Insurers too, swoon over pill
Fearing huge payouts to millions of American men, several large insurers are adopting strict reimbursement policies for Viagra, Pfizer's new pill for impotence, requring proof of a medical cause for
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Way paved for US approval of heart drug designed specifically for blacks
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued an "approvability" letter for a heart failure drug designed specifically for black people, the agency's first formal recognition that different ethnic
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Budget hits AIDS programme
The lowering of fund allocation to the AIDS control programme in the Union Budget reflects a "lack of vision" since India has over eight million HIV infected people, according to the Indian Health
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2 forest projects cleared for TN
The Centre has cleared two major forest conservation projects - Eastern Ghat Development Project - for Tamil Nadu under the Ninth Five Year Plan, according to Mr. R. Annamalai,Conservator of Forests,
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Chief vet plays down hopes for swift end to foot-and-mouth
The UK government sought to play down expectations that the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease would peak when it's chief veterinary officer admitted that it would continue for a "long
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Afghan death toll crosses 4,500
The death toll from the earthquake in north-east Afghanistan has risen to more than 4,500 the French aid agency 'Acted' said on Tuesday, quoting local officials.Acted said around 2,340 people had
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Illegal felling of teak trees alleged
The other day a team of journalists accompanied by district collector, Mr Sanjhay Bandopadhyaya went to Patalkot in connection with village contact drive and detected many cases of cutting of teak
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Crackdown on firms erring on pollution norms
In a major crackdown, the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has come down heavily on half-a-dozen large private sector companies and state-owned cooperative sugar mills in the last
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Environmentally friendly fungicides
Research by the Scottish Agricultural College may lead to an environmentally friendly alternative to fungicides. The work centers on "film-forming polymers" which form a barrier on the surface of the
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Sale of Viagra receives green light
The sale of Viagra , a new drug for male impotence, will be allowed despite reported deaths linked to its side effects. Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng said the registration of the drug would not
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Innovations
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are bioengineering spinach's photosynthesis centers, adapting them to serve as ultratiny photodiodes. If all goes well, these devices will use photons to
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Future purrrrfect?
In a laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, scientists are working on an apparently harmless jumble of computerised cells so helpless that it will depend on its Australian creator for survival - but that
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Prions may offer answers to mad-cow species jump
Scientists have found some intriguing clues that could help shed light on how mysterious proteins called prions can jump between species and lead to brain destroying disorders. The study was done by
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Private Viagra imports thrust foreign drugs into limelight
Despite the risks involved in the practice, an increasing number of people are privately importing foreign drugs that have yet to gain official approval in Japan. The latest product to come into the
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Animal farms face closure
Various projects of the Gurdaspur Animal Husbandry Department in the district are facing closure one after the
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Soyabean germplasm to be used in rotation
Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is getting some soyabean germplasm from Mexico as an alternative to rice crop as the rice-wheat rotation in Punjab has reportedly created many soil health and
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Russia offers ABM to India
Russia has offered India a unique anti-ballistic missile system capable of fully eliminating the threat posed by Pakistan's Ghauri missiles to the country's vital installaitons, major cities and
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Tayal's appointment as HSPCB administrator hailed
Industry has hailed the Haryana Government's decision to dissolve the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) and instead appointing the Industry Commissioner, Mr M L Tayal, as its
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New cure for backaches
A new procedure "spinal stimulator implant" to cure backache has been performed on a 45-year-old patient from Mauritius at the Apollo hospital in Hyderabad.A team of doctors, headed by Dr Rajsunder
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2.5 lakh TB patients in Haryana
The National Tuberculosis Association has allotted a project to the district TB centre to study the "incidence of HIV positive among TB cases." This centre has recently concluded a study of