2.3 lakh kids die of measles annually
Despite the tremendous stride made over the past two decades in immunisation of infants against the "big six" diseases , measles remains the number one vaccine-preventable killer of children under five and Indian along accounts for 230,000 of the over 8,00,000 deaths from the disease every year. Measles continues to …
Arsenic found in Bihar rivers
Rivers flowing through Bihar coalfields are arsenic carriers. This is one of the factors responsible for arsenic contamination in West Bengal. According to Geological Society of India fellow member and Indian Association of Sedimentalogy life member Ninish Priyadarshi, sediments consisting of the deadly arsenic, carried by the rivers, including the …
Low birth rates cause alarm
Driven largely by prosperity and freedom, millions of women throughout the developed world are having fewer children than ever before. They stay in school longer, put more emphasis on work and marry later. As a result, birth rates in many countries are now in a rapid, sustained decline. Never before …
Looking for a landmark
After a sojourn in Washington, DC, the tobacco industry is now back in the courts. How well-manned are its defences? : a report.
Children in Tokyo fall ill from smog
A stagnant air pattern, oppressive summer heat and urban pollution formed a smog cocktail over greater Tokyo which is suspected of sickening hundreds of school children, the Tokyo government said on Friday.
Over 12,000 gastroenteritis cases in Delhi this year
Over 12,000 gastroenteritis cases, including over 6,000 among children, were reported in various hospitals of Delhi this year, but the Health Ministry informed Rajya Sabha that no significant increase was reported in this regard.
UNFPA to implement $100 m programme
The United Nations Population Fund will implement the biggest country programme in India with a support of $100 millions to the Population and Development programmes of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
UN populaiton award
A group of Ugnadan elders credited with helping reduce the practice of female genital mutilation and the head of Jamaica's family planning board have been jointly awarded the 1998 UN population award. The award, which was presented yesterday, was set up by the UN General Assembly.
Two thirds of people have no access to safe drinking water
More than two-thirds of Dhaka dwellers are lacking access to safe drinking water supplied by Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority. Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority does not know the exact number of its authorised individual consumers in the city.
Almatti
Cong. disputes Karnataka's claim: Three Congress(I) MLAs - Mr J.C. Diwakar Reddy, Mr. Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu and Mr. E. Pratap Reddy - have taken exception to the claim of the Karnataka Chief Minister, Mr. J.H. Patel, that permission from the Central Government was obtained for the Alamatti dam upto a …
Dow Corning settles breast-implant lawsuit
Dow Corning Corp. and lawyers for tens of thousands of women claiming injury from silicone breast implants has agreed to a $3.2 billion settlement, a long-awaited step toward ending one of the most heated disputes in American corporate history.
Gujarat chemical factory gives workers a punctured nose in gas chamber
He takes out a green file-string from his pocket, casually puts one end into his right nostril and draws it out from the other. Radheshyam Kahar is not a magician. Neither are 42 others like him. They have "nasal septum perforations", or simply stated, holes in the nasal wall, splitting …
Another $250-m WB aid likely for AIDS control
India is expected to get another World bank loan of $250 million from April next year for control of AIDS, Health Minister Dalit Ezhilmalai said on Thursday. The first World Bank loan of $870 million, initially granted for five years and extended by two more years, is scheduled to expite …
Study finds tea shield against skin cancer
Drinking tea will help in shielding against cancer-causing ultraviolet rays, according to scientists at a Government research centre in Australia. A team at the Human Nutirition department of Adelaide has found that mice, given tea rather than water, cut their changes ofdeveloping skin cancer by half in experiments where groups …
Space sought for children
Union environment minister Suresh Prabhu announced the formation of a committee on Thursday which will consider the recommendations put forward by the experts during the three-day National Conference on Health and Environment.He was addressing the valedictory session of the conference, which concluded on Thursday. The minister also announced the formation …
Delhi population grew much faster
The population of the city has grown much faster than the pace projected by the planning authorities leading to serious infrastructural bottlenecks in terms of supply of electricity, water, transport, communications, sewerage and dwelling units, the Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday.
Govt rapped for starving health plans
The parliamentary standing committee on health has rapped the government for making ameagre allocation of Rs 280.37 crore in the Nineth Five Year Plan for the Department of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy.
Govt. to organise Matri Suraksha Divas
In order to provide guidance and medical treatment to pregnant women, the Delhi Government will organise "matri Suraksha Divas" tomorrow(Friday). According to the Delhi Health Minsiter, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, special ante-natal check-up arrangements have been made for the purpose in all the 500 hospitals, dispensaries and Mother and Child care …
