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 …
In a major move to discourage and prevent smoking by minors, the Tobacco Institute of Japan, an industrial organisation comprising Japan Tobacco Inc, Philip Morris Co and other Japanese and foreign cigarette manufacturers has decided to suspend TV and radio commercials on their tobacco products starting April 1998.
Medical researchers in Britain have found an unexpected risk in the implantation of more than one fertilized egg in the womb of a woman undergoing in vitro fertilisation. They have found a case in which two embryos, one male and one female, fused in development to form a single child. …
Greenpeace : The US has done it again. Along with its now familiar posturing at world forums on matters of environmental importance, Washington continues to pursue a hidden agenda of "dumping its load" on poor, relatively voiceless developing nations. This time it is hazardous waste that stains the hands of …
Bristol Myers Squibb Co has won US Food and Drug Administration approval to sell its Excedrin as the first non-prescription treatment for migraine headache pain.
In another shocking case, a patient in critical condition undergoing treatment at Safdarjung hospital died after his relatives failed to arrange for blood in time. Notwithstanding the government's reassuring statements on the availability of blood in the city after December 1, when a Supreme Court order formally banned all professional …
Women who are model-thin when they get pregnant for the first time are far more likely to have healthy babies than obese women or even those of normal weight , Swedish study found.
Britain has got its first college for ayruvedic studies following a surge in demand for treatment under the traditional herb-based Indian system of medicine.
Food producers, shops and restraurants in UK may be asked to pay up to $325m a year to fund the new Food Standards Agency - possibly through a flat rate licence fee.
The European Commission recommended a resumption of beef exports from Northern Ireland in the first relaxation of the global ban on British beef it imposed in March 1996, to stem the spread of mad cow disease.
The red, white and blue of US flags will be flying in Hong Kong's wet markets this weekend as US poultry producers try to persuade consumers it's safe to eat American chickens.
US researchers say they may have found the "cellular fountain of youth" an enzyme that in laboratory experiments causes human cells to avoid the normal process of ageing and cell death. The finding by researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre in Dallas won't make people any younger …
The country's two wheeler leader Bajaj Auto, often not perceived to be innovative company, finally hit the bullet and unveiled a new four stroke scooter, Legend. This is as part of the two wheeler behemoth's efforts to phase out highly polluting two stroke scooters by 2003.
The relentless pace of discovery and application of biotechnologies are raising more and more ethical questions over their potential misuse, a leading medical expert has warned.
why do babies that are born underweight run the risk of developing diseases such as heart disease and diabetes? David Barker and his colleagues at the University of Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, uk, have found that weight at birth and in some cases, low weight at even one-year of age, …
Scientists have discovered how chilli hurts and also found a new use for pain as well. David Julius and his team at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, have discovered a chemical called capsaicin that is responsible for the chilli pepper's piquant taste. They have also identified and cloned …
some people get drunk after consuming a small quantity of alcohol, whereas others stay calm. A team of researchers led by Hiroaki Niki at the riken Brain Science Institute, Wako city, Japan, says the variation could be linked to an enzyme that modifies brain receptors for alcohol. According to them, …
a scientific investigation by the Russian and Norwegian governments has found that radioactive contamination from the production of plutonium for the former Soviet Union's nuclear weapons was far higher than was ever believed. Since 1948, the Mayak nuclear complex in the southern Urals has leaked 8900 petabecquerels of radioactive isotopes …
