Plan to upgrade rural dispensaries
On the pattern of the Punjab Health Systems Corporation, the state government has been drawing up a project for improving health services in rural dispensaries.
Critical case
Needed medicines are hard to find, and state-of-the-art treatment is rare: Cuba's health system, the jewel of Castro's revolution and pride of the Third World, is in grave condition. In many ways, it is still the envy of the developing world: offering free health care to all citizens as a …
New AIDS victim
There is an emerging AIDS catastrophe in Cambodia unilike any seen outside sub-Saharan Africa. Cambodia has already surpassed Thailand as Asia's most infected country, and in less than half the time it took Thailand to get there. The rate of HIV in pregnant women is about 2.6 percent. The World …
Seeds of the future
The fourth conference of Parties of the Biodiversity Convention has taken several lanmark decisions, and some of them have major implications for India .
Brain regions idenified that influence what we remember or forget
Neuroscientiststs at Stanford and Harvard have been able to show that neural activity in certain brain regions predicts what experiences will be remembered later. The study at Stanford involved memory for scenic photos while the study at Harvard involved memory for words. Both are reported in the Aug 21 issue …
New surgical method to save gangrenous limbs
The Tagore Heart Care and Research Centre, Jalandhar, claims to have developed a new surgical technique to save gangrenous limbs. In a unique operation, a team of cardithoracic surgeons used the radial artery from the left arm to bypass the blocked part of the popliteal artery in the patients right …
Mosquito blitz as dengue cases rise
The battle against mosquitoes is being stepped up in Hong Kong after a sharp rise in the number of cases of dengue fever spread by the insects. Five cases were notified in 1996 and 10 last year, but by the end of July this year, eight had already been identified. …
Another cholera case was confirmed yesterday
The latest victim is a 65-year-old woman from Kowloon City who started suffering diarrhoea on August 8. She spent three days at Queen Elizabeth Hospital before moving to Princess Margaret Hospital, where she is now in a satisfactory condition. Six cholera victims have been identified in 15 days in Hong …
Govt to intensify raids on mustard oil dealers
As many as 75 persons have been admitted to Government hospitals after consuming adulterated mustard oil in different parts of the city. All of them complained of swelling in the limbs, face, vomiting and lose motions, all symptoms of the illness better known as epidemic dropsy. Raids have also been …
A book on ways to improve health of poor
The Delhi Mayor, Mr. Yog Dhyan Ahuja, released a book, "Environmental Scenario of Delhi Slums" authored by Sabir Ali as part of a research work sponsored by the Council for Social Development. The book analyses various factors responsible for the deterioration of the environment and suggests workable methods for the …
Rs 10,000 for pollution-free autos
Nearly 50,000 commercial vehicles that are older than 15 years need not be phased out on October 2, if the new technology offered to the Government by a private firm (G&T; Yugo Tech, with partners in Canada and Netherlands) is adopted.
Experts eats his words on gene-modified food
The scientist who caused a stir by announcing that rats fed on genetically modified potatoes suffered health problems, has now been dismissed from his job at one of Britain's premier research institutes for presenting "misleading information". Prof. Arpad Pusztai, a respected scientist, was retired prematurely from the Rowan Research Institute …
A new drug to fight depression
Scientists may have stumbled onto a new way to treat depression:an experimental drug that targets a mysterious brain chemical that doctors did not know was at work in mental disorders. Merck & Co.'s drug, the subject of an account published in Science, works on a chemical pathway that differs from …
A frustrating quest for a frozen virus
Digging in a cemetery on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, Norway, medical scientists found the seven coffins they were looking for, but the coffins were not what they wanted to find. They had hoped they would be six feet deep, in permafrost, where the bodies would still be frozen and …
One per cent Indians infected with HIV
Govt : One out of every hundred persons is infected with HIV, admits the Union government, on the basis of recent country wide surveys. This indicates a serious spread of AIDS in this country. "The infection rate has touched one per cent. Beyond this, the spread is extremely fast," says …
Contaminated groundwater poses threat to residents.
Several Shahdara residents have been consuming water laced with heavy metals and toxic compounds, while Delhiites living in some southern part of the city are exposed to the danger of nitrate excess. This, says the Central Ground Water Authority, is because a majority of Delhiites in these areas depend on …
The story so far ... Silicone breast implants
The Sydney law firm Cashman and Partners will continue to battle the implant manufacturer Dow Corning in the US Bankruptcy Court despite an in-principle agreement by Dow Corning to pay $66.5 million to 4300 Australian and New Zealand claimants, a deal signed by the Melbourne law firm Slater and Gordon.
Students meet PM for anti-tobacco drive
A memorandum on a need for a governmental ban on all forms of tobacco advertisements, including sport sponsorship was presented to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today.The memorandum signed by nearly 25,000 school students belonging to various public and governemnt schools appealed to initiate measures to usher in a tobacco-free …
