AIDS, Malaria major health concerns in NE
The Union Minister of State and Family Welfare, Sri Dalit Ezhilmalai expressed concern that malaria and AIDS have emerged as the major health concerns in the North Eastern states and called upon the state governments of the region to invest more funds for bridging the glaring gaps in the primary …
Diesel Zen offers high-fuel economy
The much awaited diesel version of Maruti Zen, due to launch today, is a highly fuel-efficient car. If driven at a steady speed of 50 kilometres per hour, the car is expected to give a fuel economy of around 32 kilometres to a litre.
FDA approves debated laser treatment for chest pain sufferers
The Food and Drug Administration approved a radical and controversial treatment for crippling chest pain: a laser that zaps as many as 40 tiny holes into the heart itself. The heart laser is only for the small proportion of heart patients who have a debilitating type of chest pain called …
Anti-cataract campaign next month
The Delhi Government will launch the fourth phase of the ongoing cataract free campaign from September 1. The campaign was launched by the health department in 1995.
Parkinson's disease clinic set up in Mumbai
A Parkison's disease clinic has been set up at the Bombay hospital for offering surgical management for the disease. The neurosurgeons are using a new technique for treatment of advanced stages of the disease.
Spread of virus alarms doctors
The often-fatal hepatitis C virus is running rampant through some sections of the community, posing one of the greatest threats to public health in recent years in Australia. While Australian health authorities have had remarkable success in checking the spread of HIV among intravenous drug users, hepatitis C has slipped …
Action taken against 16 firms under Drug Act
The Drug Control Department has initiated punitive action against 16 pharmaceutical firms for manufacturing substandard drugs and violating various other sections of the Drug and Cosmetics Act of 1945. The samples of Becosules capsules, manufactured by Omni Bio-tech Drugs of Pune, for instance, were found to be of substandard quality …
A fresh shot at malaria?
With only meager support, scientists and international agencies are struggling to tame the malaria parasite that kills 2.7 million people a year-and is spreading. But there are some promising approaches : a report.
A gas chamber
A report prepared by the School of Environmental Studies discovered that factories in densely populated areas of Calcutta continue to use toxic chemicals in violation of laws.
Shortage hits AIIMS blood bank
An acute shortage of blood has hit the blood bank at the main hospital in AIIMS for the past few days. Blood has had to be requisitioned from the Red Cross and the CNC Blood Bank in AIIMS itself to tide over the shortage.
FDA approves new AIDS treatment
AIDs patients got an easier-to-swallow drug on Friday as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new once-a-day medicine that offers the first good alternative for patients who cannot take today's best AIDS treatment.
Researchrs say butter is as deadly as cigarettes
Butter, which is found in almost every pantry in the world, has been branded as deadly as cigarettes and should carry a similar health warning, researchers in New Zealand said on Saturday. The Auckland University medical researchers said butter is as dangerous to the human heart as cigarettes and want …
MCD challans 762 persons for lax dengue norms
Several senior government officials have been challaned by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for not adhering to norms suggested for prevention of dengue. The MCD has challanged a total of 762 persons for their failure to take measures for prevention of mosquito breeding.
Attention UNFPA
Norplant has been in use in Bangladesh since 1985. By 1992 it became a part of the government's family planning programme. It was meant to give protection from pregnancy for a period of five years. But in 1992, a study by the Unversity Research Corporation and Family Health International on …
Bacteria link found between heart disease and pneumonia
Scientists in the US have revealed "the strongest link yet" between heart diseases and a bacteria that causes pneumonia. A study, reported in Circulation, the Journal of the American Heart Association, provides new evidence about the relationship between the bacteria Chlamydia pneumoniae and heart disease, although it does not provide …
Clean air costs will fall on oil industry as well as carmakers
For carmakers and oil men, big numbers come with the job. But the massive estimates being bandied about as the cost of the European Union's plans to cut vehicle pollution from 2005 have left both - traditionally rival-industries fuming. Europe's carmakers say they will have to cough up about $60bn. …
In AIDS-torn Africa, desperate choices
The United Nations is struggling desperately to find a way to cope with Africa's AIDS epidemic. After long deliberations, UN AIDS officials announced that women infected with HIV should consider feeding formula instead of breast milk to their babies. Three million children in Africa have died from AIDS since the …
Science-based, unified approach needed to safeguard the nation's food supply
Outdated food safety laws and a fragmented federal structure serve as barriers to improving protection of the nations food supply from contamination and other hazards, according to a new congressionally mandated report from a committee of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, US.
U.S. team reports Korean starvation
An estimated 300,000 to 800,000 people are dying in North Korea each year from starvation or hunger related illnesses, a U.S. bipartisan team of congressional staffers said after a weeklong fact-finding trip in the isolated Communist country.
Your mother was right (again)
In a paper published in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Michael Murphy, a psychologist at Masschusetts General Hospital in Boston and his colleagues have proved that breakfast is good for you. The researchers found that kids who started eating significantly more breakfast (defined as increase of at least 20% …
