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 …
two separate studies reveal that hepatitis virus may lead to liver cancer. Randy Jirtle and his colleagues at the Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, uk , have found that hepatitis b and c viruses damage genes in liver cells, making them susceptible to cancer ( Proceedings of National Academy of …
According to a US surgeon, Robert White, human heads can be surgically transplanted on to healthy bodies of dead donors. White who has experimented with animals, has already achieved success in head transplantation of rhesus monkeys. He says that in future, a person with a healthy head, but broken body …
a group of activists and health professionals in the us have offered to test a controversial aids vaccine on themselves. Their offer is a part of a calculated effort to break the deadlock that has frustrated researchers since the start of the aids epidemic. Scientists know vaccines are the best …
Smoking accelerates the progression of rheumatoid arthritis and can significantly deteriorate its symptoms. Researchers at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, USA, studied the severity of the disease in nearly 400 patients. They studied extensive joints erosion, nodules beneath the skin and high levels of rheumatoid factor in the …
Researchers in the UK say that age difference between couples decides the sex of their first child. John Manning and his colleagues at the University of Liverpool, say women with partners 5 to 15 years older than them are twice as likely to have a boy than a girl. They …
levels of blood sugar earlier considered normal by physicians all over the world, are actually high and people having such levels may also have diabetes, says a us Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus constituted by the American Diabetic Association (ada). According to the new guidelines recommended …
researchers in the us say that people exposed to second-hand smoke during their daily lives have shown to absorb a chemical that is strongly suspected to cause lung cancer. Stephen Hecht of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center in Minneapolis told last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in …
Soccer may be harmful for your brain. Researchers at the University of Helsinki, Norway, obtained magnetic resonance images of the brains of 15 male soccer players and 17 male American football players
houseflies are a greater menace than earlier believed. A team of microbiologists led by Peter Grubel at St Elizabeth's Medical Centre, Boston, has found that houseflies spread a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori that causes ulcers. They transport the bacterium on their skins and intestinal tracts, and pass it from one …
when a 16-year-old boy was treated for bubonic plague in Madagascar two years ago, the scientific community was unaware of what was in store. Some French researchers have recently published their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine . They say the strain of Yersinia pestis , the bacterium …
in st Louis, Missouri, usa , hundreds of healthy people are leasing their bodies to medical research and contributing to the development of a vaccine for aids . They are receiving injections containing canarypox viruses that cause disease in birds but are harmless to humans. After being genetically-engineered, the viruses …
saving species: UK-based Glaxo Wellcome will help save the endangered medicinal Leech from extinction. The blood sucking creature is used by doctors to prevent blood clotting. The pharmaceutical company is the latest to sign up for the UK's government's initiative to find private sector companies toprotect 116 endangered species. A …
a dangerous bacterium that can pose serious threats to human life has developed resistance to antibiotics. The bacteria, called staphylococcus, can drain through intravenous lines or get into surgical wounds and destroy skin and bones, poison blood and lead to other complications. Earlier, penicillin, an antibiotic, was able to prevent …
among the organisms that lead to opportunistic infections in humans, Candida albicans, a yeast-like organism, is the most common fungus. Oppor-tunistic infections are caused by organisms that live very close to humans and become active only if they detect weakness in the body such as lowering of the immune surveillance. …
> The discovery of the parasite that causes malaria is credited to Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army physician working in Algeria. Laveran's work, published in 1880, was received with scepticism by leading malariologists at the time. Little was known about the disease and it was believed that it …
the latest addition to the list of factors that lead to heart disease is one that depends on internal regulation of the body. Amino acids, the basic building blocks of proteins, are required by the body for metabolism. But a recent study conducted by Ottar Nygard and others in Haukeland …
a bangalore hospital has mastered the art of injecting a sperm into an egg cell outside the woman's body. This method is an advancement over the in vitro fertilisation of the test-tube method. Called Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection ( icsi ), this procedure is useful for couples who have not …
electromagnetic fields from power lines and appliances do not affect the risk of leukaemia in children, say researchers at the us National Cancer Institute ( nci ) and the University of Minnesota, usa. The study is one of the most comprehensive probes into the links between electromagnetic fields and the …
For some people, the burning desire for fine foods may be an indication of a subtle brain damage, say Swiss researchers. Marianne Regard of University hospital, Zurich and Teodor Landis of Hospital Cantonal Univeresitaire de Geneve, Geneva, term the disorder as "Gourmand Syndrome'. They suggest abnormal serotonin activation may play …
surgeons have developed a method of blasting holes through heart that would help relieve heartache in patients. Clinical trials show that laser beams can be used in creating holes in the ailing heart of human which can prove to be extremely beneficial for the people suffering from acute heart problems. …
