The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has obtained permission for “restricted use in public health emergency” of two second-line HIV medications for use against the novel coronavirus (nCoV).
About 10 per cent of SARS survivors appear to be left with lung damage that renders them unable to perform routine tasks without struggling for breath, doctors in Hong Kong reported. The report comes
Germany authorities have slaughtered 81,000 chickens to try to stop an outbreak of avian flu, sources said. A spokesman for the Environment Minsitry said 75,000 birds were slaughtered within a three
At the end of the first phase of her Parivartan Yatra in Rajasthan, BJP state president Vasundhara Raje lashed out against the Ashok Gehlot government, saying it had failed to provide drought relief.
A Beijing health official said it was not known where up to 60 per cent of new confirmed SARS cases received by hospitals in the Chinese capital were coming from.
The National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) at Pune, during low-budget exploratory lab time, has found an eco-friendly non-toxic way to bio-degrade high volume, commonly used plastics like shopping bags,
Chinese villagers, worried about SARS, dumped rotten fish on cars carrying visitors from Beijing while Canada isolated 30 people suspected to be infected by the virus. The government said five new
The tendency of most state governments has been to shy away from the dirty word
A forecast by the US-based International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) says that, going by climatic indications, the monsoon will arrive in time and bring good rains this year. The
By the end of the year, pregnant women in the country are likely to have the option of taking a
In the later part of last year, there were warnings that as many as 38 million were threatened by starvation in Africa. However, the fast deteriorating situation in at least three Asian
