No contamination of water
Report : The Technical Department of Bhilai Steel Plant officers recently visited the jaundice affected area and after collecting water samples from there tested it and found that there was no fault with water. But the Plant has given certain recommendations. As per the reports, the outbreak of jaundice was …
China will intensify family planning bid
President Jiang Zemin pledged China would intensify its campaign to curb population growth with strict family planning policies and continue efforts to protect the environment. "Family planning and environmental protection are of vital importance to sustainable economic growth", the official Xinhua new agency quoted Mr. Jiang as saying.
- WHO asks for more funds from developing countries
WHO has called for a firm commitment by the developed countries in order to achieve the ambitious goal of universal access to quality and affordable reproductive health services, set at the World Population Meet in Cairo in 1994.
- Diabetes in children on the increase
Whan a pair of 11-year old twins were diagnosed with diabetes, the doctor treating them prescribed daily insulin injections. The parents were shattered. Their's was not a lone case. Increasingly, more and more children are being affected by diabetes. According to the American Diabetes Association and the Diabetes Federation of …
- Prohibition to end in Haryana
Haryana has decided to bid farewell to prohibition in the state. A formal seal will be put on this decision when the legislators of the Haryana Vikas Party and the BJP meet in Chandigarh to discuss the election results.
- Jessa Ram hospital to promote minimal invasive surgery
Jessa Ram hospital in New Delhi is going to promote the practice of invasive surgery in all disciplines of surgery by training doctors practising in the vicinity of the hospital. The hospital has also thrown open its facility of laproscopic surgery for all patients living within the five kilometre radius …
- BJP agenda rejected
Kerala Chief Minister E K Nayanar told the State Assembly on Monday that any river water sharing formula made by the BJP in its national agenda that did not take into consideration the views of Kerala would not be acceptable to the State. The Cauvery river water sharing had to …
EU eases ban on Northern Ireland beef
European Union farm ministers voted Monday to ease the worldwide ban on British beef exports, imposed two years ago over "mad cow" disease, a British government official said.
More people are turning to nature for cure
More and more people, dissatisfied with modern medicine, are discovering the virtues of nature cure and several allopathic doctors are turning to alternative systems of medicine. "Life has changed completely for me since I took to nature therapy" says a Mumbai stock-broker Suresh Rathi:a report.
- Cauvery monitoring authority opposed
The new coalition Government to be formed at the Centre headed by Mr. Vajpayee, would not be able to include the implementation of the interim award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal to ensure the release of 205 tmc ft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu on an annual basis …
Surat-based gynaecologist bags prestigious award
The 1997 prestigious Fogsi Corion Award for the best scientific research in obstetric and gynaecology in India has been conferred on Dr. Nimish Shelat, eminent gynaecologist and scientific director of Gujarat Institute for Research in Reproduction by the Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Societies of India.
State reviews stand on Narmada oustees
Taking an urgent view of the rehabilitation and resettlement problem of the Narmada oustees, the Gujarat government has decided that it would forcefully go ahead and allow 7,903 project affected families of Madhya Pradesh to make a choice of the state in which they would like to settle down once …
Experts comes down on herbal tonics
Coming down heavily on the various herbal tonics that have flooded the market today, Dr. Prakash Kothari said that though ayurveda is a very nice and ancient form of medicine, not all drugs sold in the market strictly adhere to the norms laid down by learned scholars like Charak in …
Hong Kong cholera
Health officials stepped up checks on imported sea food Monday to combat a cholera outbreak following report that 25 more people had been striken.
-TB prevention for HIV patients
Scientists in the United States say they have devised a way of preventing TB in HIV patients,and their treatments could reduce outbreaks of the infectious wasting disease in developing countries.
- City finds place in World Bank malaria project
Calcutta has been included in the Rs. 891 crore World Bank aided Enhanced Malaria Control Project for the country. The city is the only one from West Bengal to be included in the project will cover 100 districts of eight states and 19 cities. It is for the first time …
-Herbal oil promises to power fuel needs
After the herbal petrol hoax, a bio-fuel is on the horizon. Oil extracted from the seed of the pongamia plant found in the Western Ghats region of Karnataka has been identified as a potential substitute for diesel. The Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore is experimenting with the oil ingenerators …
-Pass the salt,research team says
Contrary to the common belief that eating too much salt can lead to heart attacks and strokes,lowering sodium intake might actually be harmful,say doctors at the Albert Einstein college of medicine in New York.
- NIDA to promote research in HIV
The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the National Institute of Health (NIG|H), U.S., is keen to promote research in the area of drug abuse and HIV with Indian partners.
