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 …
Using E-mail, it is now possible for cardiologists in a geographical area to share the resources of a Holter Analyser located at one central place, according to a press release from Ranal Sopha Medical Pvt. Ltd. This obviates the necessity of each clinic investing on a high performance Holter Analyser …
As people get older, the male brain shrinks faster than the female brain, a study has found.But whether the greater shrinkage has any effect on how older men think or behave is not known, researchers said.
A serious outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been declared in Cape Verde, requiring urgent containment measures to prevent the disease from spreading to other countries in West Africa, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation(FAO) announced today.
European car manufacturers will be warned by the British government today to act more quickly to cut carbon dioxide emissions or risk statutory penalties. Gavin Strang, transport minister, will tell the industry that the UK regards the issue as important for its presidency of the European Union and that time …
The patient's complaint may be splitting headache, a bad back or a weak stomach . But the diagnosis in many such cases may well be depression . According to a new cross -sectional study, about 36 per cent of patients consulting general madical practitioners in Mumbai suffer from depression disorders …
seaweed found on beaches across Britain may provide some important clues to scientists about the process through which cancer develops. Researchers at the University of West of England, Bristol, have discovered a technique to track the growth of deadly cancer cells in the body using a seaweed extract. The researchers …
the North Island brown Kiwi may soon become a bird of the past. A field study conducted by John Mclennan, a scientist of Landcare research, Auckland, suggests that merely five per cent of the Kiwi chicks born every year survive until adulthood. The recent findings suggest that unless 20 per …
researchers in France have found a secondary genetic mutation that could help provide resistance to the aids virus. Alberto Beratto of St Joseph's hospital, Paris, and Luc Montagnier of the prestigious Pasteur Institute
Many people can either ignore pain or may not notice at all. But men and women use different mechanisms for this purpose. Researchers have detected a gene for female-only system that helps reduce pain in mice. The discovery of Jeffrey Mogil and his colleagues at the Oregon Health Sciences University, …
In their battle against AIDS, HIV-positive people of Nepal have found a new ally: the government. Recently, the ministry of health and ministry of women and social welfare announced an extensive HIV / AIDS education programme that plans to increase the students' access to non-discriminatory medical services. The number of …
to combat the spurious medicines that have flooded the tribal belts of south Bihar, the health department has planned to launch a massive hunt for the manufacturers responsible for marketing these drugs. In the past six months, the department seized several illegal and unlicensed drug manufacturing units and recovered a …
Doctors in Hong Kong have recently diagnosed a 19-year-old woman with the bird flu infection. With this, the total number of confirmed human cases have gone up to 16. Five people are still under observation as doctors suspect that they may also be carrying the virus. Hong Kong's attempts to …
migratory birds coming to the Bhatkal Lake area and Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary, are dying due to the growing pollution, scarcity of water in the lakes and inhospitable conditions. Members of the Delhi Wildlife Society (dws) recently found a migratory Bay Owl (Phodilus badius) and two Salty-backed Gull (Larus Schistisagus) dead …
each visual scene that we look at is highly detailed and composed of numerous elements. Though we can usually appreciate a scene as a whole, our eyes continue to move from one element of the scene, or a "target,' to another. These movements are called saccades or saccadic movements and …
• Soyabean production in India can be doubled by the year 2002, according to Gian Singh, director of VMA Oilseeds Research and Development Institute (VORDI). The use of short-duration photo-sensitive varieties and bringing more fallow land under cultivation can help raise the output to 108 million tonnes by the terminal …
segmentation and varying levels of similarity or difference between the segments are the basic characteristics of the insect body structure. For instance, a typical fly has a head, three thoracic segments and eight to nine abdominal segments. Each thoracic segment carries a pair of legs; the last two carry a …
THE southern state of Kerala has performed extraordinarily in the areas of public health, education, family welfare and adult literacy. Its success in areas other than population control are easier to understand, but its miracle in bringing down birth rate below replacement level without any significant advance in economic field …
World's top tennis player Martina Hingis is in the kingdom for twin purposes - one is trekking and the other is a visit to a health project in Nawalparasi funded by her. With the coming of the celebrity, immunization project against tetanus being run in six Village Development Committees (VDCs) …
