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 …
an italian microbiologist who has been monitoring hygiene on the Russian space station, Mir, says that filthy conditions have caused its occupants to suffer from food poisoning and other infections. Mario Pitzurra of Perugia University says that these infections have so far been controlled by using antibiotics. "Mir's basic hygiene …
studies have shown that the problem of obsessive compulsive disorders ( ocds) in most people starts in childhood. Patients suffering from the disease develop odd behaviours such as checking things again and again, showing jerky movements after a brief illness or head injury, or spinning around a set number of …
Infants who take water in addition to breast milk or formula food may be at a serious health risk, say Paula Scariatt and her colleagues at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA. Such infants are likely to develop altered mental state, abnormally low body temperature, bloating and …
you might have played several guitars , but plucking the strings of this guitar may not be easy. Harold Craighead and Dustin Carr at the Cornell University, usa , have developed the world's smallest guitar that is nearly hundredth of a millimetre long. By inventing the guitar, the researchers wanted …
the atmospheres of giant planets are mostly made-up of hydrogen, helium and methane. Now, studies at the Infrared Space Observatory ( iso ) Science Operation, Villafranca, Spain, show that the icy satellites and the rings which surround these planets, could be an important source of oxygen to the atmospheres of …
an oil slick has polluted a two kilometre stretch of seashore south of the city of Chennai. According to police officials this information has been passed on to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board ( tnpcb ). Officials say that this happened when oil tankers had cleaned out the holds …
Electric charges are known to come in integral multiples of the smallest charge called electron. But in certain cases, these charges are also found in fractional units. Scientists in Israel and France have separately confirmed the quantum Hall effect. According to the law, when electrons are restricted to flow in …
a recent study indicates that the us has some of the longest-lived and the shortest-lived populations in the world. On one hand, Asian women in northern New Jersey have a life expectancy of 97.7 years, and on the other, Oglala Sioux men of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota …
a plant has been developed using grafting techniques that produces different kinds of brinjal, tomato and capsicum. Abdul Masfoor, an assistant horticulture officer in Hunsur taluk, Mysore, had been examining several pest-resistant plants. While studying various species of Solanaceae such as Solanum Torvum, Solanum Ferox, Solanum anguivi and Solanum viarum …
Lottery cash is to be switched into funding cancer treatment and other services traditionally funded from taxes. Tony Blair, the UK prime minister, said the lottery cash would be used to bring cancer screening services up to the best in the world.
The UK biotechnology sector received a boost with the news that Chiroscience, one of its more successsful members, had discovered the gene that controls the human autoimmune system. If the discovery can be developed into treatments, it might be applicable to a range of diseases, from cancer to diabetes and …
The largest international charity operating in North Korea announced that it was pulling out because the Communist government had refused to give the charity access to a large population of malnourished and ailing children. The move, rare for an international organization, underscored the growing problem that Western aid agencies are …
Human physiology never crease to baffle. In a curious case of genetic disorder , over 60 persons of the same lineage in Madanayakanahalli, have "webbed" hands. Each person has more than five fingers most of them joined by skin. But the villagers see the deformity, which has manifested itself in …
"India will soon be squeezed to the last drop if water is not captured where it falls." This is the option of water managers and academicians in the field of water planning. The Centre for Science and Environment will be organising a three-day conference on the potential of water harvesting …
rather slow on health : Lovers of fast food beware| All the hasty and tasty food flooding the market as fast food is not safe. Rich in fats and other preservatives, it could lead to many a heart and digestive disorders and even cancer. As fast foods invade our homes …
Deploying the massive Keck telescope in Hawaii in a new planet search, a team of astronomers has detected two planets orbiting Sun-like stars, bringing to 12 the number of distant worlds discovred beyond our solar system.One of the new discoveries, a Jupiter-sized sphere that most likely apepars deep blue-violet, barely …
The Japanese government has finally capitulated to foreign pressure, or gaiatsu, and Tuesday announced it is revising regulations on allowable vehicle exhaust emissions. The new rules are to take effect in the autumn of 2000. When the current standard on pollutant emissions was established in 1978, it was the strongest …
A safe and eco-friendly mosquito coil using only plant-based materials, has been developed by the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore, as an alternative to the synthetic pesticide-based products available in the market. The synthetic compounds used in mosquito repellent formulations cause headaches, nausea and other side effects. In …
