<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Chandrakant Pandav</font></font> , additional professor, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, is a leading member of the International Council for Control for Iodine Defici
Japan's leading car maker, Toyota Motor Corp., has a new product : It's a super tree with the capacity to absorb 30% more toxic gases from smog than its regular botanical cousin. Toyota is into trees
A major new report released by a commission of global leaders finds that governments and businesses can now improve economic growth and reduce their carbon emissions together. Rapid technological innovation
The overarching objective to be achieved through this policy is to provide for and promote a supportive environment for the vast mass of urban street vendors to carry out their vocation while at the same time ensuring theat their vending activities do not lead to overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in public spaces and streets.
MUMBAI: Officials of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have seized huge stocks of three leading brands of energy drinks, collectively worth around Rs 2.64 crore, from Mumbai and Pune. The move comes close on the heels of recent amendments to the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. Most of these drinks are sold in pubs and bars.
Leading pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc has entered into a partnership with Ahmedabad-based Claris Lifesciences Ltd to commercialise sterile injectible drugs that are off-patent and have lost exclusivity in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. These drugs cover a range of therapeutic areas, including anti-infectives, antibiotics and other critical care products.
VISITORS can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields. In less than five years, the Zhengzhou Comprehensive Waste Treatment Landfill has overwhelmed this otherwise pristine village of about 1,000 people.
study: Caffeine in colas makes no difference to person's taste buds but can be mildly addictive, warns a leading medical institute that has contested claims of soft drink manufacturers that they add
New Zealand scientists said recently they were synthesising a protein produced by mussels in the hope that it will lead to the closing of human wounds without stitches. The protein forms the strong
US scientists have discovered genetic fingerprints in anthrax bacteria that could lead to the perpetrator of anthrax attacks that killed five people in the US.
The Australian Democrats have urged the Federal Government to follow the United States' lead and force mobile phone makers to provide information on emission levels.Democrats telecommunications
Some 2.5 million Malaysians are suffering from hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver which could lead to cirrhosis and cancer, Malaysian Liver Foundation president Datuk Dr Ismail Merican said
Calcium channel blocker drugs used to control high blood pressure and angina may cause depression and lead to suicide, Swedish doctors warn. Dr. Arne Melander and colleagues at Malmo University
The failure and negligence of jail doctors to diagnose diseases among undertrials in jails have lead to the death of at least 18 prisoners in last five months in
A national cancer centre should be established to lead the fight against the killer disease and to tackle a critical shortage of health professionals and equipment, a top-level report to the
Scientists have come across a gene that helps in artery development. According to scientists, the gene also leads a new insight into the development signals that distinguish arteries form veins. Till
This paper seeks to provide an overview of the complex and dynamic relationship between nutrition and growth, examine how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes, and identify the factors that influence the magnitude of this relationship.
Punjab may be flopping on fronts like health, information technology but its flavoured Verka lassi, desi ghee,ice-cream, sweetened milk, panjiri, paneer, curd, and kheer are doing very well in the national and international market. Milkfed, state's leading cooperative, known for Verka brand in and outside the country has achieved 64 per cent growth in the sale of lassi, 37 per cent in sweetened flavoured milk, 31 per cent in ghee, 21 per cent in ice cream, 70 per cent in kheer and 39 per cent in paneer last year. Desi ghee and lassi have been traditionally strong area of Punjab.
Two new large studies are likely to upset medial dogma on treating atrial fibrillation, a common irregularity of the heartbeat that can lead to strokes and other life-threatening complications.The
A study of a Utah family of "morning lark" snoozers has led to discovery of the first human gene that controls the sleep cycle. The finding could lead to new treatments for jet lag, insomnia and
