This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first successful human-to-human blood transfusion, conducted by James Blundell, an English obstetrician working just across the Thames from The Economist’s offices. Today blood is big business—with global exports worth more, in 2016, than global exports of aeroplanes. But that trade is distorted …
London: Scientists have developed a portable blood test device which they say diagnoses an infection within minutes and could be an effective weapon in the fight against HIV and AIDS in the developing world. Developed by scientists at the University of Columbia in New York, the mChip, which costs $1 …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) called on Wednesday for an immediate halt to the use of blood tests to detect active tuberculosis, saying they were faulty and leave millions of people at risk. Production of the test kits, WHO officials said, was largely by Western companies which export them to …
For the first time, blood vessels created in the lab from donor skin cells were successfully implanted in patients according to new research presented in the American Heart Association's Emerging Science Series webinar. . Functioning blood vessels that aren't rejected by the immune system could be used to make durable …
This committee report submitted to Gujarat Health Ministry has disfavoured ban on endosulfan production in the state saying there are no health effects on humans as a result of exposure to the insecticide. This committee was constituted following representation from endosulfan workers in Gujarat, who urged the state government not …
BLOOD shortage in India leaves patients suffering from rare disorders in a lurch. For instance, the Central Blood Bank in Kolkata, needs around 750,000 units of blood per year and the requirement in West Bengal varies from 50,000 to 60,000 units per month. During summer and festivals, the blood bank …
In a bid to reduce the suffering of 1,500 haemophilia patients in the State, the government has come up with a plan to provide them medical assistance. Treatment per patient costs nearly `1 lakh per year A `15-crore plan to aid patients with haemophilia in Tamil Nadu has been sent …
IN 1930, when Karl Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering blood groups, little did he know that a century later the task requiring elaborate lab apparatus could be performed on a stamp-sized paper. Researchers at the Monash University in Australia have developed a dipstick-test for instantly determining a …
Jodhpur: At least 56 children suffering from thalassaemia tested positive for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C after receiving blood transfusion at government-run Umaid hospital in Jodhpur. They are among the 130 thalassaemic children registered with Jodhpur
Hyderabad, July 2: People with positive blood groups should take extra precautions against Chikungunya as the virus that causes this extremely painful disease has greater affinity to positive blood groups. Chikungunya, which is transmitted by the female Aedes mosquito, affects about a million people every year in the country, particularly …
With the cracking of the human genome in 2003 emerged the “Omics” era. Genomics and Proteomics turned into fields of study dedicated entirely to genes, proteins and their complex reign over the human body. Terms like “biomarkers” were coined. These are proteins formed in the presence of a disease and …
Chennai: Hot Dog, the prankster black Labrador, is no longer a mere family pet but an icon. He became the first dog to donate blood as TN opened the country
What makes one prone to heart diseases and joint pain in malaria can be understood by applying basic fluid dynamics to blood flow—the same concept works on water pipes. Unlike environmental or genetic factors associated with the diseases, the flow of fluids is governed by well understood principles. Understanding does …
With four deaths from dengue and 710 cases being reported from hospitals across the city so far, the Red Cross is faced with a growing demand for blood, needed to fight the outbreak. After
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: If you are admitted to a private hospital in the Capital with dengue and need blood, it will pay to hone your bargaining skills. In a city grappling with price rise, the medical sector too hasn
This latest CSE study reveals that most of the popular brands of paints contain high quantities of lead, a toxin especially dangerous for children. Says that weak regulatory control is the real culprit as there is no mandatory standard for lead levels in paints in the country. Source: http://www.cseindia.org/lead_paints.pdf See …
evolution First blood Palaeontologists dug up a dinosaur bone buried for 80 million years in Montana, usa. The find yielded blood and bone cells and collagen protein
