Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Haripriya Patel Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 24/03/2025. The matter related to the dumping yard at Baliapanda which is situated 50-100 meter away from Puri sea beach and a few km away from Puri …
A software programme called Computer Imaging Sperm Selection (CISS) that scientists working with rare animals incarcerated in zoos use to enhance the chances of fertilisation, is now being tested on humans. Recently in London, a woman gave birth to a 4 kg child with the help of this programme. The …
OFTEN, a question elicits the cryptic "maybe" as the reply. The fuzzy logic behind such an answer has not escaped mathematicians who have built a mathematical theory known as fuzzy set theory around it. Considering the nebulous character of such logic, the benefits accruing from it are nothing less than …
OVER the last few decades, the whirlwind of technology has changed the face of diagnosis, and medical treatment. 40 years ago, if a patient suffering from "effort angina" approached the physician, he would do a complete physical examination and after a series of tests, conclude that the patient is suffering …
INDIAN scientists have developed indigenous radioactive compounds for easier detection of cancerous and other tumours. Whereas radioactive elements conventionally used to detect cancer had to be often imported, making them expensive, the new radiopharmaceuticals -- radiation-emitting chemical compounds that illuminate specific organs -- are based on technetium-99, a radioactive element …
THE long anxious wait for a sputum or blood test report to confirm whether that persistent cough is tuberculosis, or the unexplained, but constant fatigue and failing appetite is hepatitis B could soon be shortened from days to just a few hours. Results of recent clinical trials of techniques developed …
A NEW rapid dipstick method to detect the presence of the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, could prove a boon to diagnosticians. The test, which has a sensitivity as high as 95 to 100 per cent, has been successfully tried in Kenya and the US (The Lancet, Vol 343, No 8897). …
Simple urine and blood tests could soon be used to detect cancer. Scientists at the Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard Medical School have detected increased levels of a tumour-related protein in the urine of patients suffering from cancer. Further, researchers at the Massachusetts-based Matritech Inc have reported finding proteins …
A COMMON parasitic disease of the human nervous system, neurocysticercosis, is often mistaken for tuberculosis of the brain. And, because doctors are unable to distinguish between the two, the disease claims numerous lives each year. But now, scientists at the Astra Research Centre India and the National Institute for Mental …
A LOW-COST AIDS test is now being manufactured in India. The test, known as the HIV Dipstick, was developed by the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health, a US-based, non-profit agency, and does not require very complicated equipment, refrigeration or technicians to operate it. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that …
Medical researchers at the University of Arkansas have found a way to reduce dramatically the time needed to diagnose tuberculosis. The new method, which involves analysing genetic material found in tuberculosis cells, will enable laboratories to diagnose TB in just 36 hours, instead of upto four weeks that it takes …
WAS ROBERT C Gallo guilty, along with his colleagues at the US National Institute of Health, of scientific misconduct for their conduct and reporting of the crucial experiments that led to the development of a diagnostic blood test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS? No, says the NIH finally, …
