Bhutan at the four-nation biodiversity conference
Bhutan was elected as the speaker of the four countries - Bhutan, Benin, Costa Rica and the Netherlands - that signed the sustainable development agreement in 1994 during the Fourth Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, recently.
Sale of Viagra receives green light
The sale of Viagra , a new drug for male impotence, will be allowed despite reported deaths linked to its side effects. Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng said the registration of the drug would not be called off because it is found to be more beneficial than harmful.
A tool for staying a step ahead of HIV
There is a way to head off resistance before it occurs. By reading the genetic codes of viruses as they mutate and evolve in actual patients, Robert M. Lloyd Jr., scientific director at Applied Sciences Inc. in Norcross, Ga., made a critical discovery. Before a strain of virus actually mutates …
'Salt Satyagrahas' against 'Black Law'
Sarvodaya activists will hold "Salt Satyagrahas" in 100 towns across Rajasthan from June 5 to 18 to protest against the nationwide ban on use of natural salt which became effective from today.
World No Tobacco Day to be observed on May 31
In India, tobacco claims ten lakh lives every year, 3,000 lives every day and one life every ten seconds. By the year 2000, it will claim one life every three seconds. Two crore Indian children get addicted to smoking every year. 55,000 children get addicted to smoking every day. These …
Phones can infect too
Making call from a public booth of a hospital ward can prove to be dangerous as mouthpiece of a telephone is a potential vector for transmission of diseases, a study has warned."Telephone infection" is rampant in hospital wards, the study published ina journal of Association of Physicians of India by …
Hospitals report more cases of sunstroke
City hospitals are registering a steady increase in number of heat stroke patients for the past few days. Deaths also have been confirmed. On an average, each hospital is getting around four heat stroke patients everyday.
States told to pay for Viagra
The Clinton administration has told state officials that it intends to require their Medicaid programs to pay for medically approved uses of Viagra.
Rs 3,000 a month for water, parched city never had it so bad!
The water tanker lumbers slowly into a South Delhi colony and suddenly the slumbering, quiet street is abuzz with activity. Everyone tries to direct the tanker towards his house. The man in charge pulls out a long hose pipe, attaches it to the Syntax tank and asks, "How much?" Like …
Good news from AIIMS
The deaf can hear again : Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences have implanted an improved electronic device in a completely deaf patient, helping him hear again. This is the third patient to be implanted with the imported Australian device at AIIMS .
Study questions cancer threat from asbestos
US Government regulators may have greatly overestimated the cancer risk from asbestos, according to new research that suggests the billions of dollars spent to clean up contaminated public buildings may have been a massive case of overkill.
FDA panel backs vaccine
An advisory panel at the US Food and Drug Administration recommended approval of an eagerly awaited vaccine for Lyme disease, a potentially fatal illness afflicting about 15,000 Americans each year, primarily in the suburban north-east and Midwest. The vaccine is called LYMErix and produced by SmithKline Beecham.
EU moves to lift ban on beef from Ulster
The European Commission announced a June 1 date for the resumption of beef exports from Northern Ireland, which were banned more than two years ago over the "mad cow" disease crisis.
Ban on Viagra
Health officials in Ho Choi Minh City have banned the anti-impotence drug Viagra pending a Ministry of Health review of its safety.
Ban on Viagra
Impotency drug 'Viagra' has been banned in Vietnam. The ban would continue till the ministry of health examines, whether it is safe to take this drug or not.
