Experts for alternative to chicken pox vaccine
Leading paediatricians of the city are deliberating on ways to control chicken pox. Dr Ashok Dutta, professor and Head of Department of Paediatrics at Kalavati Saran Hospital, ruled out its inclusion
Leading paediatricians of the city are deliberating on ways to control chicken pox. Dr Ashok Dutta, professor and Head of Department of Paediatrics at Kalavati Saran Hospital, ruled out its inclusion
Britain's leading researchers warned that the UK death rate from new variant CJD - linked BSE, seems to be increasing. Writing in Lancet, doctors from the National CJD Surveillance Unit in Edinburg
A National referral Centre for Lead Poisoning in India (NRCLPI), the first of its kind in the country, was launched in Bangalore today. The centre, jointly set up by St John's National Academy of
Novo Nordisk Limited, one of the leading manufacturers of insulin, is organising a 'Run for Diabetes' in the City on November 13 on the occasion of World Diabetes Day. The run is organised on the
Three leading hotel groups, the Indian Hotels, East Indian Hotels and Leela Ventures are planning to set up five star hotels in Kerala. Beverages firm Coca- Cola is also exploring possibilities to
Blood levels of lead below current federal and international guidelines of 10 micrograms per deciliter produce a surprisingly large 7.4-point drop in IQ, a US team reports in New England Journal of
in the wake of a large number of complaints over the quality of blood supplied by the government and private blood banks for transfusion, a ban will be issued on professional blood donation from
Lobbies use the old trick
In a firm step towards checking tobacco use, on May 29 the who issued its strongest policy recommendations. It urged all countries to ban smoking at indoor workplaces and public buildings. It asked
The government turns a Nelson s eye while the construction sector makes hay on phosphogypsum, a carcinogenic byproduct of the fertiliser industry
Are mobile phones safe?
More power will mean more pollution, say participants at a recently held seminar in Lucknow
ACHUAR Indian communities in northern Peru forests called off their 15-day-long protest after the government and the Argentine oil drilling firm, Pluspetrol Norte, signed an agreement to stop dumping
A leading British hospital has introduced internet technology that could revolutionise the way patients are diagnosed and treated. The system installed by Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital in London
Bangladesh's leading specialist doctors urged the people not to be panicky over the spread of dengue, saying the fever was not at the epidemic level. Speaking at a press conference in Dhaka, they
Jeevan, the leading voluntary blood bank in the city, has become the country's first ISO certified blood bank. The ISO 9002 certification came on the fourth anniversary of Jeevan which changed the
Inadequate sleep could lead to gastric ulcers and even cancer, according to the findings of researchers at the University of Hong Kong. The two-year study led by Dr. Marcel Koo Wing-Leung at the
Leading Indian, Bangladeshi and American scientists attended a conference here to devise ways to deal with what many consider to be the largest poisoning in human history - the arsenic-filled water
A leading Indo-Canadian expert on metal-caused ailments says the extensive arsenic ground water contaminaiton in West Bebgal is the worst crisis of its kind he has ever seen. Dr Bidudhendra Sarkar,
The FBI was on Monday leading a probe into the second case of anthrax near West Palm Beach (Florida) as hundreds of the affected men's colleagues were being tested for exposure to the deadly disease.