A modelling group convened by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS has estimated that if efforts are not made to mitigate and overcome interruptions in health services and supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, a six-month disruption of antiretroviral therapy could lead to more than 500 000 extra deaths from AIDS-related …
For the last three decades, the villagers of Karauli district in Rajasthan had grown accustomed to listening to the blasts of mines. And worse, to having their fields rendered useless for cultivation. With illegal miners clearing large tracts of land, and using dynamites for creating quarries, agriculture is no longer …
BANGLES and vermilion. The unusual gift made Orissa chief minister (CM) Naveen Patnaik see red. But by giving this present to the CM - along with samples of toxic water and ruined crop - the tribal women of Sukruli, too, were venting their anger. Because an insouciant state administration had …
the challenge faced in the control of infectious diseases such as hiv/aids, tb and malaria is now seen more as a political and communications one than scientific and medical. Medical and technical solutions to keep major contagions in check are now available. Yet, they remain major killers, says a recent …
"too small, too slow, or too poorly rooted.' This is how the recently released 19th annual edition of Worldwatch Institute's State of the World 2002 report describes the steps taken in the 1990s for an ecologically resilient world. Considering the dismal scenario, the document recommends "a global war on poverty …
Nicotine has potential to cure tuberculosis, which is caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, according to researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, USA. The finding of the study reported by Reuters indicate that small amount of nicotine can kill the bacteria. Nicotine, is also used in cigarettes, …
People from some overseas countries are up to four times more likely to develop tuberculosis (TB) in the UK than they would in the country they came from, says a recent research. The researchers believe that the move away from a sunny climate to cloudy and grey skies of the …
Projections show a correlation between the use of biomass a cooking fuels and tuberculosis. The prevalence of the disease in memebers of household using biomass-based fuels increases, especially so for women
in houses where biomass is used as cooking fuel, the adult members of the family face the risk of tuberculosis. The prevalence of active tuberculosis is 3.6 times higher among adults in households using biomass fuels than among adults in other households shows a recent study. The term
In Burma, there are an estimated 100,000 new tuberculosis cases each year. However, despite the crisis, the government is following the recommendations laid down by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to decrease the threat. At the second national seminar on tuberculosis, minister for health Ket Sein said about 75 per …
Pakistan ranks fifth among countries most severely affected by tuberculosis in the world. This was stated by the country's director-general health services Ahsan Ahmed at an international preparatory conference on tb in Bankok recently. He urged the international community to assist Pakistan's efforts to eradicate the disease by providing technical …
A three-day review and evaluation meeting of the National Tuberculosis Programme was held in Bhaktapur, Nepal, recently. The review meeting was held in connection with conducting the quarterly review of activities of governmental and non-governmental organisations working in the National Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Programme in all the five developmental …
CLONING TECHNOLOGY: Geron, the US-based biotechnology company specialising in embryo research has bought the Scottish cloning technology that led to Dolly the sheep. The company aims to clone patients' cells to produce specialised tissues for transplantation. Geron is issuing about US $28 million of new shares to buy Roslin Bio-Med, …
Wildlife in the Sariska Tiger Reserve is facing serious health problems. In the past two years, about a dozen tigers and leopards, which were killed in road accidents or found dead, were found to be suffering from tuberculosis (tb) or liver infection. "It is an established fact that tigers and …
DELHI'S 30,000 quacks are primarily responsible for the rapid spread of the Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (TB). According to Rajesh Chawla, a chest specialist and president of the Delhi Medical Association, quacks do not understand the scientific basis of the new treatment known as the short course therapy. The association has …
THE origins of tuberculosis (TB) can be traced back to the early days of agriculture, about 100,000 years ago, which brought Homo sapiens into close contact with cattle infected with the disease. The cattle form of the bacterium is thought to have derived from the soil. The bacterium gradually evolved …
The US Food and Drug Administration (PDA) has approved rifapentine (Priftin) - the first new antituberculosis (anti-TB) drug to be licensed in 25 years. Rifapentine is indicated for pulmonary tuberculo-sis but must be used in conjunction with other anti-TB drugs. It is expected to increase patient compli-ance because it has …
multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (mdr-tb) may threaten India's health security, according to a study of the World Health Organisation (who). The problem already exists in Russia, Latvia, Argentina and the Ivory Coast. It is feared that this will make India unable to meet the who deadline of 2000 ad for the …
