State to launch novel scheme to control TB
Health Minister H C Mahadevappa today announced that the Karnataka State Government would shortly be printing and distributing Rs 12 lakh worth of health education material, including wall posters and hand-outs, to create awareness about TB among the public.
- Fertility rates may be curbed via temporary birth control
Increased use of temporary methods to stop pregnancy may lower fertility rates significantly to 2.3 children per woman, a National Family Health Survey (NFHS) report on alternative contraceptive methods and fertility decline has observed. The study showed that in India the percentage contraceptive users who have already been sterlised (bout …
- Timing of water board's formation may hit summer preparations
With summer fast intensifying and a number of areas already facing a water crisis, it is bow being questioned wheather the formation of the Delhi Jal Board has come at an inopportune time. For, a number of mandatory measures to tackle the summer--like strengthening the network of emergency control rooms …
Delhi decides to fight Thalassemia
The Delhi Government is launching an ambitious campaign from April 24 to create awareness about the fatal Thalassemia disease. On that day, special screening would be done at select hospitals of the city.
AIDS awareness through magical aids
It was a novel programme of creating awareness on AIDS. The medium was magic and the performer was none other than Prof. R.K. Malayath, the leading exponent of this art in Kerala.The AATMA-98, (AIDS Awareness Through Magical Aids), held this evening at the Town Hall in Kozhikode, attracted people in …
- Vitamine D deficiency causes osteoporosis
A new study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine strongly suggests that widespread deficiencies of vitamin D may play a big role in causing the bone-wasting disease osteoporosis among older people. The study was conducted by Dr Melissa Thomas and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital among 290 hospitalised …
Minister defends health scheme
Delhi Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said that the one-day health programmes have created awareness among people, who have reciprocated by coming in large numbers on the prescribed day. The Minister said this at a Press conference on Wednesday to launch a Centre for Thalassemia patients at the Guru Tegh …
Public-Health setbacks test Hong Kong
The Food Control Office at Man Kam To is Hong Kong's first line of defence against any pestilence brewing across the border between China's newest special administrative region and Guangdong province. Each day, about 400 trucks roar up to the station's loading docks, where dozens of health inspectors swarm over …
China emphasizes management of underground water resources
China, one of 13 countries facing serious water shortages, will formulate a plan this year to scientifically develop underground water resources. Statistics show that only 290 billion out of China's 870 billion cu.m. underground water resources are available for exploitation.
Court blow to 'safety curb' on beef sales
The UK government's attempt to ban the sale of beef on the bone suffered an embarrassing setback when a Scottish court threw out the UK's first prosecution under the new legislation.
Hong Kong tries to cleanse its public health system
The Food Control Office at Man Kam To is Hong Kong's first line of defence against any pestilence brewing across the Chinese border. Each day, about 400 trucks come to the station's loading docks, where dozens of health inspectors swarm over the 1,000 tons of vegetables, fresh milk and live …
Chance finding spurs a race for nerve drugs
Independent of one another, research teams at Johns Hopkins University and Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland recently made the surprising discovery that medicines originally developed to suppress the immune system and fight organ-transplant rejection can also regrow nerves in the spine or brain damaged by neurological diseases or accidents.
Over-exploitation of groundwater in city
Chairman of the Central groundwater board (CGWB) Dr D K Chadha on Tuesday said that the Centre had circulated a draft bill among water scarcity states enabling them to make legislations to prevent indiscriminate exploitation of groundwater and its pollution and take up remedial measures to improve the groundwater tables.
- Jeevan Raksha yatra to check spread to epidemics
With cases of diseases like leptospirosis on the rise, the Gujarat Government has decided to take out a Jeevan Raksha yatra from May 1 to 7. The aim of this yatra is to educate people on how to check the spread of these epidemics.
Fish oils foil cardiac deaths
A review from the University of Newcastle reveals that higher intakes of fish oils can help prevent sudden cardiac deaths.
Minister's AIDS workshop for legislators finds few takers
When a legislator asked during a half-an-hour discussion in the Maharashtra Assembly if you could get AIDS from mosquito bites, Health Minister Daulatrao Aher, a doctor, was appalled.So was the Chief Minister Manohar Joshi at the suggestion from another legislator that the police, patil and sarpanch in all villages of …
Rat race in space aboard Columbia
It was a rat race aboard space shuttle Columbia as rodents with electrodes implanted in their brains scurried around a 3-D track and a cross-shaped maze. Columbia's astronauts monitored the nerve activity of the exercising rats for the brains study. By late on Monday, all four test subjects had completed …
- Dr B C Roy award given
The head of the Cardio-Thoracic Centre at the All India Institute of Medical Science, Professor P Venugopal, has been selected for the prestigious Dr B C Roy National Award in the category of eminent medical person.
Ex-IBM workers claim toxins exposure
Nineteen former employees of International Business Machines Corp. sued the company and its suppliers, charging that exposure to toxic chemicals at the company's semiconductor plant in San Jose, California, gave them cancer. The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in San Jose, is the third by chip workers against IBM …
9% child development projects in city's slums
As little as nine per cent of the total projects under the Integrated Child Development Services are being undertaken in the slums of the national capital while the infant mortality rate is three times higher in these areas than the city average, says a new study. Despite the existence of …
