Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Massagers are now increasingly becoming popular with teenage students and young adults, especially women office workers. These light, compact units developed recently in Japan, for softening up stiff shoulders and the lower back can be bought for less than US $90. Omron Corp with its Elepuls series has captured 60 …
Reuters, the information agency, is considering legal action against the British government after the latter blocked a computerised prescription system to be marketed by the company. Healthplus, the system, allows family doctors to use computers for transferring prescriptions to pharmacists, saving both time and paperwork. The department of health recently …
disturbing signals are emanating from the continuing battle for ascendancy between microbes and humankind. Thirty new diseases have appeared on our planet in the past 20 years. Infectious diseases, some of which are staging a comeback for increasing in virulence, continue to be the leading cause of deaths. In the …
Around 1,300 industrial units in Delhi have been given closure orders by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee for their failure to meet environmental standards. These industries had not completed the pro forma for setting up common effluent treatment plants. The Madhya Pradesh government is setting up a home for crocodiles …
In order to improve the condition of the urban poor and health care facilities in Bangladesh, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will give US $90 million as micro credit. According to ADB resident mission chief, Bhanuphol Horayangura, the bank would advance the credit in two parts
V SREERAJ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM in a bid to revitalise local health traditions and dietary habits, the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute ( tbgri ) in Palode, Tiruvananthapuram, has started a grassroots-level programme called "Herbs for all, Health for all, by 2000 ad' . By recognising and scientifically evaluating and validating …
The UFA (Universal Film Studios) Fabrik in the German city of Berlin is a unique experiment in urban living. The former film studio is now home to a community of 50. Having acquired a worldwide reputation as the promoter of an innovative social, cultural and ecological lifestyle, the UFA Fabrik …
Auburn University's Institute for Biological Detection Systems, with a team of veterinarians, chemists and physiologists, is working towards the ultimate detective device: an electronic artificial nose. Such a device would find a host of applications ranging from crime investigation to helping in the detection of drugs. It could even be …
the spinal cord, which is a column of nerve tissues extending from the base of the brain down to the central cavity of the vertebral column, could be regarded as the very pillar of life. Any injury inflicted on it could either handicap the person through partial or total paralysis …
for patients requiring expert advice from hospitals abroad, the telemedicine service would be a boon. This global medical consultation service was recently launched in New Delhi by the city-based Aashlok Hospital which has tied up with the International Network of Medical Communications of New York. Now patients can pay as …
For those who are tired of battling it out with colds, this may come as a relief. A study published in the Lancet says that 20 per cent of the people suffering from cold could benefit by taking antibiotics. Although common cold is actually caused by a class of virus …
THE NGO sector of Orissa has vehemently opposed the bureaucrats of the health and family welfare department of the state after they returned Rs 33 crore out of the Rs 60 crore grant for the 'blindness control programme' of the World Bank. The department said that it could not use …
A NEW report from a committee of the Institute of Medicine in the us has put across some sane advice to a federally funded, state-run programme that provides food, nutrition, education, and health care for mothers and children. The programme could better address the unmet needs of poor children by …
Specialists at the Stanford Research Institute in California, US, have pioneered a remote surgery system for the US Army , which could mean that doctors will not longer have to work in thefrontlines. In the system, the surgeon operates on a virtual image of the patient which is created by …
A radar system on a microchip, costing less than $10.5 has been developed by American scientists. It is so sensitive that it can monitor the breathing of a baby to cut down cotdeaths, pinpoint human heartbeats in collapsed buildings, detect burglars, find landmines, replace the doctor's stethoscope or simply help …
MORE than 15 per cent of the deaths caused by heart attacks are due to delayed medical treatment. Now, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, has launched 'Mission Save Heart' in order to provide prompt treatment to the patient within the golden hour, which is the hour of …
A DELHI truck driver developed recurring headaches which common drugs failed to cure. Doctors at I premier hospital tested his cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) for possible brain irifection. Result: normal. Six weeks later, he came back complaining of unbearable headache. His CSF sample was sent to the National Institute of Communicable …
SOME people suffer from compulsions like the overpowering need to wash their hands all the time. Such people can lose precious hours of the day preoccupied in their obsessions and compulsions. This malady known as obsessive-compulsive disorder affects approximately five million Americans. A new study recommends psychotherapy sessions for patients …
