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 …
Medical researchers said they successfully used a genetically engineered protein developed by Genentech Inc., to help heart patients grow blood vessels around potentially lethal blockages in their coronary arteries. In a study involving 15 subjects, researchers found evidence that the protein, eager vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF, promoted blood …
Ayurvedic physicians are now successfully treating cancer patients with new drugs they have formulated. They are claiming "at least 65 per cent success" in treating 73 patients, suffering from various types of cancer. Doctors at the Ashtvaidyan Ayurveda Foundation - an NGO dedicated to spreading the system of medicine all …
The Government has decided to encourage development of clusters of small hydro power projects in the north-eastern States to make the area a net exporter of power to other parts of the country. The Power Minister, Mr. P.R. Kumaramangalam, has asked the State-owned North Eastern Electric Power Corporation to prepare …
The Chief Medical Officer and Health officer has informed that the outbreak of jaundice in the Durg district for the past one month has been brought under control. It could be recollected that jaundice had spread in the ward numbers 27,28 and 29.
kerala, with population density of 787 people per square kilometre and 1,500 in the coastal areas (India's population density is 273), is finding the disposal of waste a major cause for worry. Villages have become towns due to urbanisation. Cities like Cochin, Thiruvanantapuram and Kozhikkode are unable to dispose off …
Serge Renaud, the French scientist who had earlier proved that drinking wine is a heart-friendly activity, recently came up with some more heartening news for wine lovers. According to him, two to three glasses of wine per day keeps no, not the doctor, but death away. Yes, if Renaud's claims …
in the not-so-distant future, a new born's umbilical cord may symbolise a new lease of life for patients suffering from terminal diseases. A team of biologists at Tata Memorial Centre's Cancer Research Institute (cri) in Mumbai, India, has developed an inexpensive alternative for invasive and often-precarious procedure of bone marrow …
The National Human Rights Com-mission (NHRC) has asked the Andhra Pradesh government to submit a report regarding mass suicides by cotton farmers in the state. Recently, P Pullarao, a resident of Polavaram, Andhra Pradesh, and also an agriculturist, had lodged a complaint to NHRC about suffering of farmers in the …
for those who had been thirsting for news on the moon, this certainly is exciting. The cold, dark side of the moon has something that its bright side does not
Technology got us into this : Cheap oil may be a sweet dream of Chevy Suburbans, but it's a nightmare for environmentalists and others who are fretting about air pollution and global warming. Cheaper gasoline and other transportation fuels will lead to more consumption and more harmful emissions.
Even the most skilled of surgeons dread the leaks that can develop around incisions after patients have been stiched with surgical staples or sutures. Focal Inc. in Lexington, Mass., is proposing to close them with a dab of glue. Focal's synthetic surgical sealant expands and contracts with the tissue it …
For years, drug makers pinned their lackluster consumer marketing on Big Brother. The Food and Drug Administration's tight restrictions on how prescription drugs could be pitched to patients, pharmaceutical firms complained, meant their ads could never shine. But last August, after the FDA relaxed rules on TV and radio ads …
Gene defects that have been linked to breast cancer are rarer than previously thought, and wide spread screening of women for the flaws would not be worthwhile, two US studies suggest.
The Voluntary Health Services (VHS), Chennai, has planned to launch six STD/HIV/AIDS control and intervention projects among the commercial sex workers at various places in the State at an estimated cost of about Rs. 1.5 crore, said Dr. Bimal Charles, Assistant Director, AIDS Prevention and Control Project (APAC), VHS, here …
It sometimes seems that with each passing year, the days and nights zip by more quickly. If you ever had this feeling, you are not imagining it. Studies of human time perception show that age related changes in the nervous system alter one's sense of time; it really does seem …
Caught in the haze? : After a week of day and night negotiations on tobacco legislation, leading US senators have agreed to drive up the price of a pack of cigarettes by $1.10 over the next five years, almost double of what they reached in a settlement last June with …
Heart Care Foundation of India and the Academy Chapter of the Indian Medical Association, New Delhi Branch, have recommended a new adult vaccine, Vaxi Grip, against flue virus called influenza. The vaccine needs to be repeated on an annual basis.
The umbilical cord, the bulk of which is "Mucoid Connective Tissue" (MCT), can bridge the bone gaps and expedite the therapeutic healing of fractures in human beings, according to latest findings by medical professionals. The finding was a joint work of anatomists of the G.S. Medical College and the Kem …
