Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
It is rare to hear the wail of a child about to be given an injection at Dharam Prakash's small clinic in Ashok Vihar, Delhi. Reason: in the 30 years that he has been practising, this doctor has rarely used injections, not even in extreme cases. For instance, twelve-year-old Vishakha …
union health minister C P Thakur recently announced a plan to commercialise the farming of musk deer for medicinal purposes. To execute this plan, he proposes to set up captive breeding centres in Jammu, Himachal Pradesh and in certain areas of Uttaranchal. Musk, an aromatic secretion from the male Himalayan …
while thinking of West Bengal and Bangladesh, our mind conjures up images of people facing the menace of toxic and insidious arsenic. But a new study by Chinese researchers could soon change these. The study by Wang Wuyi and colleagues from the Institute of Geographical Sciences of the Chinese Academy …
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA, have developed a way to "grow' arteries that could save several heart patients' lives. The standard procedure till today is to replace diseased coronary arteries with minor arteries from elsewhere. But the test was to find the ones that was long …
cleaner alternative: A biofertiliser plant has been established in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, and it will start production by the end of September, 2000. The plant has been established by the National Federation for Agricultural Cooperative Marketing. The biofertiliser is being introduced in the market to stop the degradation of soil and …
there are over four million surgical procedures performed worldwide annually. When traditional sutures and staples are used to seal a wound, postoperative complications resulting from air and fluid leaks are not uncommon. Such air and fluid leaks can delay recovery, lead to higher levels of postoperative pain and infection and …
through advances in medicine have made some kinds of organ transplant possible, the biggest hurdle for transplanting organs for the hundreds of thousands of needy patients is the lack of donors. Scientists have experimented with several materials to develop artificial organs that are accepted by the body's immune system. But …
One of the most challenging problems in molecular biology is to model how long chains of proteins fold into three-dimensional shapes. This is crucial because the shape of the protein has a lot to do with its action. Now computer giant IBM has announced a US $100 million initiative to …
IN MAKING blood vessels, or for that matter, that remarkable pump that unfailingly works, nature has no match. But scientists from Organogenesis, a biotech company in Canton, Massachusetts, USA, say they have come close by drawing on natural ingredients. Using pig intestines, a cow protein and the blood-thinning agent heparin, …
What is the function of the smallest synthetic polymer particle that you have developed? The smallest synthetic polymer particle can bring about a breakthrough in the way drugs are administered. It can specially be very useful in cancer treatment. The particle couriers drugs to the right place in the body. …
ultrasound imaging has proved to be immensely useful in the diagnosis of illnesses. It is supposed to be safe and relatively inexpensive and gives the physician a clear picture of organs that x -rays cannot image, such as the liver and the pancreas gland. However, it cannot be used in …
a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( mit ), usa , has reported a new material that could be used to make synthetic organs for transplants. This is great news for medical science as there are several times more people who need organs than those who …
thousands of people suffer fractures that do not heal easily. New research shows that pulsed, low-intensity ultrasound treatment helps mend fractured bones. More than 80 per cent of patients, with fractured bones that had failed to fuse, benefited from the therapy, according to a report presented at the recently held …
David Smith, a British chemical physicist, and Patrick Spanel, a Prague-based physicist, have developed a device that can diagnose ailments from the smell of compounds found in the breath of the afflicted. The device, known as selected ion flow tube (SIFT), was demonstrated at a recent meeting of the American …
The US Army has developed a new blood-clotting bandage that will be available soon. Bleeding is the most common cause of death for those wounded in battle, and the first-aid and other emergency departments need such bandages until the patients are transferred to the hospital. The new bandages involve freeze-drying …
ever since the invention of x -rays about 100 years ago, medical imaging technology has undergone several changes. cat -scans, pet scanning and mri scanning have helped physicians learn a great deal about the human body without surgical intervention. But there remain some parts of the body, such as lungs, …
