- Peru ends sterilization plan
Facing pressure from American aid officials and congressional threats to cut off assistance, the Peruvian government is abadoning a campaign that led to sterilizations of thousands of poor women.
- Suit seeks to ban Japanese sales of Philip Morris
A group of 20 anti-smoking activists and self described nicotine addicts filed a class action suit against a Japanese affiliate of the U.S. tobacco giant Philip Morris Co., demanding it stop sales in Japan.
- Tobacco companies defend advertising
The top executives of the major tobacco companies have told the US Senate that they would never agree to modify their advertising and marketing practices unless the lawmakers gave the industry substantial protection against lawsuits.
- Predicting new drugs effectiveness
Four years ago, Dr. Daniel Cohen dazzled the scientific world when his Paris lab roughed out the first comphrehensive map of all human chormosomes. This year, he will complete a far more detailed map and attach it to a tantalizing business proposition: using the map to predict the responses of …
- Laser probes aid eye surgery
A Technique originally devised to test aeroplane turbines are being adapted to help surgeons perform a particularly intricate type of eye operation. The technique was developed by the University of Warwick's engineering department to measure supersonic flaws on aeroengine turbines using very small laser based probes.
- ABB set to defend dams
Goran Lindahl, chief executive of ABB, the international engineering group, is expected to try to counter the growing criticism of his strategy to chasing big low margin hydro-electric dam contracts when the ABB holds its annual press conference.
- Where infectious diseases breed
Three of the busiest railway stations in the Capital are slowly degenerating into breeding grounds for infectious diseases, says the latest report of the non-governmental organisation, Vatavaran. After a survey of the unhygienic conditions prevalent in the New Delhi, Old Delhi and Nizamuddin stations, the NGO has observed a 92 …
- Selling prisoners' organs in U.S.
Two Chinese arrested in New York have been charged with conspiring to supply medical transplants cut from executed Chinese prisoners. Some body parts, such as kidneys, would be transplanted to patients in Chinese hospitals for about $30,000 a fraction of the cost of such an operation in America. Others, including …
- Plan for sustainable use of bio-diversity
Eminent environment experts and social scientists here have drawn up an agenda outlining initiatives for sustainable use of bio-diversity which would collectively benefit developing countries faced that they are with the issue of bio-diversity conservation. With the Non-Aligned Movement serious about purtting bio-diversity conservation on the working agenda of member …
- Sounds ominous? Ultrasound may cause illness
Ultrasound devices might be considered safe, but most of the machines used in different clinics, hospitals and nursing homes are not quite reliable and can lead to wrong diagnosis as well as damaged tissues and fibres, warns a leading scientist.
- 54 pc kids suffer from malnutrition
A two-day state level workshop on nutrition, health, and sanitation has recommended the development of state specific need-based strategies and district action plans to combat malnutrition, implementation of effective communicaiton strategy, community empowerment and formation and strengthening of inter sectoral groups for convergence and coordination.
- Leptospirosis is spreading
Experts : Leptospirosis disease, lesser known and difficult to diagnose, is fast emerging as a major public health porblem in villagers and cities in India, warn experts. Speaking at a round table discussion organised on leptospirosis by Ranbaxy Science Foundation here, S C Sehgal, director, Regional Medical Research centre , …
- Biopiracy of Indian plants continues unabated
Besides neem and turmeric, a number of Indian plants like mustard, black pepper, castor and cumin have been patented, according to a report that says this biopiracy is continuing unabated by developed countries. A fact-sheet, prepared by a research foundation for science, technolgy and ecology, lists 22 medicinal and agricultural …
- Health service give timetable for change
The UK government set doctors and health service managers, a tight deadline for putting in place proposed health service reforms, outlined in a white paper published last December.
- Govt may ease ban on herb exports
The government is expected to soften its stand on the export ban initiated for 53 plants and their derivatives to enable ayrvedic drug manufacturers get more than a toe-hold in the international market for value-added herbal formulation.
-Complex cancer surgery performed
Mr. Ashutosh Pal, a Lucknow University student, got a fresh lease of life when the lower half of his cancer-affected breathing passage was removed and reconstructed at the Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre here.
- Throat infection in walled city
Residents of the walled city, after facing and bearing unseasonal rains and its consequences are now in the grop of throat infection and fever. Their problem is being aggravated because of the scarcity of both, the doctors and medicines in various government hospitals.
- Heart drug can create blood vessel within days
Doctors in Germany have developed an experimental drug that creates the blood supply to the human heart within days after injection, according to a report in an American medical journal. It is the first time that a drug has led to growth of new coronary blood vessels by mimicking the …
