Most children in Gauteng have lead poisoning - report
More than 60% of Gauteng children have unacceptable blood-lead levels in their systems, exceeding the US levels at which health workers would be legally required to take action. Lowered
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Study clears two vaccines of any long-lasting harm
Although two widely used vaccines can make children run fevers that in rare cases may cause seizures, the seizures do not lead to lasting problems, researchers are reporting today in the largest
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Fears over coercive policies
The Government of India today appears to be reaffirming its faith in coercive methods by formulating anti-people population policies leading to fears that attempts are being made to push coercive
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Scientists claim malaria resistance breakthrough
Scientists said this week they have made a breakthrough in understanding how malaria develops resistance to drugs, a finding that could lead to the production of new medications to tackle the deadly
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Health freaks turn to organic food
The term 'organic' is used for food in growing which chemical pesticides or fungicides have not been used. Since such farming methods lead to relatively low yields, these farm products have a higher
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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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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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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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Proteasome inhibition for treatment of leishmaniasis, Chagas disease and sleeping sickness
<p>Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness affect 20 million people worldwide and lead to more than 50,000 deaths annually. The diseases are caused by infection with the kinetoplastid parasites
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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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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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GREEN REMEDIES
The status of health can be improved with proper environment management
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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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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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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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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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Shoring up
Concern over contaminant in Washington s water
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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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Global malaria burden and achieving universal coverage of interventions: a glimpse on progress and impact
<p> Malaria continues to remain a serious public health problem in many tropical and sub-tropical countries of the World with around 225 million cases and near one million deaths every year causing
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Does access to improved sanitation reduce childhood diarrhea in rural India?
Almost nine million children under 5 years of age die every year. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading cause of under-five mortality in developing countries. About one out of five deaths is