WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed panel of experts to find out the causes of cracks in the edifice and redesign the Rs. 13.6 billion Chashma Hydro-power project, it is learnt.Serious cracks have developed in the structure of under-construction hydro power project because of this work on the project …
Selangor has, for the first time, gone underground in itssearch for water. A company _ Pangkal Tulin Sdn Bhd _ has been appointed by the stategovernment to look ground water. It has started digging 40m into the ground at a site in Olak Lempit, Kuala Langat. The move is expected …
Scientists at the US National Institutes of Health this week said 10 volunteers had been successfully immunised against E.Coli bacteria by eating raw potatoes. The experiment was the first human trial of a seemingly fantastic health goal : to protect the world against diseases through genetically engineered foods.
Fifty per cent of the Valley's vehicles have failed the emission tests which were introduced two years ago to counter the capital's worsening level of pollution. Failing the test were some 80 per cent of the diesel tempos and most mini-buses.
Environment ministers from around the world are meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia from 4-5 May to promote new national policies and international programmes for the conservation and sustainable use of the Earth's rich heritage of biological diversity. Hosted by the government of Slovakia, the Ministerial Roundtable on Biological Diversity will explore …
Nuclear medicine, a comparatively young branch of medical science, is bringing new hope for patients suffering from soft tissue cancers and those requiring by-pass surgery of the heart, according to Dr. Bikash Sinha, an eminent nuclear physicist who is Director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) and Variable …
No one can say for sure how many days it takes for a common cold take to cure. But, scientists of Biomoleculer Engineering and Curnin School of Medicine, Melbourne, claim that a permanent cure of flu is now in sight. According to them, a chemical reaction can block the neurominides …
Reports that a part of the land adjoining the Tehri Dam area is sinking gradually and that a 50-meter-long crack has appeared near the coffer dam site have once again brought to the fore the question whether construciton of the 2,400 MW dam is fraught with danger. The crack, according …
The Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), an autonomous institution under the Governemnt of Kerala, has got international recognition for its research on Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). The centre is now planning to commercialise the kits it has developed indigenously to detect Hepatitis HCV strains. The third International Conference on …
Continuing its struggle for the completion of the Sardar Sarovar Project, the Rashtriya Janata Party will submit a memorandum to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appealing for early disposal of the Narmada dam case.
The much heralded impotence fighting drug vigra has conquered the US market, crushing its competition in just three weeks, a pharmaceutical market analysis group said.
Fearing huge payouts to millions of American men, several large insurers are adopting strict reimbursement policies for Viagra, Pfizer's new pill for impotence, requring proof of a medical cause for the problem and setting limits on the number of pills.
scientists in California have developed an anti-cancer drug. Researcher Harinder Grewal of the Arizona Cancer Center in Tuscan, usa , said that the new drug has so far been effective in treating cancers of the mouth and throat. He believes that it will work against liver cancer and recurring breast …
this is where physics meets medicine. The science of particle beams may be quite beyond the limits of medical science, but the two might soon collaborate, with results that may surprise many doctors (of medicine, that is). Two new research programmes in Europe have begun exploring down-to-earth uses for two …
a controversial study suggesting that autism is a rare side effect of immunisation against measles, mumps and rubella has led to frantic calls for extended research into the safety of multi-component vaccines. These immunise children against several diseases with a single shot. A team led by Andrew Wakefield of the …
global warming could lead to more than floods and inclement weather. It could facilitate the spread of tropical illness like dengue fever, scientists have warned. Researchers at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, usa , used computer models to map the general circulation of the earth's weather patterns and determine …
The river Teesta flowing through Lalmonirhat, Kurigram and Rangpur is drying up following continued fall in water level in this season hampering irrigation. Irrigation in all thanas of Lalmonhirhat district is being hampered as many pumps went out of operation due to fall in surface and under ground water level.
Researchrs have said they had created a possible new source for treating Parkinson's patients - the brain cells of cloned cattle. Brain cells from cattle fetuses were genetically engineered, then cloned and injected into rats with Parkinson's Disease. The treatment seemed to reduce the symptoms in the rats, the researchers …
Determined to keep efforts about second hand smoke dangers from mushrooming, the tobacco industry mobilized a counter attack in the mid-1980s to systematically discredit any researcher claiming perils from passive smoke. Internal memos among the 39,000 released last week paint a picture of an industry on the defensive, facing the …
A threat to minorities health : In a report that afforded President Clinton the perfect opportunity to renew his call for comprehensive tobacco legislation, the surgeon general, David Stacher, has warned that increase in smoking by minorities, especially minority teenagers, threaten to reverse significant declines in the incidence of cancer.
