This report presents analyses of data on patients critically ill with confirmed COVID-19 reported to ICNARC up to 4pm on 16 April 2020 from critical care units participating in the Case Mix Programme (the national clinical audit covering all NHS adult, general intensive care and combined intensive care/high dependency units …
Transport economist Stuart Cole shares his views on India's options for effective transport management with Down To Earth. Transport economist Stuart Cole is director of the Wales Transport Research Centre in Cardiff. On a recent visit to Mumbai, he spoke to Nidhi Jamwal about India's options for effective transport management. …
even clean hospitals can pass on infections to patients. Health experts around the world are trying to find ways to reduce hospital acquired infections (hais). Despite all the efforts to tackle it, the threat is increasing. Scientists who took part in the recently held Federation of Infection Societies Conference at …
>> Researchers have unearthed the mummy of a 67-million-year-old hadrosaur from South Dakota in the US. A high-resolution CT scan of the 10-tonne fossil shows that the well-preserved body has much of its tissue intact inside an envelope of skin. The scanning shows the hadrosaur's tail vertebrae are spaced farther …
smart delivery: UV light radiation can now be used to control drug delivery in the body. A new method applies low UV light on the affected area after the drug intake. This helps trigger the release of the drug at the spot, ensuring delivery. The drug, coated with a light …
a team of researchers at the Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, is training human-made molecules to act as tiny computers. These specially-synthesised molecules that can act as nanoscale light sensors or molecular transistors (analogous to 2-way switches) can revolutionise medicine, industry and information technology. Sri Lanka-born organic chemist Amilra de …
Ireland is facing the wrath of the European Commission (ec), the eu executive, on many environmental issues. On April 11, 2005, the ec announced that following complaints of bad smells from Irish sewage plants, it has decided to sue the country in the European Court of Justice for not enacting …
simple remedy: Garlic not only keeps the vampires at bay, but also pests such as slugs and snails, which cause millions of dollars worth of damage in countries with cool or temperate climates. Scientists from the uk-based University of Newcastle upon Tyne have found that the pungent herb could act …
Feeling stressed out? Call up a dolphin. Improbable as it may sound, mobile phone users the world over will soon be able to dial up dolphins if a project undertaken at a sanctuary off the west coast of Ireland becomes a success. Apart from coming in handy as a stress-buster, …
Ireland has initiated legal action against the UK, contending that the controversial Sellafield nuclear plant be shut down since it pollutes the Irish Sea with radioactive waste and is at risk of being targeted by terrorists. The plant is located in northwest England, opposite Ireland's east coast. Ireland has taken …
Ireland and Spain have rejected a deal aimed at settling a dispute between the two nations over fishing rights in Irish waters. While Ireland contends its fishing area is a special conservation zone created in 1985 (when Spain and Portugal joined the eu) to protect depleting fishing stocks, Spain insists …
ireland's first dioxin emissions inventory has turned conventional notions on their head. The recently compiled document has found that domestic burning of waste, rather than incineration, is the biggest source of dioxins in the country. The 'Inventory of Dioxin and Furan emissions to air, land and water in Ireland for …
this was a public hearing with a difference. For, the people succeeded in preventing the establishment of a clinker grinding and cement packing plant in Kerala. The experts panel unanimously recommended at the October 24 meeting that environmental clearance should not be granted for the plant. The unit was to …
ireland's first ever biodiversity report has raised concerns among environmentalists. The report by the country's Environmental Protection Agency has identified modern agricultural practices, pollution of rivers and lakes, mechanised peat extraction, urban development and climate change as the main threats to the country's biodiversity. Biodiversity in Ireland
A patient's own cells could be used to carry vital drugs to diseased organs. Researchers in Ireland are developing a device, which loads red blood cells with a drug, then injects the cells back into a patient's body. The blood cells, already "sensitised' could then be burst open by a …
in countries where a large number of the population still live in villages, biogas could serve as a potentially limitless fuel source for a variety of purposes. But one problem with burning biogas is the production of many polluting byproducts because of inefficient burning of the fuel. Now a team …
