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 …
engineers in New Zealand have developed a wind turbine that utilises maximum wind power and converts it into energy. The device has been found to be far efficient than the presently used wind turbines. With this exciting breakthrough, engineers have shown hope that wind power may soon become a potential …
a heliostat is being developed that increases the output of photovoltaic (pv) modules by more than 450 per cent. Colin Johnson and his colleagues at HelioEnergy of Whangarei, New Zealand, have designed the machine that uses a clockwork mechanism to turn a mirror to focus the Sun's light in fixed …
• In an attempt to document lead levels in the blood of the people living in Delhi, the Central Pollution Control Board and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in collaboration with the George Foundation and supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology is launching a project, "Lead …
chemists in the us have developed a sponge-like material that is very effective at absorbing certain heavy metals. The material called mesoporous silica, can be used to clean wastewater and turn it into drinking water. Researchers say it may also be cheap and adaptable enough to use the substance in …
a wide ban on the sale of beef rib roasts, T-bone steaks and certain other on-the-bone cuts has been recommended by a European Union (eu) scientific committee because of the risk of the "mad cow' disease being transmitted. The committee has said that every country that has reported cases of …
A new state of the art device for bloodless neurosurgery is going to be introduced at the Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences,New Delhi. The first of its kind in the North India, the Gamma Knife Centre opened at the VIMHANS complex at Nehru Nagar will cater to patients …
Nineteen European nations signed an agreement banning human cloning, the first accord of its kind, at the French Foreign Ministry. The Protocol, an annex to the Council of Europe's convention on biology and medicine, is the first compulsory juridicial instrument banning human cloning, French officials said. The convention has yet …
The government has permitted export of value-added herbal formulations, ayurvedic drug formulations etc made out of plants obtained from wild as per the export-import policy prior to March 25, 1996 for a further period up to March 31, 1998, says a notification issued by the director-General of foreign trade.
The sub-continent's first ever pediatric liver transplant was performed at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital on a 10 month old baby. The transplant was unique as an adult liver was taken and cut to the size which fit the baby.
Women's groups in Peru charge that thousands of women are being tricked or pressured into being surgically sterilised by state health officials as part of a campaign to control Peru's high birth rate.
Despite making tall claims about initiating several health programmes, Madhya Pradesh has earned the dubious distinction of having the highest infant mortality rate in the country. According to a report of the UNICEF, more than 55 per cent of the children in the state are malnourished.
Are dreams the brain's start up test ? : New measurements taken by US scientists from sleeping people explain, at least in part, why dreams tend to have such bizarre but vivid story lines. The findings deal a blow to the Freudian interpretation of dreams but leave open the possiblity …
The government proposed setting up of one HIV testing centre in each district in a major policy initiative to control AIDS and arrest its spread within the next five years. The National AIDS Prevention and Control Policy was cleared by Prime Minister I.K. Gujral after the election commission stated that …
US healthcare costs rose by the smallest amount in almost 40 years in 1996, but still topped $1,000bn for the first time, a study by the federal government's national health accounts team revealed.
The government on Monday extended the period of export of value-added herbal formulations, ayurvedic drug formulations of 17 species of wild plants till March 31, 1998.
UK scientists : British scientists are demanding that the mobile telephone, carry a health warning. Amid an explosive growth of mobile communications, concerns are mounting about cellular telephones potential links to health problems ranging from headaches to brain tumours.
A disease outbreak already believed to be responsible for deaths of more than 300 Kenyans, has claimed another 21 lives in northeastern Kenya, medical authorities said. Rift Valley Fever is spread by mosquitoes, sand flies and the slaughter of infected animals.
Irked by the authority's admission that stray dogs do sleep on certain beds of the prestigious Rajan Babu TB Hospital in New Delhi, the Delhi High Court severely admonished them and asked them to make the hospital free of dogs, monkeys and rats within one week.
The Delhi government told the High Court that it planned to initiate arbitration proceedings against the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital for reneging on its agreement to provide free treatment to poor in lieu of subsidies provided to it on the land on which the hospital is built.
