Getting to the bottom of back pain
A new study by Jeffrey Lotz, director of the Orthopedic Bioengineerig Laboratory, and colleagues at the University of Calgary suggests the culprit to back pain is often gradual, long-term damage. By
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Oral cholera vaccine
An indigeneous genetically engineered cholera vaccine for human trials has been cleared recently by the D Rug Controller of India. The vaccine is based on a recombinant strain of Vibrio cholerae,
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Unicef report highlights children's plight
One third of children or 40 million born each year in the world are at risk of being deprived of their rights because they are not registered at birth, Unicef's 1998 report "The Progress of Nations'
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'Delhi children have high level of lead in blood'
Sixty-four per cent of Delhi schoolchildren have high level of lead in their blood stream, above the safe permissible limits. This was stated by pediatrician, Dr Veena Kalra of the All India
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Lecture on climate change implications
The impact of health in developing countries due to climatic changes was projected to be of alarming proportions, and it was important to bear in mind that environmental consequences, particularly in
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10% Indians prone to heart attacks
Coronary artery disease that reduces blood supply to the heart muscle and can lead to heart attacks is more widespread in the Indian subcontinent than other regions, says a report. South Asians in
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Computers net will respond to your voice
Web sites that will react to spoken requests are set to be launhced within a year. Research at IBM's Watson laboratories in New York will allow Internet users to ask sites questions rather than
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Fresh interface soon with scientists on eco issues
A new interface with scientists on environment related issues is in the offing in the Third World as part of the latest initiative of the Global Environment Facility. Starting such an interaction
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Pollution reduces man's reproductive health
Indian males seem to be growing less virile. According to a recent study by the Institute of Research in Reproduction (IRR), Mumbai, less than 30 per cent of men of the representive sample for Indian
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LDF to seek closure of sandal units
Kerala State Committee of the ruling Left Democractic Front (LDF) has decided in principle to close down the sandal oil extraction units functioning mainly on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border in Palakkad
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Evacuation order lifted as rains douse firs in Florida
Some 40,000 north eastern Florida residents, the last of the fire evacuees, were allowed to return home on Monday as firefighters gained the upper hand over devastating
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Rare species of pangolin found
A rare species of pangolin was found by the villagers near a railway track at Onda in Khamarberia of Bankura district in West
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Taiga! taiga! burning bright
All the reasons for preservation of world's tropical rainforests also apply to Russia's endless conifers. So do most of the reasons for destroying them. Many of those conifers, however, might yet be
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Claim on forest cover debunked
Contrary to earlier officials, Maharashtra does not have 21 per cent of its land under forest cover. It is an abysmally low nine per cent. "The situation in Maharashtra is much worse. Although it
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Water-table and crop pattern
In order to meet the problem of rising and falling water-table in Haryana, scientists at CCS Haryana Agricultural University have come out with various suggesions for farmers . They have suggested a
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Longer life for all in 21st century
WHO : Life in the twenty-first century should be healthier and longer for more people than ever before, according to a report released by the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) . The World Health
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Centre to raise forest Bn
The Union MInister of Environment & Forests, Mr Suresh P Prabhu has requested the Union Home Minister, Mr L K Advani to allocate at least one more battlion to the Government of battlion to the
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City faces eco-threats, say experts
The city faces serious ecological threats if further urbanisation is allowed in and around Calcutta, experts feel. In a recent seminar organised by the Institute of Applied
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Maharashtra chalks out plan to manage disasters
The Maharashtra government yesterday unveiled a Rs 50-crore disaster mangement plan at a three-day international seminar. A comprehensive multi-hazard disaster management plan for the state was one
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A novel venture in commercial fish farming
Despite all the odds, two enterprising youths of the city took a novel venture so as to make Assam self-sufficient in fish production and thus to check the drainage of a major chunk of the resources