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 …
in a recent announcement, doctors at the Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre ( bhmrc ) said that they have been successful in employing a new non-surgical technique of treating patients suffering from heart diseases. The doctors have treated at least seven patients with the
ABOUT 27 per cent of the residents of Delhi, in the age group 35-64, are reportedly suffering from hypertension, or high blood pressure (BP). This could be an underestimate as, according to a study conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AHMS), New Delhi, only 51.9 per cent …
IN A desperate bid to combat Vhe spread of a fatal disease that has already claimed 14 lives 91thce April, Malaysia has sought help on the Internet. The health ministry has posted a notice on the Internet asking for help on the out-break of a disease suspected to be caused …
PASSIVE Smoking almost doubles the risk of heart attack in women, says a study published by the American Heart Association. The findings provide strong evidence in support of the hotly-debated claim that secondhand smoke poses a major health risk. The study suggests that there are as many as 60,000 deaths …
CONTRARY to the conventional wisdom that prevention is better than cure, here is a case where cure certainly outweighs the benefits of preventive measures. According to a study done at the Department of Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, us, 70 per cent of the overall decline in deaths in …
Indians are more prone to heart diseases according to a study done in the UK, which says that people from the subcontinent have narrow arteries. A cardiology team front Birmingham Hospital examined the angiograms of 27 patients from the subcontinent and compared them to 59 white patients. The average coronary …
A MINIMAL amount of iron is critical for our health and perhaps life itself. But what researchers are now concerned with relates to the indiscriminate loading of iron supplements as well as the widespread use of vitamin C, which enhances the absorption of dietary iron from the gut. Our bodies …
Teetotallers, who miss out the benefits of red wine need not lose heart. According to Normal Williams and his group from the Papworth Hospital near Cambridge, an alcohol-free powder of red wine is just as effective against heart disease by preventing the arteries from collecting deposits of the dangerous low …
V SREERAJ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM A team of researchers, including C R Santoshkumar, consultant haematologist at the Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), has been recently awarded a us patent for inventing a method for the determination of oxidised sulfuhydrl amino acids (osaa) in biological fluids like serum and cerebrospinal fluid. The other …
Though it is known that a person's pulse rate and blood pressure (BP) is often higher when measured in a doctor's clinic or a hospital, as compared to work or play, this phenomenon referred to as white-coat hypertension, has not received much attention. Some earlier studies have even suggested that …
a recent research now says that depression may be as dangerous as high cholesterol in giving you a heart attack. The new study by William W Eaton of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, in Baltimore, us, shows that those depressed were four times more likely to …
recently in Sonapur, Assam, heart surgeon Dhaniram Baruah and his team, including Jonathan Ho of Hong Kong, transplanted a pig's heart into Purno Saikia, a 32-year-old heart patient. Saikia survived for less than a week and fell to the grotesque experiment of an overambitious doctor. Saikia, a terminally-ill patient, would …
women who eat poorly before and during pregnancy have babies who grow up with a tendency to heart disease and stroke, according to David Barker and his colleagues at the Medical Research Council's Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, uk. Barker observes that the nutritional status of the mother during …
the much maligned chocolate can actually act as a powerful tool against heart attacks. Andrew L Waterhouse, Joseph R Shirley and Jennifer L Donovan from the department of viticulture and enology, University of California, Davis, us report that chocolate contains potent chemicals that neutralise substances directly implicated in coronary heart …
Diseased or damaged arteries can now be replaced by a material made of knitted polyester coated with fine layers of a fluoropolymer. The new material, fluoropassive, has been made by Glasgow (UK)-based Vascutek. The coating of the artery with fluoropolymer overcomes the risk of clotting which until now had prevented …
ANY new measure towards reducing cholesterol is welcome, particularly by people with high concentrations of serum and a history of heart ailments. But now, scientific evidence is fast surfacing that such measures may dictate the way you handle your emotions. Two recent studies suggest that low-fat diet may be driving …
Twenty seven-year-old Tokihiro Masao recently walked out of the hospital after his surgeons removed his right ventricle and atrium. As heart transplants are forbidden in Japan, such an operation was the only option to save the patients life. Defending this novel technique, Shunji Sano from the Okayama University Medical Department …
AT A recent meeting of the American Heart Association in New Orleans, researchers report that a safer and better alternative to aspirin has been manufactured to inhibit heart attacks and strokes. The new blood thinner called clopidogrel was tested by a Canadian team of researchers on more than 19,000 people …
some time back heart attacks were considered a problem of only advanced countries. Not any more. Countries like India are fast catching up with the developed countries. For example, in the United States the most frequent cause of death in men over 35 and women over 65 is cardiovascular disease. …
an unhealthy diet, unfavourable genes, excessive smoking and obesity are factors already known to cause heart ailments. There is now an addition to this list. Researchers say that viruses too can play an role in causing heart problems. A member of the herpes virus family, cmv had long been considered …
