Viagra competitor up for approval
A second impotence pill is up for approval by US drug regulators. If passed, Vasomax, manufactured by Texas-based Zonagen, will become the first direct competitor to Pfizer's blockbusting drug Viagra. The company submitted an application to have the drug approved to the US Food and Drug administration (FDA) on Wednesday …
Cell transplantation for diabetics
Diabetics will soon be able to throw away their insulin-injecting needles, according to USresearchers. The scientists are hoping to administer the essential hormone to patients by implanting bioengineered insulin-producing cells under the skin. Bernhard Hering, from the University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis told the 17th World Congress of the …
War caused arsenic contamination of ground water
study: The use of certain chemicals in the Bangladesh war and certain other chemicals in the weapons used in 1971 had caused speedier spread of arsenic contamination in ground water chemistry of about 28 districts of Bangladesh and an adjoining one in West Bengal.
Cholera cases on the rise
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the Delhi Jal Board are working in tandem to tackle the menace of cholera which has been accentuated with the onset of monsoon.
Government to launch anti-pan masala campaign
The Health Minister, Mr. Dalit Ezhilmalai, declared the intention of the Government to launch awareness campaigns under its National Cancer Control Programme on the harmful effects of pan masala that contained chewing tobacco (gutkha).
Syphilis genome mapped US
Scientists have succeeded in mapping the genetic make-up of the bacterium that causes syphilis. The information could be critical for developing new vaccines anddrugs against the disease. Molecular geneticist Claire Fraser from The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Maryland, who worked on the microbe, said the syphilis bacterium, Treponema …
Vaccines will soon fight cancer
Doctors are on the verge of using vaccines to treat cancer patients, according to a new report. 'Cancer vaccines on the brink of commercial launch'found that the first such vaccine is expected to hit the market by the end of the year. Another five or six could be available by …
Heat blamed for up to 50 deaths in South
The heat wave has been blamed for nearly 50 deaths and for withering crops throughout the South. The heat wave has stretched north into Colorado, but has been particularly deadly across the South.
Japan warns Viagra users
Japan isued a health warning over the use of the anti-impotence drug Viagra after a 60-year-old man died shortly after taking the pill.
A new common virus may not cause disease
A virus discovered only last year may be carried by as much as 10 percent of the general population and appears to be transmitted in blood products, according to a new research. There's little evidence, however, that transfusion-transmitted virus (TTV) causes disease, although that possibility has not been eliminated entirely. …
L-G asks government for report on cases of cholera
The Lt Governot has demanded a report from the Delhi government on the rising cases of cholera in the Capital, even as Delhi Health Minister Harsh Vardhan maintained that the situation was well under control. Every day at least 25 cases of this endemic disease are being reported from various …
Australian agency raises $49,000 towards AIDS awareness
The Australian Government's funding agency, AusAID (Agency for International Development) has released an aid of $49,000 for the awareness generation and prevention against AIDS project undertaken by Deepalaya in the Capital. A statement today said the project was inaugurated at Raghubir Nagar slum clusters in West Delhi by Ms. Gillian …
Similar tasks, different risks
Women and men react differently to hazards at workplaces and have different risk factors. This was the thrust of a workshop on Occupational Health Hazards of Women Workers held in New Delhi organised by the Soceity for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) .
SAARC meet to discuss adolescent health
Representatives from sever SAARC countries will meet here from July 21 to discuss the issues of sexual and reproductive health of adolescents in developing countries. The three-day conference, supported by the United Nations Population programme, will also include two adolescents to voice their concerns during the proceedings.
Let's get emotional about dad and brainy about mom
Do we inherit out father's emotions and out mother's brains? On first thoughts, such an idea might seem ridiculous. However, pioneering research on mice reveals that the mother's genes play a major part in development of the parts of the offsprings' brains that are responsible for their intelligence. The father's …
ADMK MPs meet PM on Cauvery
The Cauvery dispute is set to be the next flashpoint for the Government, which came under renewed pressure today from the AIADMK Frint on the issue.The Front's 26 MPs met Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee this morning and handed over a memorandum from J. Jayalalithis asking, among other things, that …
Residents refute MCD's claim on chlorine tablet distribution
The municipal corporation says it has distributed 1.92 crore chlorien tablets in the areas worst affected by cholera & gastroenteritis. But at least one area, struggling with water shortage, choked drains, insanitation and a paucity of qualified medical practitioners, the claim seems to fall flat.
Gullas villagers waiting to be submerged
In a couple of weeks fro now, the uncontrolled water from the narmada river is likely to submerg several villages in Harsud tehsil of Khadwa district, thanks to the 3,600 crore Narmada Sagar Project, the second most "ambitious " and "destructive" dam after the controversial Sardar Sarovar dam in the …
Clinical trial of new AIDs drug okayed
As Indian grapples with the AIDs menace, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has given a nod to the National AIDs Control Organisation to conduct clinical trials on the efficacy of AZT therapy to control the transmission of HIV from an infected mother to the child.
New cancer therapy
A significant forward step in cancer treatment has been achieved by Japanese scientists using a variable wavelength solid laser, a system under which a tumour-specific photo-sensitiser is administered to the patient and is followed by laser-photo-radiation.
