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 …
a california-based company, VaxGen, has received permission from the us Food and Drug Administration (fda) to conduct the world's first large-scale test of aidsvax
linzhou , a tiny mountain province in China, has seen a lot of action lately. Here, in a nondescript red-brick health centre, next to a metalworking shop that could be perfectly at home in the Middle Ages, us and Chinese doctors operated recently on Chinese peasants with high-tech medical equipment …
have you ever had a mouthful of curry that had too much chilly powder and, two seconds later, felt your mouth explode in searing, white hot burn? Well, get used to the feeling because the chemicals that make your mouth explode are becoming increasingly fashionable in medical circles as pain …
the acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome ( aids ) is widely believed to have resulted from infection by a virus known as the human immuno-deficiency virus ( hiv ). Two aids viruses have been identified so far, hiv -1 and hiv -2. It is clear that both came from Africa, where the …
after about 10 weeks in the mother's womb, the human foetus already shows a distinct left- or right-handedness, say scientists from Northern Ireland. They say their finding could mean that contrary to the conventional idea that the brain dictates
It has long been believed that correcting genes in the womb is one of the best ways to treat congenital diseases. Studies on animals have included injection of modified viruses into amniotic fluid, maternal blood or the foetus. However, this has failed to deliver enough genes, sometimes even injuring the …
a two-year campaign against genetic engineering by environmentalists, animal rights and consumer groups in Switzerland received a severe jolt on June 7, when Swiss voters, in a referendum, decisively rejected a proposal to ban the production and patenting of genetically modified organisms ( gmo s). The people rejected the ban …
PEOPLE in India have by and large been ignorant of pollution and have remained unconcerned about environmental issues. But the problems of pollution forced residents of Delhi to look up and ask whether pollution in the city has been affecting their health? The answer they received recently was strange, to …
cancer, the universally-dreaded disease, could soon be eradicated. In a recent development, scientists tested two new drugs they claim can cure laboratory mice injected with the disease. And if all goes well, the first cancer patient could be injected with these drugs well within a year. Some cancer experts say …
tens of millions of tuberculosis ( tb ) patients worldwide are facing a serious risk to their lives. They may succumb to the disease even before medical science comes up with a better vaccine or more effective antibiotic treatments. Barry Bloom of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New …
though the factors responsible for a woman's risk of breast cancer have been known to the doctors for years, there was little they could possibly do except issue warnings and suggest preventive measures to cut down the chances of aggravating the disease. However, there has been little consensus on what …
heart disorders are responsible for the greatest number of annual deaths worldwide. In the us, for instance, as many as 80,000 people undergo major heart surgery every year, and experts predict a continual rise in this figure as the population ages. Moreover, many of these patients succumb, not because of …
hospitals in the us performed radiation experiments on mentally retarded Norwegians during the Cold War, reveals a retired senior health official. Fredrik Mellbye, a top government doctor from 1950 until 1972, says that these people were used to determine the effect of radiation on humans. Such experiments were carried out …
Britain's programme of research into Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) left vital gaps, a member of the government's Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee told the official BSE inquiry recently. Jeffery Almond from University of Reading, UK, believes that the agriculture ministry should have commissioned more research into the threat posed to human …
clotbusting genes, activated by blood, could soon prove to be life-savers for the millions prone to thrombosis, strokes and heart attacks. Together, these diseases account for a formidable percentage of annual deaths in the world. Larry McIntire and his colleagues at Rice University in Texas, usa, have discovered a gene …
a recent study conducted in Delhi has found alarming levels of metals such as lead and cadmium in several placental tissues. This has sharply highlighted the hazards of air pollution as these metals are both toxic and often, are the cause many irreversible health effects. The threat unborn babies face …
