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 …
infections are a pretty simple affair to most of us. It is usually something we "catch' inadvertently, and then pop in some pills and forget the whole episode. The cycle lasts for about a week. However, despite exceptions such as leprosy (which brings prolonged misery), or perhaps, tuberculosis
The male brain shrinks more rapidly with age than its female counterpart, particularly in the frontal and temporal lobe regions. This was reported by C Edward Coffey and his team of the Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, USA. Because men are more prone to age-related memory loss than women, the …
The first concrete evidence that repetitive strain injury (RSI) is caused by damage to sensory nerves by has been reported by researchers at the University of London, UK. This study shows a quantitative sensory deficit in patients with RSI. Jane Greening and her team used a 100-hertz vibrameter to obtain …
the easiest mode of communication, talking, and the one that we have always taken for granted, can prove to be difficult for many people. Those who have difficulties with speech are learning to pronounce words more clearly using an artificial palate that "tells' them exactly what their tongue is doing. …
women who smoke, have a 50 per cent higher risk of dying from heart attack than men who smoke, say researchers. The likely reason given is that tobacco smoke has an adverse effect on the female hormone, oestrogen. Researchers monitored nearly 11,500 women and 13,200 men for the study for …
Aspirin helps protect our hearts. True. Small, regular doses of aspirin can actually reduce risks of heart attacks. This is usually attributed to the pill's effect on the blood cells called platelets, which are involved in blood clotting (heart attacks are commonly caused by blood clots). However, aspirin may also …
more than half of all tumour cells contain tiny extra chromosomes that encourage the cancer to grow. Now scientists may finally be able to find a way to obviate cells of the excess dna , using a technique that lets them watch these chromosomes at work in living cells. Called …
among the dreaded human viruses that cause fever and extensive internal or external haemorrhaging, Ebola and Marburg viruses are the most feared. Responsible for a virtual carnage in several African states in the past, these tiny killers have been talked and written about the most. Belonging to the same family …
scientists in California have developed an anti-cancer drug. Researcher Harinder Grewal of the Arizona Cancer Center in Tuscan, usa , said that the new drug has so far been effective in treating cancers of the mouth and throat. He believes that it will work against liver cancer and recurring breast …
till today, science has not been able to develop a powerful analgesic or painkiller that is universally accepted. The most common painkiller used to treat unrelenting pain, like that caused by serious injury or in many cases of cancer is morphine. This drug, the virtual "king' of all analgesics, is …
Heroin addicts may soon be treated with a polymer implant instead of taking a daily dose of the heroin substitute, methadone. Researchers at John Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA, have developed a button-sized implant that releases a steady stream of hydromorphone for up to three months. Hydromorphone, like …
Vitamin B2 can ward off migraines, says a recent European study team. Researchers at the General Hospital of Luxembourg, Belgium, split 55 migraine patients into two groups. One took 400 milligrams of Vitamin B2 every day for four months, the other, a placebo. At the end of the trial, 59 …
scientists at the Centre for Genetic Disorders have claimed to locate a new gene responsible for congenital eye cataract. The centre is being run by the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab. The researchers studied over 350 families afflicted with congenital cataract over a period of more than one year. …
the controversy has been raging ever since cellular telephones invaded our lives. These gadgets heat up your brain, meddle with your pacemakers and perhaps, cause cancer. And ever since these words of doom were uttered, scientists have been looking at the connection of these adverse health effects with the increasing …
the power of positive thinking has been much talked about and considered rewarding. But a new study by psychologists at Ohio State University, usa, suggests that the power of negative thinking may have a stronger influence on well-being than the power of positive thinking. Researchers found that the possible harm …
decreasing sperm count and infertility in recent years may have not much to do with chemicals that mimic female hormones in the environment. Recent research shows that sperm actively needs female hormones, oestrogen, to mature fully, thrive and function effectively ( Nature , Vol 390, No 6659). Ever since sex …
a new set of guidelines have been prescribed by the Indian Council of Medical Research ( icmr) on the issue of transfer of biological material into and outside India for biomedical research. The human material include organs, cells, tissues, embryos, foetal tissues and waste. Earlier, all institutions undertaking such activities …
a chance discovery that a stingy little invertebrate is not always what is seems will soon help in the development of a promising new anticancer drug. Researchers in California have discovered why some populations of Bugula neritina ( B neritina ), a marine fouling organism, produce the drug but others …
Scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and doctors of KEM hospital, Mumbai, India, have successfully demonstrated a process to deplete stone-forming chemicals from the foodstuffs using oxalate oxidase, an enzyme obtained from beet stem and banana peels. Even a small dietary oxalate load in enteric hyperoxaluria patients can lead …
