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 drug proscar has been shown to reduce the need for surgery to treat enlarged prostrate glands. In a new study, the men who took the drug required prostrate-reduction surgery only half as often as did those on dummy pills. Proscar, known generically as finasteride, is already one of the …
scientists and marine biologists have warned that catching of species that other fishes prey on will lead to collapse of marine ecosystems in the years to come. In eastern Canada, fisherfolk generally fish cod. As cod populations are depleting, they have resorted to catching shrimp, the cod's natural prey. In …
the controversy has been raging ever since cellular telephones invaded our lives. These gadgets heat up your brain, meddle with your pacemakers and perhaps, cause cancer. And ever since these words of doom were uttered, scientists have been looking at the connection of these adverse health effects with the increasing …
The Allahabad high court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to ensure uninterrupted power supply to all installations created under the Ganga Action Plan. A division bench, comprising Justice Giridhar Malviya and Justice K D Sahi, asked the authorities to report to the court about the action taken in this …
thanks to a British optician, even colour-blind people can now see red. Literally. David Harris, a uk -based medi cal expert, has developed lenses specially designed for people suffering from colour blindness. Though this fairly common eye disorder has no medical cure, Harris' invention, called chromatin, represents an important step …
The Clinton administration and members of Congress are vowing to pass strong anti-tobacco legislation even though the tobacco industry walked out of the legislative process and threatened to fight such a bill in court.
Young children in North Korea appear considerably better nourished than they did a year ago, presumably as a result of international food aid, the executive director of the UN World Food Program said after a four-day trip to that hunger-stricken nation.
Two years from the start of the 2000 census, it is shaping up as the most contentious in 80 years, generating a firestorm of debate in Congress and litigation aimed at blocking the Census Bureau from changing the way it does business.
The Spanish government launched on Monday the privatisation of tobacco giant Tabacalera and the $2.5 billion share offering is expected to be a success.
The threat of gastro-enteritis epidemic looms large over the Ahmedabad city, with Gota village reporting two gastro-enteritis deaths on Saturday. Forty-nine others have been affected, while 88 others are undergoing treatment for severe diarrhoea.
Among rich countries, Japan is smoker's paradise. More than half of males smoke, vending machines are plentiful indoors and outdoors, and no-smoking areas are a relatively new concept. But it soon is going to change. On April 30, the first trial against a foreign tobacco comapny in Japan will be …
The number of children exposed to malnutrition is alarmingly increasing in Pabna district. This is mainly due to lack of proper food and necessary treatment for the children and their mothers, said doctors and local health workers. According to statistics over 2.5 million children and mothers in the 16 northern …
A leading Indo-Canadian expert on metal-caused ailments says the extensive arsenic ground water contaminaiton in West Bebgal is the worst crisis of its kind he has ever seen. Dr Bidudhendra Sarkar, Head of Structural Biology and Biochemistry of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, said on his return from …
A fourth grade science project by Emily Rosa debunks therapeutic touch but it doesn't explain why it sometimes works. Rosa's target was therapeutic touch whose proponents manipulate patients "energy fields" to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily's test shows that …
A fourth grade science project by Emily Rosa debunks therapeutic touch but it doesn't explain why it sometimes works. Rosa's target was therapeutic touch whose proponents manipulate patients "energy fields" to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily's test shows that …
Stuart Newman, a cell biologist at New York Medical College, has applied for a patent on ways to make human-animal chimeras(an animal customized with genes from different species). Newman doesn't want to do it. He just wants to make sure no one else does, either. And, with the help of …
New calculations announced at the National Astronomy Meeting in Britain suggest that our galaxy, the Milky Way, might be quite smaller than we thought it was : a report.
