Premature babies and pollution
A study by St Stephen Hospital and AIIMS revealed that there is a link between the birth of premature babies and high pollution levels, leading to risk of having low birth weight (LBW) babies, Lok
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Environmentalist quits Olympics ethics panel over Dow's Bhopal links
‘Games organisers toeing company line' There were fresh calls on Thursday for an independent inquiry into Dow Chemical's controversial sponsorship of the London Olympics after Meredith Alexander, a leading environmentalist, resigned from the Games' ethics committee — the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 — protesting against Dow's links with the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and accusing the organisers of “toeing” the company's line.
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Eradicating TB in India
India bears the largest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The TB prevention and control landscape in India is fraught with challenges at multiple levels, including low risk perception, lack of
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'Killer dust' threat looms over Marwan despite protests
<p>Shoumojit Banerjee Proposed asbestos project could lead to a ‘Turner & Newall' epidemic Marwan (Muzaffarpur): There is a spectre over the verdant fields of Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, hitherto suppressed by the clamour and euphoria of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's massive electoral mandate.
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Blood cells from stem cells
Scientists have demonstrated that undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells can be turned into blood cells. The work, conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, demonstrates that
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Indian drugs may get safe EU passage
Netherlands Takes Lead After India Threatens To Drag EU To WTO Amiti Sen NEW DELHI PHARMA exports from India are likely to be promised safe passage by the European Union after India took up the issue following seizure of two consignments while in transit through the region.
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Assessing the health impact of water quality interventions in low-income settings: Concerns associated with blinded trials and the need for objective outcomes
<p>A dramatic disparity between the results of blinded versus open trial designs has raised questions about the effectiveness of water quality interventions and other environmental interventions to prevent
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From the animal kingdom
Monkeypox is an enzootic disease (prevalent in animals of a particular area) that circulates in monkeys in the rainforests of central and western Africa. It was previously believed that the virus
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GREEN REMEDIES
The status of health can be improved with proper environment management
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Global tuberculosis report 2018
<p>India accounted for 27 per cent of the 10 million people who developed tuberculosis in 2017, the highest among the top 30 high TB burden countries in the world, according to this WHO report</p>
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Changing landscape of acute encephalitis syndrome in India: A systematic review
<p>Seasonal outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) occur with striking regularity in India and lead to substantial mortality. Several viruses, endemic in many parts of India, account for AES. Although
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Shifting to safety
four villages affected by pollution emanating from the Hindustan Zinc Limited ( hzl ) in Gujuwaka in Visakhapatnam, will be shifted to a safer place if the government implements the
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2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index (GGTTI)
Centre for Science and Environment ranks 19th amongst top 70 thinktanks on environment in 2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index (GGTTI).
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Chemical Industry, Officials To Work For More Safety
Chemicals producers and governments agreed on Friday to step up efforts to push for greater safety in chemicals from lead in paint to microscopic substances. But non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said unless the industry and governments come up with more money, agreed targets for cleaning up chemicals by 2020 were unlikely to be met.
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Shoring up
Concern over contaminant in Washington s water
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Mixed picture on human development West Bengal releases three District Human Development Reports: Press Release
This press release by UNDP provides an in-depth study of three districts in the Indian state of West Bengal, namely, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and Uttar Dinajpur. The study reveals that where we live can determine our well-being as there are wide variations in human development between districts and also between rural & urban populations.
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Some Carbon Nanotubes Could Pose Health Risk - Study
Certain kinds of carbon nanotubes -- hailed as a new "wonder" material -- behave like asbestos and could lead to a lung cancer that appears decades after exposure, an international team of researchers said on Tuesday. The findings suggest that the lightweight building block, 100 times stronger than steel and used in a number of everyday products, could be dangerous if inhaled in sufficient quantities, the team wrote in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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Indian pharma emerges big player in Japan
PB Jayakumar / Mumbai May 2, 2009, 0:14 IST Tokyo's policy push for generics an added draw. Leading Indian drug makers such as Ranbaxy, Lupin, Zydus Cadila and Dishman, which forayed into Japan in the past three years, have emerged as important players in the generic or copycat drug business of patented medicines in that market, the second largest in the world.
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SC to hear petition against ban on gutka
New Delhi The Supreme Court has transferred to itself a petition filed by a leading chewing tobacco manufacturer against the ban on sale of gutka and paan masala. Gutka manufacturers have moved various high courts questioning the constitutional validity of the notifications issued by various state government. The manufacturers are insisting that gutka cannot be treated and regulated as ‘food’ as it has “no nutritional value” and highlight the “discriminatory nature” of the ban that has brought their business to a “complete halt”.
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Braindeath
Another viral maniac has claimed 200 lives -- including those of 75 children below the age of 10 -- in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. The state's health department officials of suspect that