WHO executive body backs retaining smallpox stocks
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said its executive board backed delaying a 2002 deadline for destroying the world's remaining stocks of the smallpox virus to allow more research into vaccines.
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Arsenic detected over tube wells water in Bheramara
Arsenic beyond permissible limit was detected in water of over one thousand tube wells in six unions under Bheramara Upazila in
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French report sees little risk from GM sugar beet
Genetically modified sugar beet poses very little risk of contaminating other crops and so can be considered safe to grow on a wider basis, a French government advisory panel said in a report.
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Let's save our wildlife, PM tells CMs
With poachers upping the ante, smartening up their act and moving into national wildlife parks and reserves for the kill, the Union Government has unsheathed a long-range weapon it hasn't used for a
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100,000 forest acres could escape development
A new forest conservation company plans to buy 100,000 acres in Washington state to protect the tract from development. Evergreen Forest Trust and the Weyerhaeuser Company have agreed on terms for
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'Heart durbars' to spread disease awareness
Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI) will soon be organising Heart Durbars to spread awareness about heart diseases. These durbars will be based on the lines of Bijli and Lok Adalats HCFI executive
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Vivid insight provided into workings of the brain
One of the last frontiers of the unexplored left on earth, the living human brain, is yielding up its secrets to a new tool developed in Britain. The revolutionary development allows researchers to
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Vaccine research aids hopes
Efforts to develop an AIDS vaccine received a boost with research showing an experimental cold virus vaccine could control a virus similar to HIV in monkeys. Scientists at Harvard Medical School said
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SIL debuts electric, CNG, LPG 3 wheelers
The public sector three-wheeler major scooters India Ltd (SIL) launched the latest versions of country's first electric three-wheeler Vikram EV at the Auto Expo.
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Finding virus in wild chimp advances hunt for source of AIDS
Hunting for the origin of AIDS, researchers have found for the first time an H.I.V.-like virus in a chimpanzee in the wild - but in a different part of Africa than they had suspected.The finding was
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Hospital inquiry into salmonella deaths
Health officials in UK are investigating the deaths of three men during a salmonella outbreak in a Glasgow hospital. The bug infected four people on the men's medical ward at the Victoria infirmary
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Rs 350 crore for afforestation
Afforestation would be taken up in the Andhra Pradesh state on a massive scale with an investment of Rs 350 crore to be spent on seven lakh hectare of forest, said Minister for Forests Ch Ayyanna
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Environment Agency emphasises its involvement in carcass disposal
Following a number of complaints regarding the disposal of carcasses of livestock slaughtered in the attempt to eradicate foot and mouth disease, the UK Environment Agency has emphasised that it is
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52% bottled water unfit: report
Over 52 per cent of the branded and bottled mineral water available in the market is unsafe for human consumption, a laboratory analysis of the federal government revealed. "Only 10 out 21 brands
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Exporters union rules out mad cow disease in India
The All India Meat & Livestock Exporters Association (AIMLEA) has ruled out fears of existence of the dreaded mad cow disease in
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Haryana expands TB programme
Seven more districts in Haryana, namely Rewari, Mohindergarh Karnal, Panipat, Jhajjar, Rohtak and Bhiwani, have been included for coverage under the revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme by
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Towards a 'healthy' parliament
The two-day Students' Parliament on Health is part of a unique initiative of the "Health Related Information Dissemination Among Youth" (HRIDAY) that is working among school students of Delhi since
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No delay in tackling mystery disease : minister
West Bengal health minister, Mr Partha Dey, claimed that there had been no delay in tackling the mystery disease which struck Siliguri recently. He slammed the media for falsely portraying an exodus
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Beyond the ban
The skewed child sex ratio, specifically in the Haryana-Punjab belt, as revealed in early census estimates, has caused wide-spread disquiet in both states. Since the trend clearly points to rampant
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Kerala tribe's cure bags India's first patent
In a significant development capable of changing general perceptions and prognosis for adivasi medicine in the globalisation era, the national patent office in New Delhi has granted India's first