A tale of two treatments
In the treatment of TB, the intensive periods under standard regimen (SR) and shorter course chemotherapy (SCC) remain constant at two months, after which the patient turns sputum negative. The
In the treatment of TB, the intensive periods under standard regimen (SR) and shorter course chemotherapy (SCC) remain constant at two months, after which the patient turns sputum negative. The
A prize-winning computerised system developed jointly by the University of Hun and the JIun Royal Infirmary takes an image. guided approach to planning and implementing a trajectory
Besides BCG vaccination, another preventive control measure practised widely in North America but largely ignored in developing countries, is isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT). Unfortunately, the
CHINA's hopes of completing the largest hydroelectric project in history, received a temporary setback when the Export- Import Bank of the us refused to help finance the Three Gorges
People with high cholesterol can reduce the risk of a first time heart attack by 31 per cent and the risk or death by 22 per cent by takIng a widely prescribed drug tailed pravastatin sodium.
DYE TEST: In order to upgrade 37 laboratories identified country-wide to test for azo dyes, the Planning Commission has released a sum of Rs 15 crore, while a Rs six crore grant has been
"Eeeks", you may say, but a new robot which can travel down your intestines is opening up exciting possibilities of medical breakthrough, though patients are still unwilling to let 'creeps' inside them
A recent study by Fred Spoor, a researcher from University College, London, has given fresh insights illto the lives of Cro-Magllons alld Nealldertals. The study hints at trade alldcultural
A partially mummified skeleton of the Spirit Cave Man lying in the Nevada State Museum in the US, is at the centre of a controversy. Recent tests have revealed that the Cave Man was at least
ON THE heels of the mad cow disease, the British government is faced with another food safety crisis. This time the crisis centres around powdered baby milk thought to contain potentially
New findings by scientists at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, US, and the University of GuizhouinChina, have indicated that a collection of fossils known as Peking Man, is
• As per the directive of the Supreme Court, the first green bench in the judicial history of the country sat at the Calcutta High Court n June 3. The bench will deal exclusively with
A radar system on a microchip, costing less than $10.5 has been developed by American scientists. It is so sensitive that it can monitor the breathing of a baby to cut down cotdeaths, pinpoint
BLEAK future awaits the aerospace engineering departments of the five Indian Institutes of Technology (11TS), which played a key role in the development of light combat aircraft, missiles,
A TEAM of scientists, led by R S Sirohi, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has developed a video halographic system which they say will provide a convenient way of quantifying the
Researchers in the US have developed an elevator software that will allow the dumb machines to act intelligently and decide where they have to go and how soon
A recent federal court ruling spelled victory for the Environment Protection Agency over the chemical industry. The US district court for the District of Columbia, upheld the agency's decision
Experts are now busy implementing an innovative technique for preventing the leaning tower of Pisa from going overboard
A flicker of brain signals received by a 'mind switch' and 10, disabled people can do a lot of handy work!
In the ongoing battle for justice, the victims of the Bhopal gas leak disaster of 1994, won a significant case when the Supreme Court of India directed the reopening of compensation claims