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 …
Turkish Woman Born Without Uterus Is 6 Weeks Pregnant London: In January 2014, the world may see a child born to a woman who has undergone the first ever successful womb transplant. The breakthrugh procedure was carried out last year by Turkish surgeons on 21-year-old Derya Sert, who was born …
Will make future diagnosis of rare genetic disorders easier A global team of researchers has identified the gene behind a rare brain disorder in a four-year-old boy from Punjab who has not been able to walk or sit without support since he was born. His condition, undiagnosed till now, has …
The "zero-calorie" artificial sweetener has gone sour. The sweetener which became quite popular over the past decade has been found to increase blood sugar, making it anything but safe for diabetics, its USP. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine have found that "zero-calorie" sucralose — marketed as splenda, …
Scientists have discovered three new drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite in Cambodia, which they say have spread to other parts of Asia as well. The parasites are genetically different from other strains around the world and are able to withstand treatment by artemisinin ~ a front-line drug against malaria. …
Some Private Hospitals Come Under Attack From Govt-Appointed Panel Thiruvananthapuram: The committee appointed by the government to look into the human drug trials has found that several companies in the state are conducting trials with just profit as their motive. To regulate this, the committee headed by Kerala State Council …
As many as 2,644 people, called subjects, died during the clinical trials of 475 new drugs on human beings in last seven years and only 17 of the medicines were approved for marketing in India, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court. Responding to allegations by NGO, Swasthya Adhikar Manch, …
Experts Say Process A Success In Rats, Raises Hope For Renal Failure Patients London: A kidney grown in a lab has been successfully transplanted following which it started to produce urine. Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) bioengineered rat kidneys which later successfully produced urine both in a laboratory apparatus …
Less is sometimes more. That was the message delivered this week by Meghna Das Thakur of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, in Emeryville, California, to the American Association for Cancer Research’s meeting in Washington, DC. If a cancer evolves resistance to the drug being used to treat it, withdrawing …
Mumbai: Every third death among Indian children is due to either pneumonia or diarrhoea. A new health series published in the Lancet medical journal’s online site shows that 3.72 lakh Indian children succumbed to pneumonia while 2.37 lakh children succumbed to a diarrhoeal infection in 2011. This accounts for 35% …
LONDON: Science has now proved what Shakespeare always said—rosemary aroma improves memory and helps you remember to do things. The aroma of rosemary essential oil may improve memory in healthy adults, say Northumbria researchers. Jemma McCready and Dr Mark Moss presented their findings at the Annual Conference of the British …
Scientists have tracked the earliest days of a man’s robust immune response to HIV which may lead to a potential new vaccine for the deadly virus. The research team, led by Barton F Haynes from Duke Human Vaccine Institute and John Mascola of the NIH Vaccine Research Center, has for …
Observational cohort studies and a secondary prevention trial have shown an inverse association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular risk. The researchers conducted a randomized trial of this diet pattern for the primary prevention of cardiovascular events.
In September, 2010, the public and medical communities were stunned by the disclosure of syphilis and other sexually transmitted disease studies conducted in 1946 to 1948 by the US Public Health Service in Guatemala, after being hidden for more than 60 years. The ensuing controversy and public embarrassment resulted in …
The Clinical Trials Registry - India (CTRI), an online system (www.ctri.nic.in) for the registration of clinical trials being conducted in India, has its secretariat at the National Institute of Medical Statistics of the Indian Council of Medical Research in New Delhi. The primary objective of the CTRI is to ensure …
The incidence of cancer in the rural areas in the country is much lower when compared to towns and cities, triggering an interest among experts to study the causes for the phenomenon. While the incidence is 45 per one lakh a year in the rural areas, it is as high …
London: Tests to check genes that make people prone to deadliest cancers are now close to being reality. The world’s largest genotyping project targeting identification of genetic alterations that influence the risk of common cancers has revealed 80 genetic “spelling mistakes” that increase the risk of cancers like that of …
If you are taller and heavier in your first two years, you are less likely to get diabetes, hypertension and such chronic diseases in later life, a Lancet study published Thursday has claimed. The study followed over 8,000 people from Brazil, Guatemala, India, the Philippines and South Africa from birth …
RCC oncologists to be trained in new procedure in Singapore. Patients with advanced cancer of the colon, rectum, or ovaries may now have hope for long-term survival with the Regional Cancer Centre here preparing to offer peritonectomy or cytoreductive surgery, an intensive, multi-disciplinary, and radical procedure currently done only in …
He reported to a Gurgaon hospital with quadriplegia, progressively losing power in all four limbs, within a span of two weeks. Weeks later, he started walking again after a dose of simple, commonly used antibiotics. The 60-year-old patient, an ex-serviceman, has turned out to be the first reported case in …
London: The world’s most advanced potential malaria vaccine, which looked effective enough to hit the market by 2015, has failed to live up to its promise. Scientists from Oxford University who tested the vaccine — RTS,S — in its final leg said on Thursday that its effectiveness wanes over time, …
