. The mice were genetically engineered to have high cholesterol and develop artherosclerosis.
Health food shops regularly give advice about potentially serious disease that is at best inconsistent and at worst may be dangerous, says a study published by the Royal College of Physicians.
Researchers at Central Food Investigation Centre (CFIC), Kathmandu warn attractive sweets, vegetables and other food products might cost you your health. Reason: Farmers spray pesticides to save vegetables from decaying and use colours to make food products bright. According to researchers at CFIC, powdered brick is mixed in chilli powder, …
Gastro-enterities has so far claimed 267 lives in the flood-affected Malda district, while 35 people have died from snakebite. Altogether 15,881 people have been affected by gastro-enterities in the district.
The city, thanks to the scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, is an important contributor to research on the sun and its magnetic field. And in honour of its contribution, the city will host the second international five-day workshop on the sun's polarisation which will begin on October 12.
