Scientists want more after rumours of mouse cloning
A crowd of more than 300 scientists at the frontiers in reproduction research symposium waited eagerly for the rumoured breakthrough news that a mouse had been cloned. Instead, all they got on Friday night were tantalising scraps about what "if it proves to be true" could possibly be as exciting …
100 nations seek ban on toxic matter
Taking aim at the so-called "dirty dozen", delegates from more than 100 nations begin negotiations on Monday on the first global treaty banning or reducing use of some of the most toxic chemical pollutants.At week-long talks in Montreal, sponsored by the UN environmental programme, delegates will try to set a …
Thermal plant site choice 'vital' for environment
Finding an appropriate location for setting up a thermal power plant could greatly reduce its adverse impact on the environment, according to Mr Shekhar Singh of the Indian Institute of Public Administration.
PM to inaugurate ayurvedic conference
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will inaugurate the 55th All India Ayurvedic Congress at New Delhi on Wednesday and is expected to outline the government's policy on the India systems of medicine.
Deadly virus
Elementary schools across Taiwan started summer vacation a week early, but their students have no place to go combating a virus that already has killed 52 children, summer camps won't open this year, and swimming pools have barred all kids under 14.
Eying the enemy
On the eve of the 12th International Conference on AIDS comes some sobering news : a report.
Local doctor accused of plagiarism
A claim by a local doctor over an 'AIDS medicine' led to a controversy with some professors in Andhra university here taking credit of inventing the medicine and attributing plagiarism to the doctor. A medical practitioner Dr Kutikuppala Surya Rao claimed before newsmen on Wednesday that he had invented medicine …
Drastic cut in WHO aid to India
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is making drastic cuts in the aid extended to India and some other countries in south-east Asia. India, already faced with sanctions, will now have to cope with an additional burden from the health sector.
Red tape squeeze on cancer painkiller
An artificial, country-wide scarcity in supplies of the painlikking drug, morphine, is driving terminally ill cancer patients to agonising deaths. For nearly two years now the drug has been extremely difficult to procure because of red tape. Government rules meant to prevent morphine abuse have actually made the drug inaccessible …
Cost curbs use by Germany
Viagra, the drug for treating male impotence, will not be available for patients in Germany through the nation's statutory health insurance system. A federal government committee of doctors and insurance funds that decides on drug matters agreed unanimously that the funds should not pay for Viagra and ruled out exceptions …
PM demanded fewer rules on meat hygiene
Confidential documents released by the inquiry into BSE show that John Major, as prime minister demanded that there should be less regulation of the meat industry at a time when controls to protect human health were being poorly implemented.
Action to stop illegal sales
The UK government's Medicines Control Agency has set up a Special Enquiry Unit to crack down on illegal sales of Viagra. The MCA said that it would take action against people selling Viagra, which is an unlicensed drug in Britain and can only be prescribed on a "named patient basis" …
ADB blasts govt over Melamchi
A top official of Asian Development Bank (ADB), the leading donor agency on Melamchi Drinking Water Project, criticized the Nepal government for failing to take donors into confidence on the 30 million dollar project.
The internet doctor is in
American and Chinese doctors consulted across cyberspace in the first successful live medical teleconference between their countries.
New tobacco Bill planned
US House Republicans have laid out plans for a tobacco Bill that bears little resemblance to the $516-billion tobacco killed by the Senate last week.Republicans said the House bill would not try to resolve state Medicaid suits against the tobacco companies, would not have a tax increase and would not …
Gene stands between smoking and addiction
Scientists have discovered why some people never get addicted to cigarettes and why all smokers do not develop tobacco-related cancers. For some people, a common genetic defect reduces their ability to metabilise nicotine, the additive ingredient in cigarettes, making them less likely to become smokers. If they do take up …
Abortion drug faces a curb
The House has voted 223 to 202, to prohibit the US Food and Drug Administration from using federal money to test, develop or approve any drug that chemically induces abortion.
Single women denied health care
Doctors working in Taliban-held Afghanistan were ordered on Thursday to deny treatment to women not accompanied by a clost male relative, state-run radio Shariat announced.
Over 145000 tube-wells installed in State
The Public Health Engineering Department(PHE) of Assam has so far implemented more than 3,500 small and medium pipe water schemes and more than 1,45,000 tube-wells in various places of the state.In addition to these, one laboratory for testing water quality in every district has already been set up.
