The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
This analysis is based on two assumptions. l Cancer is linked to environmental pollution. l The poorest of the poor live in the most polluted environmental conditions. It is an effort to explore a third aspect with the strength of the first two: is cancer becoming an increasing problem among …
T he six cancer registries in India fail to give the true picture of cancer incidence as several cases go unreported. Vinod Raina, additional professor of medical oncology at aiims , recently stated in a television programme that only about 30 per cent of the patients diagnosed with cancer undergo …
W hile lung cancer's link with smoking has been publicised, its link with air pollution is considerably underplayed. "Data do suggest that urban smokers are more likely to develop lung cancer than rural smokers, even after accounting for smoking behaviour (how heavily a person smokes, what kind of cigarettes are …
india's overall health care system performance has helped the country to the 112th position among World Health Organisation members, according to the World Health Report 2000 released in the latter part of June. India stands 133rd on the basis of per capita expenditure in the field of health. With these …
Health does not seem to be the priority area for the government. The World Health Report 2000 claimed that while only 1 per cent of India's gross domestic produce ( gdp ) is being used in the field of health care, three times this amount is being used for defence. …
THE Indian Council of Medical Research, (ICMR), has drafted a code to make research involving human experimental material more ethical. The code deals with areas such as genetic engineering, in vitro fertilisation, foetal research and experiment carried out on women. A committee headed by former chief justice M N Venkatachaliah …
Twenty needles - nine pierced in each leg and two in the belly - with the probes attached to a mild electrical current gave Harold Katcoff of Baltimore, us , the relief that aspirins, steroids and anti-inflammatory drugs could not. Suffering from osteoarthritis (a chronic disease of the joints caused …
The Sri Lankan government intends to invest about Rs 41 crore (Indian rupees) this year for the improvement of western and indigenous medicine sector. Nimal Siripala de Silva, minister for health and indigenous medicine said that this was an increase of 40 per cent over the previous year's allocation. He …
The Delhi high court has pulled up authorities at the Safdarjung Hospital and said that the hospital premises must be cleaned within two weeks. A three-member committee of advocates, comprising Ashok Aggarwal, Rajiv Awasthi and Meera Bhatia, found insects in intensive care units, unclean toilets and a dirty general ward. …
The Delhi high court has allowed two associations of medical practitioners who do not follow allopathy to become party to a petition seeking a ban on quacks in the capital. The two associations mainly represent doctors practising Ayurved, Unani, and other traditional Indian systems of medicine. The associations claimed that …
steroids are not as harmful as we commonly perceive. The present misunderstanding has a lot to do with overzealous athletes who use them to enhance their abilities, which tantamounts to cheating. But doctors (rather quacks) are not far behind either. They indiscriminately prescribe steroids
in the 18 years that we have known the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( aids ), medical science has made significant advances towards combating the menace. The human immunodeficiency virus ( hiv ) has been isolated and characterised, several drugs have been discovered in record time, vaccine initiatives have been launched …
famida , 40, a resident of Bhopal's Jayaprakash Nagar was "anything but dead' for 14-odd years after the disastrous methyl iso cyanate ( mic ) gas leak in Bhopal in 1984. Two of her family members choked to death while running for their lives. She was left alive, but barely …
in what is considered a significant step, the National Cancer Institute ( nci ), Bethesda, usa, has urged thousands of us doctors to use chemotherapy along with radiation while treating cervical cancer after studies showed that such treatment can halve death rates. Randomised clinical trials conducted in various hospitals across …
The Supreme Court has debarred practitioners of Indian system of medicine like the vaids and hakims from practicing modern system of medicine such as allopathy. It further ruled that they cannot prescribe allopathic medicine. The court was responding to the assertion of Indira Jaising, an advocate, that Indian system of …
tampering with genes in human sperm and eggs is outlawed, as any unforeseen side effects would be passed on to future generations. However, us health officials are worried that the human repro-ductive cells may have accidentally been contaminated during gene therapy trials. Therapeutic genes are usually shuttled into the body …
" medicinal Plants for Survival" was the theme at the International Conference on Medicinal Plants held in Bangalore from February 16 to 19. The conference was organised by the Foundation for the Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (frlht), a Bangalore-based non-governmental organisation (ngo), and was held at the National Institute …
THE relatively new field of ethnoveterinary medicine, which is establishing itself as a serious discipline, has far-reaching implications for the well-being of livestock in the developing world. Ethnoveterinary medicine is the knowledge possessed by non-literate cultures with regard to animal health and disease that is passed on in the form …
