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AYURVEDIC CONCEPT: The Himalayan Drug Company (HDC) has launched its nternational range of ayurvedic health and personal care products in India. The product is branded as ayurvedic Concept'.
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UNITED NATIONS
The world's leading environmental thinkers drawn from government, business and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have created a blueprint for future joint action to foster global environmental
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EU regulation bans six toxic chemicals in household gadgets
EU frames stringent rules against toxic chemicals
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Sleuthing for carcinogens
YET another clue has been found which might help unravel the mystery surrounding cancer. Three chemists, working at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, us, have discovered how nitrosamines --
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In the future...
...only stringent and serious measures can control further rise in pollution
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Safe food?
The draft bill promises to be transparent. Yet, the Food Authority has a lot of discretion in this respect
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Confining cancer
Scientists have found a gene that checks the spread of prostate cancer to other parts of the body
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The battle continues...
it is showdown time once again in Europe as uk channelises efforts towards reneging its promise of culling more than 125,000 cattle heads, touted as the only measure to reduce the risk of
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Path of destruction
a large tract of central America's remaining rainforest is under threat from a road in the remote south of Belize. The construction of the road might lead to the clearing of the entire forest
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X ray overdose
Operators of X-ray machines and patients in India may be vulnerable to unnecessary radiation overexposure. This was revealed by A Gopalakrishnan, chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
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Endangered
THE Asian tigers are imperilled; the booming economies of Asia are facing imminent collapse due to the threat of an AIDS epidemic. Medical experts, academics and social workers attending the
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Making space for emissions
What does the ubiquitous auto rickshaw and the plush aeroplane have in common, other than getting us from one place to another? The auto rickshaw, as India s largest manufacturer Rahul Bajaj will
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Oil spoils
That, too, for very long
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Devil in the diesel
People living in polluted and already unhealthy cities like Delhi must remember that this diesel boom will only make breathing more difficult
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Brave attempt at a health policy
At the end of day, the biggest <br>problem is the lack of public pressure.<br>Indian people think very little about<br> their health till they fall ill <br>
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Deadly slip up
An adulterated cooking medium sparks off panic in India, but the government remains clueless on how to deal with the crisis
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Mystique of metal therapy
Incredible though it may seem, it is being claimed that cancer and multiple sclerosis, the two deadly diseases that have often eluded cure, can be successfully treated with Rasayan Shastra or metal therapy. But to the practitioner of modem medicihe,
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Cure sans fear
Hormone replacement therapy has become safer than before
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Under siege
India, seen as a dumpyard by the developed countries for toxic wastes, is under pressure not to ratify the Basel Ban
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Theory banged
Big Bang,the widely accepted theory an cosmological observations, is in for trouble