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 …
Oriental food has the potential to guard against killer diseases like cancer and heart ailments. According to a top UK nutritionist, Helen Wiseman, oriental food is low on fat and rich in soya products, which are good at keeping these diseases at bay. It is reported that soya beans and …
Transmyocardial laser revascularisation (TMR), a new technique for creating channels in the left ventricular wall to improve blood supply to the damaged heart muscle, offers new hope to those suffering from heart disease. Heart patients who are unfit to undergo a coronary artery bypass graft or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, …
Why do some people suffering from hypertension get strokes while others do not? Researchers, for the first time, have obtained direct evidence of the existence of genes connected to strokes. Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, US, have identified the approximate location of three stroke-related genes in a …
it may be difficult, but not impossible to operate on a beating heart. Coronary bypass surgeries can now be conducted without using heart-lung machines. The thought that during the operation, survival depends upon a machine and the heart is temporarily stopped, makes a patient tense. But in future, this may …
Patients having heart diseases or those suffering from symptoms like recurrent rapid heart beat despite drug treatment, are now introduced to an electrical device -the defibrillator, manufactured by Guidant Corporation of Indianapolis, US. About the size of a cassette tape, it is implanted in the abdomen or chest and linked …
OLDER women can also enjoy good cardiac health if they opt for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after menopause, because the hormone alters the shape of the body giving the older women more younger and healthier figures. At the recently held European Congress on Obesity in Barcelona, Spain, an Australian endocrinologist …
People with high cholesterol can reduce the risk of a first time heart attack by 31 per cent and the risk or death by 22 per cent by takIng a widely prescribed drug tailed pravastatin sodium. This was the conclusion ofa landmark study in the UK -the West of Scotland …
MORE than 15 per cent of the deaths caused by heart attacks are due to delayed medical treatment. Now, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, has launched 'Mission Save Heart' in order to provide prompt treatment to the patient within the golden hour, which is the hour of …
THERE is less risk of developing coronary Heart diseases if vou lead the traditional Indian lifestyle oIf good food, joint farmly, morning players and good education. This was the message delivered at the end of a four year comparative study undertaken by IvIonilek Hospital and Research Centre (MHRC), Jaipur. The …
RECENT research conducted on the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has shown that a large proportion of the population living around the airport has developed serious respiratory complaints. A higher than average number of people suffer from stress and cardiac problems. It is suspected that there may also be …
DEPOSITS of cholesterol left untreated in one's blood vessels could mean death. There is also a chance that if the blood vessel is cleared by angioplasty, it would collapse at the post-operative stage. Angioplasty is a procedure wherein a tube having a balloon at its tip is guided to the …
ALTHOUGH the significance of Tegular exercising in low~ring blood pressure in persons with mild to moderate hyper- tension has been established by earlier studies, its relevance in relieving very severe hypertension has only recently been emphasised. Researchers at the 'Veterans Affairs Medical Centre in Washington in the us conducted studies …
Female nurses having irregular working hours for more than six years, are upto 70 per cent more prone to heart attacks than their male counterparts. This was revealed by Ichiro Kawachi and his colleagues at the Harvard Medical School, USA. Researchers attribute the hazards of this profession to the stress-related …
IF YOU are a heavy snorer, with bouts 0( stopped breathing during sleep, you could be putting your heart to increased risk of diseases. Researchers concluded recently that the seemingly harmless phenomenon of interruptions during sleep called apnea, plays an insidious role in causing heart diseases, in~luding congestive heart failure, …
WHEN grandpa could not recollect where he had kept his wristwatch, the kids started laughing. And grandpa was sad; who likes to be laughed at, especially by your son's sons? Grandpa did not know nor probably his doctors of yore, that the trouble had started long back in his midlife. …
DUTCH researchers recently came to conclude that balloon angioplasty and not laser, is more effective in removing blockages in blood vessels connected to the heart. The finding came after a three-year study comparing the two methods by Dutch researchers. Meanwhile, another study found that the technique could also help combat …
BETA carotene, the amazing vitamin found primarily in carrots and promoted as a preventive cure for both cancer and heart disease may not work wonders after all. Contrary, to popular beliefs, two studies financed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), US, reveal that beta carotene is completely ineffective in preventing …
• Indians living near the Myamnsr border face a high risk of contracting HIV virus, according to the latest report released by the Southeast Asian information Network recently. HIV infection rate among drug users is the highest in Manipur. • The minister of state for environment and forests, Rajesh Pilot, …
IT is known since long that high blood cholesterol levels could cause heart ailments. But recently, researchers report that its low levels could be bothersome too. Lower blood cholesterol levels have been held responsible for an increase in suicidal tendency and aggressive behaviour (Current Science, Vol 69, No 6). A …
INDIA, a frontrunner as far as the incidence of heart attacks is concerned, will have to import the technique of mending damaged hearts. The repair kit, called 'cellular bandage', meant to seal holes in the heart occuring after an attack, was recently developed by researchers in the us (New Scientist, …
