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 …
David Michelson and his team from the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, US , have found that clinical depression in women can lead to broken bones. They measured the bone-mineral density in 24 women suffering from major depression, or with a history of it, and compared it with that …
under a collaborative experimentation effort between the L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad and an American team under surgeon Manuel del Cerro from the University of Rochester, New York, eight blind persons have received tissue transplant from aborted foetuses. Of the eight patients who received the foetal retinal cells …
in a recent issue of the journal Current Opinion in Genetics and Development (Vol 6, No 3), D J Weatherall and A O M Wilkie of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford, uk, provide a succinct introduction to the current state of understanding in the area of human genetics …
according to doctors at the Royal Northern Infirmary in Inverness in the Scottish highlands, moving house may be a significant factor in contracting asthma and allergic diseases. The doctors say that increasing mobility of families in developed countries could contribute to the rise of asthma in children. The health experts …
a report of the Commission of Inquiry into Foetal Sentience, a body set up by care, a British educational charity, says that at as early as 11 weeks period, a human foetus can experience some kind of primitive pain. This is in stark contrast to the belief that it is …
It is afternoon in Bethesda, USA, and business as usual in the offices of the Computer Solutions and Development Company. One executive of the company takes a break. He closes the door to his office and spends 20 minutes meditating. His boss does not complain. In fact, he approves. The …
Medical science accepts now that most chronic diseases like high blood pressure, backaches, cardio-vascular diseases, arthritis, depression and acute illnesses like cancer and aids have stress as a contributing factor. Herbert Simon, president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute of USA's Harvard Medical School points out that "anywhere from 60 per …
The basic tenet of psychoneuroimmunology, a relatively new field of knowledge, is that the mental state affects the nervous system, which in turn exercises an impact on the immune system of the body. For instance, an emotional state like hopelessness is viewed not just as psychological distress but also as …
Among the successes recorded in the field of tissue engineering (the development of spare parts for the body), the growth of bones is one. "This is exciting because we have been mimicking the natural process of development," says A Hari Reddi, of the biology and orthopaedics department at the Johns …
FRANK McCormick and his team from Onyx Pharmaceuticals, a California-based biotech firm, have thought of a crafty way to beat cancer. Mc- Cormick's logic is that if law-abiding cells could go astray under the influence of cancer, the destructive talents of a mutant virus that is a cell destroyer could …
FIFTYNINE-year-old Paul Jernigan and a 39-year old lady have, become the first- ever 'virtual' couple. They were selected to be part of an ambitious, us $1.4-million- project called the Visible Human Project, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, us. The two offered their bodies for …
ABORTED foetuses are the new tools to cure blindness. Researchers transplanted light-sensitive cells from the eyes of aborted foetuses into the eyes of blind adults, enabling them to see partially. Though the experiments have not restored complete vision, its preliminary success have buoyed hopes about future endeavours. The adults who …
LEUKAEMIA affects thousands of children all over the world, accounting for over a third of all cancers diagnosed for children. The bone marrow tissue, which produces blood cells, churn out faulty products in these kids. The only option is replacement of the marrow. But replacement of bone marrow requires a …
New research on migraine headache shows that it follows a cyclical pattern. Discovering a pattern would help the sufferers anticipate such headaches and take pain relievers in advance to mitigate the suffering. Stephen Evars of the University of Munster, Germany, has just described experiments in which brain waves of people …
IT IS well known that indiscriminate use of antibiotics or antimicrobial agents generally carries with it major risks. The reason why resistant microbes establish themselves in a population is simple. Every time one tries to eliminate a microbial infection, one is unwillingly carrying out an evolutionary lottery in which the …
BAD news for diabetics and weight watchers. A new study reveals that indiscriminate use of artificial sweeteners can bring about several unwanted side-effects including headaches, visual impairment and heart palpitation. The Diabetics Association of India (dai), New Delhi, has warned that aspartame, the chemical compound sold under various brandnames in …
According to a research in the US, women suffering from depression are at serious risk of bone fractures in later life. A team at the National Institutes of Health near Washington DC studied 24 women with a history of depression and found that 10 had a bone density so low …
Infertile men who go in for intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) techniques to have children may risk having sons with infertility. ICSI involves the injection of a single sperm directly into a mature egg. David Page and his group of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have discovered that a …
