Vehicle boom leads to environment pollution
Rush hour gridlocks, haphazard parking of vehicles on the roadsides, ever-increasing levels of hazardous air pollution and traffic bottlenecks. All this and more are a mundane sight for any commuter, who
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48% Mumbaikars at risk of heart attacks
Forty-eight per cent of Mumbaikars face the risk of heart attacks because of obesity, more than 50% have unhealthy cholesterol levels while around 64% lead a sedentary life and avoid exercise. These
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Lifestyle changes, urbanization trigger skin allergy among kids
BHOPAL: Rapid urbanization and change in lifestyle are leading to a rise in cases of itchy, flaky rashes on kids' skin, experts said. Called paediatric atopic dermatitis (PAD), skin ailment affects one
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Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules 2018 (Development of Emission Standards for SO2 & NOx for Lime Kiln, Ceramic, Foundry, Glass and Reheating Furnaces
The Union Environment Ministry has set emission standards for industries where nitrogen and sulphur oxides are generated as these gases are leading to increase in air pollution and affecting human health.
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What’s in your water? Flint and beyond: analysis of EPA data reveals widespread lead crisis potentially affecting millions of Americans
New report says Flint water crisis is not an anomaly, as analysis reveals 5,363 water systems – providing drinking water to 18 million – breached federal laws. More than 18 million Americans are served
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Scaling up nutrition in the Arab Republic of Egypt: investing in a healthy future
Malnutrition is a huge burden on the Arab Republic of Egypt's economy. Undernutrition--manifested by poor linear growth (stunting), wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies in children, and by anemia among
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Groundwater resources and management challenges in Sri Lanka–an overview
This paper gives an overview of the geophysico-chemical groundwater conditions in Sri Lanka and the associated contemporary management challenges. Groundwater is extensively used in Sri Lanka today, for
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Unsafe food items found in super market
A large stock of food items unfit for human consumption have been recovered from two leading super markets in Anuradhapura. (Sri Lanka). Public Health Inspector from the Provincial Health Services
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How smoking causes cancer
Researchers discover the cellular reactions that trigger tumours
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Life saving drugs to cost less
Consumers could well heave a sigh a relief with the Finance Ministry's decision to cut customs duty of specified life saving bulk drugs as this could lead to prices coming down. The Government
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Monsanto readies health food range
Monsanto, the $5.5-billion US agro-chemical giant, is set to release a slew of second-generation products that will impact consumers in terms of health and nutrition and help them lead a healthier
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New effort to ease fears over water quality
Beijing's tap water will not lead to the formation of stones in an organ or duct of the human body, known as lithiasis, an official said, in the latest effort to ease public doubts about water quality.
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Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity
Neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments, affect millions of children worldwide, and some diagnoses seem to
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National Health Profile (NHP) of India 2015
<p>As per National Health Profile 2015, there will be 19 percent increase in cancer among men by 2020 with mouth cancer registering the highest spike and a 23 percent increase among women with gall bladder cancer showing the sharpest increase. The cancer incidence in men will rise from the current 522164 to 622203 in 2020 warns this report released by J.P Nadda, the Union Minister for Health on Sep 22, 2015.</p>
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Reduction of national emissions of atmospheric pollutants
Air pollution travels over long distances and over national boundaries having a negative impact on human health. In order to limit air pollution which is also responsible for acidification, eutrophication
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Sugar may be the new cholesterol!
Ahmedabad: Leading cardiologists from across India debated how 'sugar might be the new cholesterol' for people at risk of heart disease, as any excess amount consumed is converted to fat! Dr G R Kane,
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Evaluating drug resistance in HIV positive people
R. PRASAD The presence of drug resistant strains may be found even in HIV infected people who have never been on antiretroviral drugs Drug resistance may arise even when there is good compliance as the virus keeps mutating Of the 60 patients tested so far in a hospital in Chennai, 45 failed for the first-line drugs Transmitted resistance: In a study conducted at YRG Care, Chennai, of the 50 volunteers who had never been on antiretroviral drugs, about 14 per cent were found to have viruses with mutations that may lead to drug resistance.
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U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu
Responding to what some health officials feared could be the leading edge of a global pandemic emerging from Mexico, American health officials declared a public health emergency on Sunday as 20 cases of swine flu were confirmed in this country, including eight in New York City.
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Solar cells get clean bill of health
Solar cells generate electricity from sunlight without producing' pollution, but some environmentalists have been concerned about the potential negative impact of this photovoltaic technology. This is because the manufacture of solar cells involves toxic metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium and produces carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming. However, the first comprehensive study of the pollutants produced during the manufacture of solar cells gives them a reassuringly clean bill of health. Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York report that photovoltaic cells produce far fewer air pollutants than conventional fossil fuel technologies when manufacturing is fully accounted for. The study will appear next month in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, Vasilis Fthenakis and colleagues gathered data from 13 solar cell " manufacturers in Europe and the US over three years. The cells included four major commercial types: multicrystalline silicon, monocrystalline silicon, ribbon silicon and thin-film cadmium telluride The study concluded that generating electricity from solar cells reduced air pollutants by about 90 per cent compared with using electricity generated in conventional power stations
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Air pollution may damage brain
Long-term exposure to air pollution may lead to loss of white matter in the brain, a research has found. White matter in the brain is made of axon cells, which enable the nerves to communicate. In