A smoke ring that cost you $280 bn
The federal government launches its lawyers against the US' leading cigarette makers. The hearings begin on September 21. America's federal government charges its top cigarette makers
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Health implications from monocrotophos use: a review of the evidence in India
Monocrotophos is a highly hazardous organophosphate insecticide that is widely used and easily available in India. Monocrotophos has been most frequently associated with both accidental and intentional fatal pesticide poisonings. The report therefore focuses on presenting data on the current practices and
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Stir before Coke plant enters 1,000th day
The move by the Union Government to "link the rivers of the country will lead to looting of waters and deprive the local people of their lifeline and their right over natural resources," Medha
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Ready to Eat: First GM Fish for Dinner
A GM salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America's powerful food-safety watchdog
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The behavioural, welfare and environmental impacts of air travel reductions during and beyond COVID-19
<p>This paper aims, first, to estimate the short-run behavioural, social and environmental impacts of air travel reductions due to COVID-19, and, second, to explore the potential for different policy measures
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2014 Legatum prosperity index
With a rank of 102 India lags behind Sri Lanka and Nepal in this 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index released by Legatum Institute. Now in its eighth year, the Index assesses 142 countries, representing more than 96% of the world’s population and 99% of global GDP.
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In times of bright colours and gloss, ecofriendly clay idols find few takers
Even as denizens of Sangam City joined crores of other Indians in celebrating the festival of lights, few gave a thought to purchasing ecofriendly idols. On Saturday, people made beelines at stalls selling idols of Lord Ganesha and Laxmi. However, while most chose the brightest and most colourful idols, only some gave a thought that many such idols would eventually end up polluting rivers with lethal metals like lead.
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Specialized mosquitoes may fight tropical disease
Scientists have made a promising advance for controlling dengue fever, a tropical disease spread by mosquito bites. They've rapidly replaced mosquitoes in the wild with skeeters that don't spread the dengue
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ICMR to come out with cervical cancer treatment guidelines
As part of an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) initiative, new guidelines for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer based on Indian socio-economic factors and disease pattern, are likely to be finalised here on June 20. The sub-committee, headed by S.K. Srivatsava, chief radiation oncologist, Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital, will meet here to firm up the guidelines.Oncologists in the country generally follow guidelines issued by the US-based National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), an alliance of 21 of world’s leading cancer centres,
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Project to bring down mother-child mortality rate
Despite the spectacular economic and scientific growth of the country leading us to aspire for a super power status, the child mortality and maternal mortality rate is still high due to lack of basic
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Dengue thrives in city hospitals
Hospitals and police stations are leading in the list of defaulters in dengue prevention measures. According to MCD's health department figures, various police stations and hospitals in the city have recorded over 10% breeding levels, which already puts them in a high breeding category. In surveys being carried out on breeding, MCD has also identified various establishments such as colonies and educational institutions that have not cared to follow the directives on dengue prevention.
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An inhibitor of NEDD8-activating enzyme as a new approach to treat cancer
This study has developed the first small molecule NEDD8-activating enzyme (NAE) inhibitor, which induces cancer cell death and exerts anti-tumour activity in preclinical mouse models. This work establishes NAE as an anti-cancer target and may lead to new anti-cancer therapeutics.
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Studies show promise in fight against malaria
The discovery of four genes that help or hinder the malaria parasite as it infects mosquitoes could lead to new ways to battle one of the world's biggest killers, researchers in Germany said. Two of
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Urban China: toward efficient, inclusive, and sustainable urbanization
In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has
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AIDS drugs threatened
India's Parliament is about to take up a proposed law that could affect sick people the world over. India is the leading supplier of low-cost generic AIDS medicine. The country's huge generic
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Anti-HIV drug from Japan
TAKEDA Chemical Industries Ltd, Japan's largest drugmaker, and the researchers at Kagoshima University have discovered a drug compound that shows promise in fighting HIV, the virus that can lead to
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Prozac patients switch to generic treatment
Eighty per cent of US patients who use the anti depressant Prozac switched to a generic equivalent in its first week on the market, underscoring the risks of patent expiration to leading drug
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Stem cells prove hard to come by
If scientists want to develop new supplies of embryonic stem cells, they may have to take the bold and controversial step of creating human embryos expressly for research, many leading fertility
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Move to regulate 'safer' cigarettes
Leading US health organisations and anti-tobacco groups took legal action aimed at helping the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulate so called cigarette alternatives including lozenges and
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Women's groups oppose 'two-child norm'
An "anonymous" strategy paper floated by the Planning Commission, advocating "two-child norm", has come in for sharp criticism from several women organisations, which fear such a move might lead to