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 …
PARTICLE physics is a peculiar field. The theoretical consistency of various models predicts the existence of several particles which have to exist to make the theory work. Some of them can be seen, but some remain elusive. Magnetic monopoles (a single electric charge having a spherically symmetrical field) belong to …
ONE CHILD in three is not registered at birth, leaving them without proof of identity or age that may deny them education, healthcare and even nationality, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The UNICEF says that a birth certificate is required for vaccination in at least 20 countries …
ANTHRAX, a deadly disease, is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. In humans, infection usually affects the skin, causing development of a pustule, or the lungs, causing Woolsorters' disease, a kind of pneumonia. In animals, especially sheep and cattle, it takes the form of fatal acute septicaemia (poisoning of blood …
ALL life depends on the exchange of signals among cells. From important events such as conception, to sensations such as itching, everything depends on signals exchanged within your body. It has been known for long that calcium is a common intermediate in many signalling processes in living systems. When a …
Poor maintenance, municipal neglect, massive deforestation of thehills and riverbanks and out-of-control development in the southern hills of Central Valley rapidly growing community have all taken their toll on resources and infrastructure. The Escaz
Minister : Health and family welfare minister Dalit Ezhilmalai said that the national draft policy on HIV/AIDS prevention and cure has been finalised. The Drugs and Cosmetic Act and Rules is being revised to strengthen the legal framework for licencing of blood banks in the country.
Dying during or just after a bypass operation happens more often to women than men, and no one knows why. "Finding an explanation...," said Dr. Fred H. Edwards, "...will require new research." Edwards, from the University of Florida Health Science Center, and his colleagues compared more than 50 risk factors …
The idea that life on earth began in the furnace-like temperatures of a volcanic environment has received support from an experiment designed to reconstruct the chemical events that may have led to the first living cells. The experiment reported in the latest issue of the journal Science, shows that peptides, …
The Rs 1,333 crore Ranbaxy Laboratories is readying itself to launch a 75 mg over the counter version (OTC) of anti-ulcer drug, rantidine, in the US by Decemeber this year to cash in on the generic wave.
The Delhi Government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) today began a short training programme for over 30,000 students to create awareness for prevention of water-borne diseases and elimination of mosquito-breeding sites.
A research foundation in Bangalore has developed a new drug for obesity control that, it claims, is totally safe and much more effective than available formulas in the market. The Vittal Mallya Scientific Research Foundation has extracted a highly soluble powder form of purified hydroxycitric acid (HCA) from the rind …
Scientists and virologists, confronted with setbacks in their quest for anti-AIDS drugs, reiterate prevention as the best bet to control the spread of the disease.
India's failure to ratify the Basel Convention on the cross-border movement of toxic waste continues to make it a major destination of international trade in hazardous waste.
Organ transplants from pigs to humans could start within months if a forthcoming application to perform such operations is approved by the British government, a medical research company said on Thursday.Imutran, which is based in Cambridge, north of London, and is at the forefront of research to use pig livers …
leaded petrol will be phased out across much of the developed world by the year 2005 in order to help reduce emissions of toxic heavy metals. The us, Canada and European countries pledged to stop sales of the fuel in a recent summit of environmental ministers from 54 nations held …
Accidents in the operating theatre can now be reduced significantly, thanks to a new, cordless portable vacuum cleaner developed at Northwestern University in Illinois, USA, that removes fluids easily and efficiently. At present, most surgeons use suction tubes from central vacuum systems mounted on the wall to remove blood, saline …
a california-based company, VaxGen, has received permission from the us Food and Drug Administration (fda) to conduct the world's first large-scale test of aidsvax
Japan will provide a grant of nearly 400 million Yen to Bangladesh to help eradicate polio from the country. Japan will provide the grant to UNICEF-Bangladesh for procurement of 30 million doses of Oral Polio Vaccine to be used in the fifth National Immunisation Days.
Nick Brown, the new agriculture minister of UK acceded to European Commission demands by announcing a further cattle cull in an attempt to speed the removal of the beef export ban. The new cull would involve the offspring of cows which had developed BSE, and would eliminate the small risk …
The South African cabinet has approved draft legislation to severely limit smoking in public places, to ban all tobacco advertising and to impose heavy penalties on violations. Health Minister Dr Nkosazana Zuma's Tobacco Products ControlAmendment Bill lays down that any person found guilty of smoking in a public place, in …
