Unani drug can cure viral fever
A unani coded drug, He 11, has been found highly effective against viral fever by the Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine.
Selling blood to the needy
Patients in need of blood at the Zonal Hospital (Dharamsala) are falling prey to professional blood donors who are allegedly operating through certain hospital employees and local pharmacists.
Advertising ban
Sri Lanka is to enforece a ban on alcohol and tobacco advertisements in newspapers, radio and television from January, a newspaper reported on Saturday,
24-week-old baby survives
For the first time in the country, a premature baby, born when the mother was barely 24 weeks into the pregancy, has survived with an expected potential for a favourable neurological outcome at the private sector PVS Hospital in Kochi.
Californians food labelling flawed'
California's system of labelling food additives and chemicals is flawed and inconsistent with state law, the world's largest food manufacturers association claimed on Friday 12 June. The Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA), which representscompanies with combined food and drink sales of over USD430bn, warned environmental officials that the system could …
Drunk flies give alchoholism clue
Scientists have used drunken fruit flies to make a breakthrough in the search for a genetic cause of alcoholism. Researchers at the University ofCalifornia decided to test whether the insects could hold their drink because fruit flies have similar reactions to alcohol as humans. The work led to the discovery …
EC taxes Indian drug imports
European Commission (EC) is imposing financial penalties on Indian firms who export antibiotics to Europe. The move follows claims by native drug makers that the imports, which are heavily subsidised by theEC, are damaging the industry. The EC announced on Thursday 11 June that it is setting a provisional anti-subsidy …
Watershed Mission plans water conventions
The Rajiv Gandhi Watershed Mission set up by the Madhya Pradesh Governemnt will be organising water conventions (Jal Sammelan) from August 15 in specially selected areas of the State where watershed-related activities have produced outstanding results.
Pot on prescription
At the moment, cannabis is seen by most authorities around the world as part of narcotics and not as a medicine. In America, at least, the government seems to be taking fairly effective measures to make sure than nobody does the research that might prove otherwise, while threatening the terrors …
Love and death
Research just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by John Allman of the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues suggests that differences in longevity between the sexes, at least in primates, seem to depend on which parent looks after the kids and how much more …
Slaughtering of cattle resumes
Slaughtering of cattle for beef exports resumed in Ulster more than two years after the European Union imposed a worldwide export ban on British beef.
Govt plans legislation to reduce tobacco use
The government proposes to introduce a comprehensive legislation to reduce the use of tobacco in the country, according to health and family welfare minister Dalit Ezhilmalai.
UK cannabis research underway
UK biotechnology company GW Pharmaceuticals announced on Thursday 11 June that it has been granted government licences to cultivate cannabis plants andto conduct the first large-scale clinical trials of the drug.
Jury orders U.S. unit of B.A.T. to pay family
A state court jury ordered Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. to pay the family of a two-pack-a day smoker who died of lung cancer $500,000 in compensatory damages, plus $450,000 in punitive damages.
No hasty decision on banning gutka
The Food and Civil Supplies Minister, Mr. G. Basavannappa, said today the Karnataka State Government would take a decision on banning gutka only after conducting a study. Addressing areca growers at a meeting organised by the Sahyadri Sangha to discuss the issue, he said that the Government would not take …
Mad cow disease may be worse than thought
Hundreds of thousands of apparently healthy cattle in Britain may still be infected by mad cow disease, according to the latest issue of New Scientist magazine using data collected in Switzerland. It says researchers in Switzerland found that, for every recorded case of bovine spongiform encephelopathy, another 100 cattle were …
Proposal for AIDS cell
The Tamil Nadu AIDS Control Society has asked the Chennai Corporation to form a society for concentrating on the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in the city. The anti-AIDS activities in the entire State are handled by the TNSACS. A separate unit exclusively for the city will help plan and …
Olestra may cause cancer
A consumer group that has been campaigning against olestra, the new "fat-free" fat, has renewed its assault, saying long-term use of the product may cause thousands of cancer cases. The Centre for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) said the product - sold under the brand-name Olean by Procter & …
