Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Several reports from large metropolitan cities have indicated significant association between acute morbidity and mortality from cardio-respiratory disorders and daily levels of major pollutants in the ambient air. Despite the wide-spread public concern about the adverse health effects of air pollution, there is substantial uncertainty regarding the effects of these …
the Delhi high court has banned the use of firecrackers and loudspeakers in the National Capital Territory of Delhi unless a special permission is taken. Their use is going to be regulated even during religious festivals. The decision has been taken in response to a public interest litigation (PIL) filed …
health care has become a big business. Writers are churning out books addressed to the increasingly health conscious society. Most of the books aim at educating public on the dos and don'ts on diet and various common illnesses. It discusses ways to prevent illness especially through controlling diet and food …
exposure to elevated levels of fine particles from automobiles for just two hours raises the likelihood of heart attack according to a recent study in the journal Circulation. Murray Mittleman, director of cardiovascular epidemiology at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, us , who led the study said previous studies …
We conducted the study described in this paper to investigate the impact of ambient temperature on mortality in the Netherlands during 1979-1997, the impact of heat waves and cold spells on mortality in particular, and the possibility of any heat wave- or cold spell-induced forward displacement of mortality. We found …
Patients who had smoked just before the onset of a heart attack had bigger blood clots in their coronary arteries than those who hadn't smoked. These are the results of a study conducted by a team headed by Murray A Mittleman, director of cardiovascular epidemiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital …
The residents of Vieques, a Puerto Rican island, have achieved a landmark victory in a long-standing dispute about the us navy's activities on their island. The us navy uses Vieques to provide training to battle groups. Donald H Rumsfeld, the us defence secretary, recently ordered the navy to call off …
if you suffer from respiratory problems, be cautioned: breathing polluted air could hospitalise you with heart disease and pulmonary disorders much quicker than you believe. A recent study at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, usa, shows that risk of hospital admissions for people suffering with cardiovascular problems …
Measuring the blood sugar level can help physicians predict if a patient is at the risk of developing heart disease. Blood glucose (sugar) might, like cholesterol and blood pressure, be used as an indicator of heart disease risk. This could help identify individuals at higher absolute risk of heart disease. …
research has shown that south Asians living in Canada have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular problems when compared to other ethnic races such as Chinese and Europeans. The cardiovascular problems taken into consideration included conditions such as angina, impairment of cardiac muscles, and prior cardiac surgery. Sonia Anand and …
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA, have developed a way to "grow' arteries that could save several heart patients' lives. The standard procedure till today is to replace diseased coronary arteries with minor arteries from elsewhere. But the test was to find the ones that was long …
A round of golf may be just what the doctor ordered for heart disease patients, a German study suggests. Heart disease patients need to strike a balance during exercise
Eating more whole grain foods can lower the risk of heart disease in women. Simin Liu and colleagues from the Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, analysed the medical histories of 75,521 women and found that compared with women in the lowest fifth of whole grain intake, women in the highest …
That eating black beans, peas and other legumes helps reduce the risk of heart disease was announced at the American Heart Association's just-concluded Annual Confe-rence on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. However, there is a catch. The heart protection effect was most striking in those who ate beans four or …
a large study of 90 cities in the us confirms the relationship between pm 10 - airborne particles smaller than 10 microgrammes in diameter - and total mortality linked with cardiovascular and respiratory deaths. The study, conducted jointly by the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and the Harvard …
it is available anywhere in the world, is inexpensive, easy to prepare and stimulating too. Now, research shows that apart from being a refreshing beverage, tea is also a health drink. At the recently-held India International Millennium Tea Conference in New Delhi, scientists and planters from across the world gathered …
researchers at the lds Hospital, John Hopkins University, and the Washington dc Hospital Center have unearthed new evidence that a number of infectious bugs - including hepatitis a and herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 - are strongly associated with heart attacks and cardiovascular death. In a major new …
It is a familiar experience for the tippler. You have one too many drinks, which include strong beers, and every thing turns fuzzy, the room begins to spin and soon you are flat on the floor. Though this is not unusual, there has not been a credible scientific explanation for …
TWO-THIRDS of people with diabetes have some form of heart or blood vessel disease. Such diabetics also tend to experience re-blockage of heart arteries following balloon angioplasty more often than patients who don't have diabetes do. Heart patients with diabetes are also more likely to have a heart attack within …
New research suggests that diminished pain perception may be a symptom of hypertension. Using mechanical, electrical and temperature stimulation, Christopher France, a psychologist at Ohio University in Athens, Greece, found that pain detection had, in fact, decreased in children of hypertensive parents. Although family history is used to predict the …
