Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The height of people appears to depend on the season of their birth. Jan Wohlfahrt and his team from the Danish Epidemiology Science Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, studied 1,166,206 children born between 1973 and 1994. They found that children born in April were almost a quarter of centimetre taller
Recent findings presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology at Tours in France point out that male fertility starts to decline in the late 30s. Scientists who presented the findings said after the age of 39, men's sperm begins to deteriorate at a …
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 …
it is a common observation. But scientists have not been able to explain how many people eat at will and yet manage to remain slim. Researchers have been trying to unravel this mystery for long and find credible explanations for this. The only reason provided so far is that perhaps …
a recent article, in one of the dailies in Delhi reported that Bihar accounts for 90 per cent of kala-azar cases countrywide and 5.5-crore people are prone to it in 30 of the 56 districts of the state. Now, the Catholic Health Association of India (chai), at Secunderabad in Andhra …
despite intensive research for over 50 years, very little is known about sleep. One thing, however, is clear: it is not a luxury. Everybody needs sleep. But how much sleep one needs is also not clear. No biological signal has been found so far that indicates exactly when you have …
four days of extreme stress, as experienced by war refugees, is all that it may take to significantly impair memory. Some us psychologists have reached this conclusion. Moreover, they have traced the phenomenon down to a single hormone. Psychologists have known for long that prolonged stress can cause amnesia or …
in the 18 years that we have known the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( aids ), medical science has made significant advances towards combating the menace. The human immunodeficiency virus ( hiv ) has been isolated and characterised, several drugs have been discovered in record time, vaccine initiatives have been launched …
Joshua M Smith and his team from North Dakota University, USA, suggest that writing can help improve the health of people, especially those suffering from chronic illnesses. The researchers asked 112 patients with asthma and rheumatic arthritis to write about their most traumatic experiences for 20 minutes at a time …
the "healthy worker' effect has been a mystery to scientists. This effect is a paradoxical situation in which people working with hazardous chemicals, or those exposed to radiation at their job, often appear more healthy that the general population. Epidemiologists have suspected that among people employed in jobs involving hazardous …
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 …
People suffering from hypertension who lie awake at night may be at a greater risk of heart damage than those who sleep through the night. Researchers at the University of Pavia in Italy examined the effect of lack of sleep on blood pressure and heart rate. They monitored 36 people …
while some scientists would dismiss such claims, studies show emissions of microwaves from cellular telephones have a variety of strange effects on living tissue that cannot be reconciled with conventional radiation biology. One of the weirdest effects comes from the now famous "memory loss' study, published in the International Journal …
the common cold is rarely life threatening. But their collective toll of misery and absenteeism is nothing to sneeze at. Billions of people the world over come down with colds every year. It is estimated that children average six to eight colds a year; adults, two to four, depending upon …
anti-hiv drug: Pharmaceutical company Glaxo has added yet another anti-HIV drug to its existing list. With the approval from 15 countries in Europe, the new drug Ziagen is a reverse transcriptase inhibitor, intended to be used as part of a cocktail of anti-retroviral drugs. Though Glaxo is the market leader …
As part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Thailand and China, the two countries have signed an agreement on joint research in the use of herbal medicine to treat cancer and aids . The cooperation will be carried out between the Kunming Institute of …
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, …
should the last known samples of the smallpox virus be destroyed or preserved for medical research? Or, should the vials of virus continue to remain in deep-freeze in case a future enemy develops it into a biological weapon? These are some of the questions at the heart of an on-going …
sunil k gupta, a paediatrician and neonatologist at the Jaipur-based Satellite Hospital, has developed a new filter-based defluoridation technique which he says can
