- TB
Drug resistant strains threaten national health security : Even as the India celebrated the Tuberculosis eradication day on March 24 along with the rest of the world, a WHO study has slammed the country as one of the 'hot zones' for the deadly multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) along with Russia, …
Over 40 cr. spent for ICDA scheme in Haryana
The Haryana Government spent Rs 44.40 crores under Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme for providing supplementary nutrition to 12.13 lakh children and pregnant and nursing mothers during the last financial year. Disclosing this, Dr. Kamla Verma, Social Welfare Minister, said that the ICDS scheme was being implemented in all …
- Malaria control by larvivorous fish
Larvivorous species of fish Gumbusia Afnis will be used a control malaria in the M P. A comprehensive scheme has been chalked out jointly by the Health and Fisheries Departments to undertake breeding of larvivorous species of fish in the districts.
Rajasthan birth control drive flops
Contrary to the tall claims about the Government's tireless efforts for family planning, the percentage of vasectomy among men in Rajasthan has registered a sharp decline from 15 per cent in 1985 to an abysmally low one per cent in the current year.
- Ban on pan masala to hit arecanut growers
The demand for arecanut in the country is likely to crash in the next few years with more states planning to impose a ban on the use of panmasala. Already Kerala, Goa and Maharashtra, which are in the forefront of the campaign, have banned its use in major cities. Though …
- Smithkline developing four-in-one vaccine
Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals(I) Ltd is developing a single shot four-in-one India specific vaccine for dreaded disease like hepatitis B, diptheria, tetnus and whooping cough. The vaccine, which is being developed by Smithkline in conjunction with the Serum Institute of India, is likely to hit the market within two years.
Indian firm's ayurvedic drug targets Alzheimer's
An Indian firm is launching an ayurvedic memory drug in the UK targeted at sufferers of Alzeimer's disease. Memory Plus, developed by the Delhi-based Velvet International, is derived from the Brahmi plant found in Indian marshlands and used on the subcontinent as a memory aid for thousands of years.
One-tenth of blind in India
One-tenth of the world's blind live in India and the country faces gross inadequacy of opthalmic personnel and lack of services in remote areas. Of the estimated 38 million blind people in the world, about 12 million are in India alone, according to a report by the Lions Club in …
Sharp cut in WHO aid to India likely
The Health Ministry is concerned over a WHO proposal to change its policy of allocation of financial resources to its member-countries. The proposal which has already been approved by the WHO Executive Board, envisages a rather sharp cut in the allocation for India.
Social marketing to help Amethi projects
To make its contribution to the cause of primary health care for the poor and the downtrodden, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation has been running a social marketing campaign to achieve the goal of "Health for All" in 32 villages of four blocks of Amethi tehsil in Sultanpur. This social marketing …
Water crisis due to under utilisation of capacity
CAG : Delhi has been facing water shortage and contamination of the commodity due to gross under-utilisaiton of rainey wells, generation and distribution losses and improper treatment. The 18 rainey wells in Delhi have an installed capacity of 14,000 gallons, of which only 42 per cent is being utilised though …
Enormous cost escalation in irrigation projects
The slippages in the targets and Government's inability to pump in adequate funds for completion of irrigation projects have resulted in a big drain on Karnataka due to the escalation of the cost of each project eight to ten times the original estimates.
AIDS soars in Burma heroin users
So many young Burmese are injecting heroin that some medical exeprts say Burma has the world's highest rate of HIV infection and AIDS contracted from AIDS needles. By 1994, the Global Program on AIDS of the World Health Organisation reported, 74 percent of drug addicts in Rangoon, 91 percent in …
Alternative care
Buyer beware : Studies have shown that patients make more visits each year to alternative care practitioners than to primary care physicians, and most of them pay out of their pockets for the care they receive. But now in response to the growing demand and in hopes of reducing health …
Arsenic control
US filter to be tested : The All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (ALIHPH), which conducts aresenic removal programmes in West Bengal, plans to test a US made filter, institute director K.J. Nath has said.
Militancy hits HIV-AIDS campaign in North East
Militancy in the North Eastern States has claimed yet another caualty : The HIV-AIDS campaign has virtually ground to a halt with the rise in militant inspired violence, just as some states are facing an explosion of HIV-AIDS cases.
- Haroa canal widening project dropped
The irrigaiton department has abandoned its 20-year project to widen the Haroa canal, which carries the bulk of the city's sewage, because of problems in acquiring land on either bank.
Rwanda hit by cholera
A cholera epidemic has hit southwestern Rwanda where 219 cases have been recorded since March.
- Public opinion strongly favours ban on 'gutka'
There is strong and broadbased support for the proposed government move to ban the manufacture and sale of gutka, pan masala and chewing tobacco, products, a nationwide opinion poll reveals. According to the poll conducted in eight metropolitan cities across the country on April 25 and 26, as many as …
